Social analytics. The idea is that you can keep track of multiple facebook fan pages/twitter accounts and see how they grow over time. How many followers overtime, how many links, ect.. You may want to see other info like from what countries the likes, follows are from. Something very simple that just keeps track of your analytics and displays a nice chart.
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#212Hey, I created a little meteor app today just for this. http://thoughts.meteor.com/
Nice!
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#213I really want a nice wysiwyg markdown editor. Not the two column layout. I want syntax highlighting, but it should not only do colors but also semantics. Headings should be actually bigger and italics slanted.
I tried and failed to make this idea a reality. I got to partial solution using regular expressions. But it is far from functional and reliable but it is only like 200 lines!
You can check it out here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/52646091/syntax/selectio...
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#214Sell anything in a snap. 1. Find something you want to sell 2. Snap a picture (or a short video) 3. Tap "list for sale" 4. Let mechanical turk + computer vision identify the object 5. Let the system pick a value (based on sales history, location, demand) 6. Contact the seller when a serious buyer made a deposit 7. Proceed to demo + sale I shouldn't have to write down any spec when selling something as ubiquitous as a…
I love this idea because I think this is a huge win-win for both buyers, sellers, and efficiency (more stuff gets used, less gets tossed).
As the comments have pointed out the difficulty is accurately identifying items.
With used books you don't have that problem because every book has an ISBN number so you can easily identify any book. That's enabled a robust used book market.
So maybe the business isn't the end product, maybe the business is an intermediate step, the equivalent to ISBN numbers for everything.
The business I'm thinking of is QR tags for everything. The QR code allows the owner to simply scan the QR code when they want to sell their stuff.
You'd have to work with OEMs. The pitch to the OEMs is that a QR code that allows the item to be identified and easily resold enhances the resale value, thus enhancing the initial value of the item.
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#215Web filter. I love F1 and there is a race today, so I can't look at 99% of the internet as they will show the result. I will watch the race later when the kids have gone to bed. This problem is so big that i have to avoid facebook becaue they also show trending news. So a filter that filters F1 or any selectable sports news. Then when i turn it off after watching the race the filter shows me a list of what news it fo…
I have exactly the same dilemma (but because I download the coverage from back home in the UK rather than suffer the terrible American coverage) . I thought about building a proxy but simple name-blocking is too broad given names like "Button", and some headlines don't contain other easily matched patterns like "grand prix". EG "Button wins thrilling battle" or "Williams duo take epic one-two"
Is our coverage really that bad? Afaik we all watch the same feed so I guess it's down to commentary? I like Hobbs, cool old racer. Will Buxton on the other hand...
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#216Chores service.
For $X, we will come and do Y chores, quickly and professionally, relatively flat rate. Y job is a typical household chore.
Particular pain point: cleaning the litterbox. I don't really like it, so it gets delayed a bit more than it should. Garbage can be a pain when the apartment building is poorly laid out.
I don't mean a maid or cleaning service. If I lived in a house, I'd want someone for random house maintenance tasks.
I'm half-tempted to do this where I live - I live near both a university and a fairly well-off suburb. Pretty sure a freshman would appreciate odd-job work not far from campus.
The catch is that I don't really have time to deal with bonding, insurance, payroll, workman's comp, etc, etc. Someone with 10-20K, familiarity with the process, lots of flex time over the next 4-6 months (when your help gets sick, YOU get to do it. =) ), and a yen for business could probably make a tidy income from it.
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#217A 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.
plowz.com is another one. Lots of service providers already being prescreened. Could help that part of the process.
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#218I really want a nice wysiwyg markdown editor. Not the two column layout. I want syntax highlighting, but it should not only do colors but also semantics. Headings should be actually bigger and italics slanted. I tried and failed to make this idea a reality. I got to partial solution using regular expressions. But it is far from functional and reliable but it is only like 200 lines! You can check it out here: https://…
Something like what http://hackpad.com uses? Or something like http://stackedit.io (maybe this is the kind of two-column layout you don't want)?
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#219A 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…
I really like this idea. It would be great for renters, too, if the services could be opted for a-la carte at a slightly higher rate. For instance, in Boston, I needed someone to help bring over an in-window air conditioner from a friend's apartment and install it properly in a window. I had to spend the better part of an hour vetting different Yelp-style contractor sites, several actual contractors, and calling a fe…
Don't forget that at a certain point of client & services, the company will need to be getting bonded contractors.
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#220A 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 ···· |…
I like this. I've often had a similar issue in computational physics when handling lots of different calculation input/output files with variations in parameters. I've tended to automatically generate directory hierarchies, e.g. rc=1.0/ecut=60/kp=4,4,4/ rc=1.0/ecut=80/kp=4,4,4/ rc=2.0/ecut=60/kp=4,4,4/ rc=2.0/ecut=80/kp=4,4,4/ but some standard way of expressing it in the file name would be great, and nicer to parse…
Take a look at hdf5.