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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by ape4 »

siruva07 wrote: post #4

I'm responsible for purchasing our computer equipment for our startup. Every time I make a purchase on our company (@MakeSpace) credit card, I have to remember to send an email to our accountants (record the purchase as an asset, depreciation for taxes, etc). More importantly, it's hard to keep track of what equipment was given to each employee. I imagine at a larger company this would be handled by an IT department,…

I'd like it if the buyer could add a note to credit card purchases - that show up in the monthly bill. PO number is the most obvious thing to add. But for your typical customer you might also want to add "lunch with mom" or anything.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by siruva07 »

ape4 wrote: post #11
siruva07 wrote: post #4

I'm responsible for purchasing our computer equipment for our startup. Every time I make a purchase on our company (@MakeSpace) credit card, I have to remember to send an email to our accountants (record the purchase as an asset, depreciation for taxes, etc). More importantly, it's hard to keep track of what equipment was given to each employee. I imagine at a larger company this would be handled by an IT department,…

I'd like it if the buyer could add a note to credit card purchases - that show up in the monthly bill. PO number is the most obvious thing to add. But for your typical customer you might also want to add "lunch with mom" or anything.

This is less about expense tracking than it is about actually keeping track of all the equipment we've purchased for our startup.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by karangoeluw »

wxm wrote: post #8
karangoeluw wrote: post #5

Ok I'll go first. It's an "Imgur for audio files". Now there's times when you record an audio and want to share it. What do you do? Uhh,, umm.... Yup. exactly. There's no reliable, easy-to-use app to share audio files (not music). So, this is a web/mobile app for easily uploading and sharing audio files, and playing them. I don't have a full plan laid out, but I'll work on it for sure. (If you'd like to be notified w…

In what way would it be different from SoundCloud? No fancy commenting? Anonymous uploads?

Yes. And a single use - upload and share. And SoundCloud is mostly for music, this is for random audio files only.

Also, I'd like to make the service free, ad free, and maybe add a very cheap pro option.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by siruva07 »

dsfreed wrote: post #9
siruva07 wrote: post #4

I'm responsible for purchasing our computer equipment for our startup. Every time I make a purchase on our company (@MakeSpace) credit card, I have to remember to send an email to our accountants (record the purchase as an asset, depreciation for taxes, etc). More importantly, it's hard to keep track of what equipment was given to each employee. I imagine at a larger company this would be handled by an IT department,…

I'm not positive, but perhaps expensify would suit your needs? https://www.expensify.com/

More along the lines of an application that would do inventory management:

http://www.businessbee.com/resources/technology/essential-el...

I've been googling but can't find anything

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by wingerlang »

karangoeluw wrote: post #5

Ok I'll go first. It's an "Imgur for audio files". Now there's times when you record an audio and want to share it. What do you do? Uhh,, umm.... Yup. exactly. There's no reliable, easy-to-use app to share audio files (not music). So, this is a web/mobile app for easily uploading and sharing audio files, and playing them. I don't have a full plan laid out, but I'll work on it for sure. (If you'd like to be notified w…

http://vocaroo.com/

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by vishaldpatel »

Here's one I've had for a little while: Say you're playing a sport with your friends. You're yelling at each other.. commands likes, "pass the ball here". Or if you're out playing paintball and trying to coordinate an attack - your sound, and your opponent's sound are both pretty important.

As far as I know, such use of voice does not exist in any game. Player's voice does not really interact with the environment. So, say someone says, "come to me!" through voice-chat.. you still have to look at the map to see where they actually are.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#17

Post by Buetol »

An anonymous and representative group discussion and voting system

Practical example: Attending a conf as a woman

- You want to ask questions during the talks but you are afraid that because you are a woman your answer will be "dumbed-down" or just different

- Also, the guy doing the talk would like to answer the best possible question (or a random one)

So, there can be a lot of solutions to this problem, here is mine:

- Every attendee get an anonymous account on discuss.confname.org

- So everyone can ask questions anonymously and also it's fair because everyone has only one account

Except, that I made up this example in 5 minutes. This problem is effectively on every possible group in the world. People would like to express their opinions inside the group without risking differentiation.

I tried to describe this idea and the implementation ( http://kioto.io ), but it's really hard to explain. So I'm just implementing a prototype right now to better explain this idea.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#19

Post by personlurking »

Just going to throw this one out there. I live in Lisbon, it's tourist-central (I'm from SF and I've never seen so many tourists). Since I see a ton of lost people every single day there should be a way to digitally leave comments on things and places and a free one-stop shop to find such info (like Wikitravel). This info, although having a central repository, should be pushed out to an app that connects to one's phone (in particular, GPS) so that when you need help with figuring out where you are, what statue you're standing in front of, etc, you can open the app and it tell you (no entering anything...only if you want to get to another location).

By entering what you want to do beforehand, the app would know where you are and have a list of places you said you want to go, and tell you how to get to the next closest place, or alert you if one on your list is about to close for the day. Perhaps each city version is done by locals and in case of bad actors, there can be a voting system so the right info goes to the top. Plus, there could be integration with Google Maps so you can see if you're going the right way.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#20

Post by karangoeluw »

wingerlang wrote: post #15
karangoeluw wrote: post #5

Ok I'll go first. It's an "Imgur for audio files". Now there's times when you record an audio and want to share it. What do you do? Uhh,, umm.... Yup. exactly. There's no reliable, easy-to-use app to share audio files (not music). So, this is a web/mobile app for easily uploading and sharing audio files, and playing them. I don't have a full plan laid out, but I'll work on it for sure. (If you'd like to be notified w…

http://vocaroo.com/

It's flash.

kthxbye

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