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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by sadfnjksdf »

While we're at it * :

Funding Monday - where everyone pitches to VC's in the same HN thread.

Trial Tuesday - where everyone provides a link to their demo in the same HN thread.

Writing Wednesday - where everyone writes an informative hacker-related topic on their blog and shares a link to it in the same HN thread.

Throwback Thursday - where people all share something informative about past experiences or past apps/etc. in the same HN thread.

Free Work Friday - where people request work to be done by volunteers to develop their product with a possible chance at employment at some future date all in the same HN thread.

* - with slight sarcasm

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by graham1776 »

Dark Ages: randomly shuts down all functionality of your phone, forcing human contact, at random 10-20 minute intervals , no more than a couple times a day.

Perhaps there is a machine learning aspect that learns when you are being anti social (ie playing Candy Crush for 3 hours straight) and is more likely to "dark age" you.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by pa5tabear »

bliker wrote: post #111
netcan wrote: post #19

Fix podcasts. I was helping someone set up her android phone for podcasts and noticed how problematic the whole process is. First, the android apps aren't very good. More problematic is the process of getting a feed into it. Sometimes searching by name works. Often it doesn't. Getting from podcast's website to the app is a problem. Discovery is also quite poor.

I am using http://www.shiftyjelly.com/pocketcasts . That is really amazing. And the discovery have not failed me yet.

Yup.

I switched from iOS 6 months ago and podcasting was one of the initial problems I had. I trialed a handful of apps before properly purchasing pocketcasts. As good as the iOS app.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by hershel »

Lack of eye contact in video chats greatly hurts the experience and is probably the source of the difference between it and face to face chat.

Using something based on [1] but a bit better(for example , let's you cover maximum screen area) could be a decent solution for this.

[1]http://hacknmod.com/hack/laptop-mod-eye-contact-video-chat/

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by Spittie »

gautamnarula wrote: post #126
Spittie wrote: post #89

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…

I created something similar to #1: http://millisay.com It hasn't really taken off, but I also haven't put much effort into promoting it. It still lacks a few features (I've been busy with other projects), but I really like the clean, simple design and a few people have posted some interesting stuff.

Nice :) One of my ideas about "tripcodes" was that eventually an user could upload a style-sheet to customize his blog, one could see all the post by a certain tripcode and could follow him (rss?).

I agree, I like the simple design. One problem (or maybe I'm just dumb): I've pressed the "New" button a bunch of times to post something New, and only after that I realized that I should have pushed "Sumbit" instead. Maybe rename it to "Recent"?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by justhw »

bliker wrote: post #111
netcan wrote: post #19

Fix podcasts. I was helping someone set up her android phone for podcasts and noticed how problematic the whole process is. First, the android apps aren't very good. More problematic is the process of getting a feed into it. Sometimes searching by name works. Often it doesn't. Getting from podcast's website to the app is a problem. Discovery is also quite poor.

I am using http://www.shiftyjelly.com/pocketcasts . That is really amazing. And the discovery have not failed me yet.

Seconded. Pocketcasts is amazing, especially the settings. For example I have have mine set to keep only latest 2 podcasts pershow, auto download on wifi, and auto delete those I've listened to. It's a well built app worth way above $3.99. Don't bother buying other podcast apps or even show apps like This American Life.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by nobrains »

carlio wrote: post #114

I'd love a "profiling firewall", so to speak. I hate it when tethering when iTunes downloads a 500mb update without telling me. In general, your Laptop has no idea that it's tethered and therefore data is more scarce than normal. Something that flips between "ok go for it" and "restrict these apps" would be nice, especially if it were automatic.

Yes. I haven't thought about laptops/desktops OSes yet, but atleast in phones I should be able to mark a WIFI connection as "treat-as-data-connection" so that the OS obeys the background data rules for the OS and the applications.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by callmeed »

theboywho wrote: post #137
callmeed wrote: post #76

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…

Just out of curiosity, isn't this already possible with the Google Calendar API?

I haven't looked that deep into the most recent version of G's calendar API. I don't think they have webhooks though.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by aBTCguy »

callmeed wrote: post #76

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…

i'm interested. any other devs want to collab? anon1@alumni.stanford.edu

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by sarreph »

pearjuice wrote: post #110
Spittie wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What I'd love to see is some kind of "meta" HN where all the ask HN, show HN and similar threads are posted. For two reasons: 1) those "meta" threads might gather to a different audience and 2) many people are more interested in normal threads, and many are interested in the meta. One could just go ahead and create a site for that, but obviously it wouldn't have the same traction as HN, and 99% of the value of HN is…

And one for bitcoin! And one for nodejs! And x, and y and z! You know what, let's put them in a subdirectory, like so: /h/bitcoin or /h/meta. And we call them sub-HNs! ...

Although a sub-HN approach sounds appealing at face-value, it's likely to fragment the site content a little too much.

One of the things I appreciate most about HN is its ability to act as a filter with single point of convergence. I'm not sure I'd want to sacrifice that (personally), probably nothing more than for 'fear of missing out'.

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