Ask HN: Idea Sunday • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by rgbrgb » Sun, Apr 13, 2014, 6:35 PM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #10

omarhegazy wrote: post #8

A pay-to-post/view social discussion site. Reddit starts out cool, then slowly becomes 'dumber' (discussion-focused articles turn into quick reaction images) as it becomes more and more popular. Hacker News avoids this by purposefully not trying to be as popular as Reddit -- UI remains minimal, tries to stay out of search engines' ways, etc. But, in this way, HN is discussion focused through obscurity. What if you fi…

The best posters get compensated with the money that the voters paid. Any service that offers a significant monetary incentive to cheat it, will implode.

Adsense is pretty far from imploding.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by johndoeee » Sun, Apr 13, 2014, 6:37 PM UTC

Feedback for catered lunch at work.

I work for a small company and we get catered lunch delivered every day. They never ask about if we liked it and if the amount we received fit our consumption. So, some way to inform them about which dishes we liked and how much food we threw away.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by skullum » Sun, Apr 13, 2014, 6:37 PM UTC

Venmo Receipt bill splitter: Mobile app that analyzes a picture of a receipt using tesseract or something similar and allows the user to charge Venmo friends for certain items on the receipt.

I would pay for this because then I wouldn't have to create a Venmo payment for each user.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by danfrost » Sun, Apr 13, 2014, 6:38 PM UTC

netcan wrote: post #19

Fix podcasts. I was helping someone set up her android phone for podcasts and noticed how problematic the whole process is. First, the android apps aren't very good. More problematic is the process of getting a feed into it. Sometimes searching by name works. Often it doesn't. Getting from podcast's website to the app is a problem. Discovery is also quite poor.

I nearly worked on an idea like this 4 years ago. End-to-end podcasting which helps people make good quality, listenable podcasts. +1 from me

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by total » Sun, Apr 13, 2014, 6:39 PM UTC

teemo_cute wrote: post #4

A while ago I was reading a blog post and I spotted a grammar error. The post was good but it made me a little uncomfortable. So I decided to make it right. I used chrome developer tools's edit html feature... I edited the html and behold the grammar error was gone. I read the paragraph again with pure delight. I love technology. Idea Generated: There are lots of blog posts out there that have good content, but somet…

I'm actually rather fond of this idea. Far too often I read blog posts and the mistakes are glaring and plentiful. I understand that English is not everyone's first language and so it is acceptable, of course, but it sure does make reading jarring at times. I've always wanted a feature to correct people but without coming off as rude, overbearing, or overly concerned with semantics. (Please don't have any errors in this reply as I talk about correcting others. ;) .)

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by soneca » Sun, Apr 13, 2014, 6:41 PM UTC

A usability test of mobile apps delivered to consumers through ad space on free mobile games.

You create a "use quest" of your mobile app. One or more screenshots of your application with a stated goal - e.g. invite a friend on a social app. You present the user the home screen and he has to find where in your app he can invite his friends. You record all clicks, and time and etc until he finds it.

This test is served as "partners quest" on free mobile games. The gamer has to complete your "use quest" in order to continue playing that pool game. You pay the game producer a small fee and charge from the mobile apps developers that want to test their designs.

You may give the gamers more in-game bonus if he allows you to record his voice and face (and pay the game producer a little bit more for this feautre).

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by otisfunkmeyer » Sun, Apr 13, 2014, 6:41 PM UTC

teemo_cute wrote: post #4

A while ago I was reading a blog post and I spotted a grammar error. The post was good but it made me a little uncomfortable. So I decided to make it right. I used chrome developer tools's edit html feature... I edited the html and behold the grammar error was gone. I read the paragraph again with pure delight. I love technology. Idea Generated: There are lots of blog posts out there that have good content, but somet…

Pull requests for blog posts sounds amazing, at least theoretically :)

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by makmanalp » Sun, Apr 13, 2014, 6:42 PM UTC

danfrost wrote: post #16

Social Researching: Like social bookmarking, combined with joining comments so you can share and collaborate on your research. Think "trails" from V Bush's "As we may think" article, implemented so we can collaborate. As users start bookmarking things in their own trail, the app works out what other trails are similar and suggests you merge your researching efforts.

Google wave was great for almost this, actually, minus the matching / merging part! Sad to see it go.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by hershel » Sun, Apr 13, 2014, 6:43 PM UTC

Dynamic search anonimizer: most of the times google's personalized search is much better than anonimized search services like duckduckgo. But in certain query types anonimized search is highly preferable.

What about a service/browser extension that understands thoses difference and guide the search accordingly ?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by Thiz » Sun, Apr 13, 2014, 6:43 PM UTC

Soylent bars.*

I like the idea of Soylent as a complete food, but instead of a nutritional drink, I believe a power bar would be a better idea, for portability, storage, and consumption.

* Not tech related.