Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?

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Post by NateEag » Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 3:27 AM UTC

Iv wrote: post #170

NateEag wrote: post #30

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And if you could do that reliably, you should already be a billionaire from your many successful startups.

Success is 1% inspiration 99% perspiration. Being successful at business is a different skillset than having good technical ideas. The best idea in the world won't build you a sales force magically nor will it put into place a manufacturing chain for you.

Yes, agreed.

But if you can consistently predict whether an idea is "good", by definition you should be either hitting it out of the park consistently or getting massive returns on investments.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?

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Post by BlameKaneda » Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 2:21 PM UTC

When I'm bored, I occasionally find myself here: https://unawaz.github.io/stochastic-hill-climbing/tasks/

Unfortunately there isn't a way to submit anything.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?

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Post by dennisguse » Sat, Jan 11, 2020, 8:07 PM UTC

NateEag wrote: post #58

severine wrote: post #49

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Nice list! There are at least four Android GPS trackers in F-Droid: OpenTracks, RunnerUp, OSMTracker and TinyTravelTracker, maybe there's one less app you need to build! https://github.com/OpenTracksApp/OpenTracks https://github.com/jonasoreland/runnerup https://github.com/labexp/osmtracker-android/wiki https://github.com/redfish64/TinyTravelTracker

Thanks for the links! Some of these I'd seen before and I actually used OSMTracker to generate GPS traces of my walks for a while. OpenTracks looks like it might be closest to what I'd like. What I really want, though, is something that aggregates the data from a collection of GPS tracks to give me the big picture - basically a static site generator that takes a directory of GPS tracks as input. I've got a few tiny s…

OpenTracks has support for Bluetooth LE (but not ANT+).

OpenTracks also supports visualizing several tracks on one map (requires either OSMAnd~ or Maps.ME as no map feature is build into OpenTracks). Just select the recordings in the list and press the map button in the action bar.

For visualizing exported GPS tracks, you could use TheKarte: https://github.com/dennisguse/thekarte It is a standalone JS-application and can be scripted via the URL parameters.