Anything that recognizes and encourages the good behavior of people.
That would be... people, e.g. the Good Guy Greg and Good Girl Gina memes, you could I suppose do a RL version, GGG t-shirts with individual QR codes for up voting people.
Ask HN: What web services should exist that haven't been developed yet?
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Re: Ask HN: What web services should exist that haven't been developed yet?
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
This would be a great addition to a "Smart Toilet" where it analyzes your urine as well. Through wi-fi it uplaods the results to the website and checks if you have any health issues.
How is this not a thing? This should be a thing.
There's a kickstarter for that:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/uchek-universal-the-medica...
Re: Ask HN: What web services should exist that haven't been developed yet?
#23hemmingwaymaker.com. Makes long sentences short. An online de-obfuscator and English to English translator. Helps me finally read Finnegan's Wake and Of Grammatology.
slantrime.com. bends user provided words to make unlikely rhymes, with seed capital from slim shady.
Re: Ask HN: What web services should exist that haven't been developed yet?
#24A data ETL tool. Now that lots of companies are moving to MPP databases like Vertica, Redshift, Teradata, and Netezza, it's incredible that there is still no straighforward way to do so without extensive systems and data engineering experience. Every time a customer asks us to recommend a tool to do this, we are baffled that nobody has taken this on yet (and wonder if we should do it ourselves). The opportunity to bu…
We are building a generic ETL framework and would love to talk with you about this. My email is on my profile.