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Ask HN: What's your best startup idea that you're not going to pursue?

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How would the store not lose money on them, though? They have to cost money, and customers will probably just keep them.

Stores can sell them. Offer discounts to people with the carts. They can be stylish and fashionable.

In Europe (I think Amsterdam?), beer bottles are often sold in plastic cartons that are then refunded when returned and reused. Could be handled like that.

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Github 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.

Sign up to HopOn's mailing list, I believe their product will work like this.

Http://hopon.com

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Identify damaged roofs via satellite imagery, match to addresses, and sell the list to roofers for marketing?

Aerial drone imaging? It would be much more accurate and give you better resolution. Downside is harder to scale.

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"Music Finder"

You open an app. You're played three different pieces of music. You're asked which one you like best. The program branches and plays you three more pieces of music. Again they're different but from a more similar selection.

At each point you can highlight bits of music to go back to - to buy that music or to start the chain from that point.

One example would have this tightly connected to one particular publisher's catalogue.

It would eventually teach about music, giving comprehensive sleeve notes about the composer or the piece of music or the history or music theory or etc.

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Identify damaged roofs via satellite imagery, match to addresses, and sell the list to roofers for marketing?

But satellite imagery can be several years old.

Is there a way to pay for more up to date imagery? Perhaps more populated areas are imaged more frequently?

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Identify damaged roofs via satellite imagery, match to addresses, and sell the list to roofers for marketing?

Aerial drone imaging? It would be much more accurate and give you better resolution. Downside is harder to scale.

Good point. Or the startup could just sell drones to roofers, with software to cover a neighborhood automatically.

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"Blind Lego Watchmaker" - lego biomorphs.

Dawkins' book "the Blind Watchmaker" introduced "biomorphs". These are intended to show the power of repeated random change and selection. He uses a small computer program to draw six images composed of lines. The user selects one and the program redraws another six images, making small changes based on the image the user choses. This is repeated many times.

The new version is pretty similar except it uses Lego pieces instead of lines.

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"Music Finder" You open an app. You're played three different pieces of music. You're asked which one you like best. The program branches and plays you three more pieces of music. Again they're different but from a more similar selection. At each point you can highlight bits of music to go back to - to buy that music or to start the chain from that point. One example would have this tightly connected to one particula…

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