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cron as a service...but unlike setcronjob.com and easycron.com, allow more than a few thousand jobs and in general support advanced job scheduling features. So actually more like quartz as a service , i.e. hosted http://quartz-scheduler.org/
Something to help teams rotate passwords on regular intervals. E.g. I want everyone to rotate their Heroku/Google Apps/Github/etc. passwords every 6 months, or maybe after a major security event (like Heartbleed). Right now it means sending out a Google Doc for everyone to check off. Bonus points if it has some way of verifying that passwords were actually changed and the new password is strong.
It seems like the tools for discovering and rating charities are well developed, but the tools for allowing them to collaborate and provide help are non existent. This causes a lot of duplication of effort. Someone who needs help should be able to fill out a survey detailing their needs, and then their profile would be available to any charity.
This would allow a more holistic approach to giving; A single parent who gets tuition assistance might also benefit from free babysitting or help with meals, which are probably provided by two different groups. Social workers would be able to assemble a variety of different forms of help for each recipient, and the program could automatically suggest donor/recipient matches.
Okay, a bunch of ideas. Probably nothing as good as my last one ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7542610 ), which was meh to begin with (but I'm happy to see that it sparkled a bit of interest). #1) An anonymous blogging platform. A site that obviously doesn't log you, and that allow you to publish posts without having them attached to an username. Since many would like to somehow post under the same handle, bu…
Offline navigation map for mobile. Small thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7171919 The entire OpenStreetMap dataset is 23 GiB with moderate compression. With some optimization/truncuation the whole world should fit comfortably on most phones. This is very useful, for the times you're lost with a slow connection, no connection, in a foreign country, or with roaming charges. Also it's a fun algorithm-he…
A while ago I was reading a blog post and I spotted a grammar error. The post was good but it made me a little uncomfortable. So I decided to make it right. I used chrome developer tools's edit html feature... I edited the html and behold the grammar error was gone. I read the paragraph again with pure delight. I love technology. Idea Generated: There are lots of blog posts out there that have good content, but somet…
Calendars & Events as a Service (aka "Stripe for Calendars") I'm sick of dealing with scheduled events, timezones, future background jobs, etc. in almost every app I build. I want a service with an elegant API and nice libraries that would let me: * Create multiple calendars (it would have an ID I could then save with my user model or whatever) * Add events to a calendar by just passing it a timestamp and other metad…
A subscription service for open source projects. As a company I would pay you monthly and get access to bug and features development for all the open source dependencies that I am using. The more I pay the more things I can get done in a month. If a feature is too big for my budget I can accumulate month to month value on a ticket or get other companies to participate.
Commitment device app that works on a dead man's switch. The idea is to use the discipline you have now to discipline your future self. eg1 - Enter your weight every month. If you go over a predetermined weight, it does something punitive. Posts embarrassing pictures online, emails your mom, donates $50 to the Klu klux Klan. eg2 Create a todo list with due dates, goals or somesuch. Failing to complete them does somet…
I think the problem with previous attempts at this focuses on accomplishing computation on the client side. I believe it is possible to set up a framework where the client passes CAD messages to the server and the server returns the appropriate WebGL object for the client to render.
I've been playing with this idea for a while but I've been struggling on how to execute such a project. I think the Blender Python module would make a great CAD engine. However, I've yet to figure out how to rebundle Bpy such that anyone can simply import it and use as a python library.