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

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#191

A service for freelancers that automatically withdraws projected income tax and puts it into a safe money market fund so that they can make a little change on it (more in better times).

The problem I have with this is that I end up using the gross take on projects to float my receivables. In theory your idea has merit, but in practice we all have cash flow challenges and the money I owe uncle sam can bridge those challenges for me.

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post #180

WeWillWalkYou - An online platform for volunteering to walk, visit, cook for, seniors. Trade time with a stranger's loved ones in your town, for the same for your folks back home.

It can be also repurposed as an idea for a dystopian novel :)

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Another one is predicting price rises and optimal time to sell Magic the Gathering cards before rotation. Its like the stockmarket only unregulated Gambling. People, do invest in these cards and flip them. Not for the faint of heart but people love to buy into dreams...

We could call it Magic the Gathering Online eXchange! Sounds totally good.

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Another one is predicting price rises and optimal time to sell Magic the Gathering cards before rotation. Its like the stockmarket only unregulated Gambling. People, do invest in these cards and flip them. Not for the faint of heart but people love to buy into dreams...

My friend and I kinda do this. We started 8-10 years ago when we were in high school. We pooled ~10k together to buy legacy staples. Since then we've bought some cards, but very minimal compared to legacy cards. We aim for the cards that will be useful post-rotation as many card sale sites do an okay job estimating release price. Also, we mostly played legacy. Snapcaster for instance was ~$25-30 on release (although…

As for the scaling up part, you could hire a student (or even a responsible high school kid) to do the buying part for you.

A friend of mine was a full time magic trader, and he hired a kid to sift through mountains of commons that he bought in bulk.

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An online-only bank (with ATM support of course) that lets you have as many "virtual" accounts as you want, and lets you set up programmatic rules for transferring money in between accounts on certain days/times, or triggered by events ("transfer $100 from B to A if account A goes below $100, and notify me by email"; "on overdraft from A, withdraw from B instead"). Then have a debit card that you can use to charge to…

Simple.com does this too!

I use Simple this way, even though their goals are meant for long term saving more so than budgeting, I use it for my 'envelope budgeting system'

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#197

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

In Arizona you could also do something for solar panels. Solar panel companies are always trying to sell panels, but they can't tell you right away (a) what size/shape panels you can fit on your roof and (b) how much energy you're likely to generate, and what that's worth. I bet if they could give us that info (and it came from an impartial 3rd party like your startup) specifically customized for my house, they'd hav…

I met a guy at solar city that does this.

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#199

How about a kickstarter kickstarter? It seems like you need a lot of money and experience to build a successful kickstarter? What if there's a different service where a person can put up an idea with minimal cost and flare, and just raise enough funding to hire a video team, PR team, etc to then run a kickstarter campaign?

But then how will I get the idea? I think we need kickstarterkickstarterkickerstarter.com. It literally just sends someone to your house and kicks you until you have a good idea.

Genius :-) Had a good laugh

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Location based anon social network. I am working on it.

One big issue will be local businesses making fake accounts and pushing ads

There is no "account" like thing. Its total anon, Open app and you are in.
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