I like live shows. I would like a website that lists all the live shows in my area. Like "show me all shows at Shoreline". I haven't found a single site that tells me this.
Have you checked out bandsintown.com ?
Ask HN: Idea Sunday
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#212A solution for the "too many tabs open" problem. Need a way to save my history in an organized and interactive manner, with a nice looking UI. Sort of like the old WebMynd ( http://webmynd.com ). I find that most of my tabs are open as a form of reminder. If I close it, I'll forget it and might as well not have seen it. Same if I hide it away in some kind of bookmarking app. I think it would be best to apply a UI lay…
Maybe this? http://twin.gl/
Another tool for organizing on-line research is Zotero:
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#213A web API that consumes phone camera captured photos of nutritional labels, and spits back a structured JSON response of the data. Primary consumers would be developers who're building products that depend on the user inputting this type of data - or warehouse logistics companies who could catalog this sort of data and middleman it to everyone else.
The product should already have a UPC code that is trivial to capture. From there, it would be a simple matter of looking up that code to map it to its nutrition information. There may even be databases (eg: FDA) where this is available. MyFitnessPal seems to have the nutritional info on just about every product I've scanned, and I can't tell if they crowdsourced all that data input and/or if they seeded it with some database.
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#214A web API that consumes phone camera captured photos of nutritional labels, and spits back a structured JSON response of the data. Primary consumers would be developers who're building products that depend on the user inputting this type of data - or warehouse logistics companies who could catalog this sort of data and middleman it to everyone else.
This would make my idea for a mobile app that renders pictures of the sugar/salt/fat content in foods by OCRing the label a trivial problem, and it could lead to many other applications like a shopping assistant for diabetics, athletes, etc. https://assemblymade.com/golden-fleece
This was the startup I was CTO at. We organized peoples' whole diets and we used the barcodes rather than OCR to get the nutrition facts of labeled products.
The product recommended home-cooked meals (web-only), found the healthiest restaurant dishes near you (mobile and web), and evaluated the nutritional fit of labeled food products in stores (mobile-only). The recommendation algorithm was all backend.
Too bad we got acqui-hired.
I didn't follow the acqui-hire and went on to work for a genetics startup.
Email me if you want more info or to see about making it exist again. We had an alpha test group of some very happy users :)
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Well, that's okay, isn't it? It's the idea that counts, so the discussion will still occur. It doesn't matter that it is centred around your comment that came after mine. EDIT: Context for those who come after: Some other commenter said he downvoted my comment because he posted something similar. I assumed he said that to illustrate a flaw in my proposal and that he did not _actually_ downvote me. Since I can't find…
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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#216Downloadable sounds for electric cars. Electric cars must make noise under new EU rules: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26857743
That's an April's fool, right?
Cars that are so quiet you can't hear them are very dangerous for blind people trying to cross streets, for example.
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#217A solution for the "too many tabs open" problem. Need a way to save my history in an organized and interactive manner, with a nice looking UI. Sort of like the old WebMynd ( http://webmynd.com ). I find that most of my tabs are open as a form of reminder. If I close it, I'll forget it and might as well not have seen it. Same if I hide it away in some kind of bookmarking app. I think it would be best to apply a UI lay…
If you use Chrome, check out OneTab.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbo...
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#218Put a drain at the top of toilets to prevent overflows (like sinks already have)
And where exactly would it drain to? Your toilet's output is plugged, thus causing the overflow, remember?
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#219Office package for Internet and open source era. MS Office concept was good in 1990. Google Docs just replaced local drive with cloud drive.
Tools for developers are really good. IDEs and DVCS are pleasure to work with. But try to work on a spec, RfP, Offer, etc. with Word and Outlook. Online wikis are quite good but it is not possible to send them via email to a third party.
My idea for a text editor: * storage: wiki text files + embedded git repo * save all to a single file, but with possibility to access and edit the contents via web server / web app * possibility to squash all edits and send a clean copy (branch) as an attachment * possibility to incorporate changes sent back, thanks to DVCS * two edit modes: WYSIWYG and markdown style for experts * two client modes: standalone with thick client (based on Webkit) and html5 client * possibility to access and modify the contents via APIs (Java, Ruby, ...) * optimized for screens, not for A4 / US letter pages
You get the idea. Corporations would love something like this.
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#220A web API that consumes phone camera captured photos of nutritional labels, and spits back a structured JSON response of the data. Primary consumers would be developers who're building products that depend on the user inputting this type of data - or warehouse logistics companies who could catalog this sort of data and middleman it to everyone else.
Dibs. I'll start working on it. If anyone wants to help out, message me or email me karan[at]goel.im
Just be aware that they're proposing a change to the current format used in the United States. This post covers the proposed changes:
http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/uc...