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Ask HN: Idea Sunday
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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#192Build a company around creating a best in class development environment that they can sell to other tech companies. This would involve everything from repository management (on top of git) to build & compilation tooling to automated testing and probably more than that eventually. Once companies reach a certain scale they inevitably expend some of their resources on building internal development tools. At Foursquare w…
Hmm, would Atlassian count?
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#193A file naming convention (lightweight markup) that would allow us to store structured (meta)data right inside file names. Obviously inspired by Markdown and CSV. We could then build lean, database-less asset management applications, while the user data (i.e. the files and their metadata) would always be portable, across platforms. Take for example: J.M.W. Turner | Rain, Steam and Speed | ···· 1844.jpg W. Blake ···· |…
MetaData is already built-in to most modern file systems. On OSX (HFS Plus) you have the xattr command, and there are things for ext2, ext3, XFS, ReiserFS...
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#194A major pain point in my life is house maintenance and repair. I really miss having a (good) landlord. That's what I want - a single point of contact to manage the upkeep of and fix any issues related to my home. There's so much friction in the process of finding the various contractors needed to keep a home in good order. First you have to search on craigslist, angieslist, or google for contractors that service your…
This sounds very attractive to me as someone who just discovered my lawnmower won't start, a tree died over the winter, and 3 sprinklers are busted. I don't have time currently to deal with it.
Could it operate like Uber in a way? This service would attract a lot of handy/service men looking for work. It definitely would need a review system.
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#195A major pain point in my life is house maintenance and repair. I really miss having a (good) landlord. That's what I want - a single point of contact to manage the upkeep of and fix any issues related to my home. There's so much friction in the process of finding the various contractors needed to keep a home in good order. First you have to search on craigslist, angieslist, or google for contractors that service your…
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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#196A file naming convention (lightweight markup) that would allow us to store structured (meta)data right inside file names. Obviously inspired by Markdown and CSV. We could then build lean, database-less asset management applications, while the user data (i.e. the files and their metadata) would always be portable, across platforms. Take for example: J.M.W. Turner | Rain, Steam and Speed | ···· 1844.jpg W. Blake ···· |…
+1 to this idea. Organizing photos, I would like to impart date taken, location, and context (e.g., 2014-04-29; San Francisco, CA (or geolocation); "California trip"). And I'm sure other people would love other types of metadata associated with photos. And that's just image files... plenty of other metadata-needy situations (e.g., the receipts you mentioned; I have a similar problem too).
You can just put this in the EXIF data block of the image. File explorers like Windows Explorer show this meta data just like any other meta data about the file like file size.
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#197A major pain point in my life is house maintenance and repair. I really miss having a (good) landlord. That's what I want - a single point of contact to manage the upkeep of and fix any issues related to my home. There's so much friction in the process of finding the various contractors needed to keep a home in good order. First you have to search on craigslist, angieslist, or google for contractors that service your…
homejoy.com & handybook.com (and others) could head in this direction?
I agree that this is an idea worth pursuing.
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#198I've been sitting on this gem for a while. I present to you: The Bruce Wayne Gap Year. Wealthy people with desires to become Batman can more-or-less do so. First they sign a waiver and an NDA, removing any liability from the Bruce Wayne Gap Year company. Then they'll pay the company tens of thousands of dollars to pay for what is to come. They'll be put into a real criminal gang [1], and taken around the world gettin…
This has potential , especially if you do it with the Matrix .
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#199I've been sitting on this gem for a while. I present to you: The Bruce Wayne Gap Year. Wealthy people with desires to become Batman can more-or-less do so. First they sign a waiver and an NDA, removing any liability from the Bruce Wayne Gap Year company. Then they'll pay the company tens of thousands of dollars to pay for what is to come. They'll be put into a real criminal gang [1], and taken around the world gettin…
You also basically described the movie The Game (with Michael Douglas). If you haven't seen it I suggest you check it out. I always thought this was a cool idea. I'd imagine this couldn't effectively be done for less than a couple hundred thousand considering the number of people who would have to be working on this full time.
Great movie recommendation, thanks!
As for the full-time-ness? Yeah, totally. I think there's something to be said for big, serious roleplaying games which effectively can take up your entire life for a certain amount of time, and I think a lot of people would do it.
In some scenarios, it could be cheaper to do since you could involve multiple people in the same experience.
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is the only service in this space I could find: https://starthq.com/apps/crondash It doesn't actually run the job but could be used to trigger them. I think the idea could work if you could write the tasks as snippets of JS, think IFTT/Zapier but with a code editor.
Yes! Well said. It would definitely need to include: * Web code editor for jobs (JS, Python, Ruby, Perl, Go, etc., etc.) * Results served over an authenticated API (e.g., servicename.com/api/ / /files/result.csv would get you the latest result.csv file generated by your script, .../ /20140419/files/result.csv would get you yesterday's, etc.) * Jobs could probably be both scheduled (i.e., cron-like) or triggered via a…
Might make sense to stick with JS to start with for the sake of simplicity.
I actually wrote a Node.js PaaS that I never open sourced & periodic short lived jobs was one of my use-cases.
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