Using Google's reverse image search for naming a folder containing pictures downloaded from the internet. Removing watermarks or finding better resolutions if possible.
Removing watermarks? Why would you want to do that?
Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?
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#142A decent solution for adding to / viewing Org-mode files on iOS.
MobileOrg is abandoned and was super clunky for editing. Currently I use IFTTT do note to append to a txt file in Dropbox which is re-filed later using a python script, but it's hacky..
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#143A fully open source business workflow engine, pre-built with a great UI for the users to execute the workflow. Mobile friendly is a definite plus. Almost all government software are essentially workflow engines. This would instantaneously solve loads of problems.
Like Yahoo pipes for business data? That sounds fun to build..
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#144Implement wikipedia as a Web 3.0 aka decentralized service using technologies like IPFS.
To show that this kind of setup can be cheaper than what they are running on today.
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#145A single IM platform through which everyone can talk to everyone regardless of their IM service, and I mean I wanna be able to send a message to someone's iMessage from my Battle.net account, and then receive someone's Facebook message on my Slack or something. Obviously IDK how this would be possible, but IM is now broken beyond repair by companies that tried to "fix" it. The list of IM apps on my iPhone keeps growi…
On my windows phone 7 I was able to seamlessly message my friend via text or Skype or Facebook message, all in the same conversation thread, which was searchable. and when going on his page see his Facebook and twitter updates in one page.
From Wikipedia:
> Windows Phone 7's messaging system is organized into "threads". This allows a conversation with a person to be held through multiple platforms (such as Windows Live Messenger, Facebook messaging, or SMS within a single thread, dynamically switching between services depending on availability
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#146A stack for building web applications in the browser. HTML and CSS are pretty good for documents, but terrible for in-browser GUI apps that we're all building, its just piles of hacks upon hacks. I want someone, probably Google since they own both a major browser and some of the most popular web applications, to re-invent the entire stack. Steal ideas from GUI-focused languages and toolkits, like QML, Swift, AppKit,…
That's what I understood Microsoft Gazelle[1] to be. I remember a blurb about it in 2009, I was very excited about the idea, but since then I haven't seen or heard anything.
[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-mul...
Re: Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?
#147A fully open source business workflow engine, pre-built with a great UI for the users to execute the workflow. Mobile friendly is a definite plus. Almost all government software are essentially workflow engines. This would instantaneously solve loads of problems.
It's not open source but I've enjoyed working with it, Microsoft Workflow: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee342461.aspx
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#148I would love and use a fastlane-like tool for google apps. Tired or setting up google groups for mailing lists and adding users to them manually. I've wrote bunch of scripts some years ago, but I'd love more complete and "proper" solution.
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#149I wish someone would build "Thunderbird" as a chrome application... Right now, there's not really a good multi-site email applciation... even if it were limited to IMAP, or on-server. Not sure what the limits on localStorage or indexedDB are for chrome apps. Would be happy if it stored the credentials online somehow allowing me to use it wherever. That's what I'd like to see, though I get most of what I need with web…
I think I read somewhere recently that Google is going to kill off chrome apps. Can anyone confirm?
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#150Better reviews of everything. Solve (or ameliorate) the trust and incentivisation problem. It's stunning that something simple and non-optimal like Wirecutter is such an improvement, at least in the area of consumer electronics.