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Ask HN: What's your best startup idea that you're not going to pursue?
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#112Since all the scandals about security, I came up with a different approach, instead to increase cryptography, just build kind of a reverse surveillance. A place like gravatar that informs you who is accessing to your profiles on your social media. The idea is very simple, you provide a jpg that can send back a message every time it's being rendered by a client. It can be that it requires a new image standard that allows to send some info to the main servers.
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#113Heroku for queue jobs. Pay by the minute. Basically I hate maintaining an AWS instance that is idle most of the time. And Heroku will only get you so far. It would probably be difficult to make profits on because you'd be charging slices of a penny at a time...
I've been thinking about something similar, an autoscaling job queue that could run off your own servers (via API) so you could decide the pricing/power you want.
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#114Github for travel planning. You can collaborate with your co-travelers on creating an itinerary but then like github you can fork other peoples completed itineraries and make them your own.
TripIt?
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#115An on-demand "Uber for babysitters" ... most of you shot it down but I still think it's a good idea https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7356497
I read somewhere that this is already been done, but I do not remember the startup name
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#116shazam for face recognition? Sometime when you see a movie, you can't make out who stars in it. take a quick picture and shazam it away to get the actor / actress name!
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd like to see a not for profit bank in the sense that the profit the bank does make, goes directly back into the local community surrounding the bank. The bank would have a physical presence but strong and modern on-line support.
It sounds like you're describing a credit union. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_union
That just validates the idea.
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#118A service for freelancers that automatically withdraws projected income tax and puts it into a safe money market fund so that they can make a little change on it (more in better times).
Automating this would be nice, but it's not that hard to do manually.
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#119A couple of years ago I proposed an idea for "AirBnB for self storage" on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Collaborative-Consumption/What-is-the-n... Still seems like a massive opportunity. $24 billion market in the US. Inconvenient locations (for many people). People have (collectively) a massive amount of under-utilized space. Not without its challenges but neither was AirBnB when it started.
Here's a list of self-storage startups
https://angel.co/self-storage
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#120Something a bit like Pocket app, except where the content is automatically summarized for you. I've made a naive summarizer that seems to get the job done for the summaries part: http://breue.com/summarizer I'm just not sure what the final product would look like or if there would be enough of a reason for people to prefer it over Pocket.
I'm probably an edge case user but I don't save stuff to Pocket because I want summaries of stories. I save them because I want access to the actual content.
For example, I do save articles I can just read. For that, a summary service would be great BUT that is true with or without Pocket. On the flipside, if I saw stuff like a blog post on technical code someone wrote about for something, more than likely I want to save that reference for later (true for a huge chunk of stuff I save or the type of things I save).
That said, I came across several people who have either worked on summarizers or talked about it but nothing seemed to have ever took off on those. I can't speak for others but in general I prefer to read content for myself.