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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by tadruj » Sun, Apr 13, 2014, 10:52 PM UTC

digisth wrote: post #215

A service that figures out how to create and deliver healthy (meaning not extremely salty, sugary, etc.), same-day-prepared, vegetarian-friendly meals for $10 USD per day or less. The service would make one or two dishes so that they can be prepared in batch (maybe one non-vegetarian, and one vegetarian), and deliver them at a predetermined time. The current services in this industry tend to cost a lot more than this…

If this would be a Kickstarter project right now, I would put a month worth of money on the table. Low salt, low sugar food you can't get anywhere.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by techstroke » Sun, Apr 13, 2014, 10:59 PM UTC

mudil wrote: post #212

Open source ad serving platform. Or P2P ad serving platform . Basically like Google Adsense minus Google, the middle man. I have a site, and every month I get a check from Google with a seemingly random amount. Yes, it is connected to traffic, but what cut Google makes is a complete mystery. In my opinion Google Adsense is an unfair scheme for millions of publishers.

Well, I have been a adsense publisher for over 5 years now and they are pretty clear about their commission rates they give us 68% for content ads - https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/180195?hl=en (earlier it was 70% i think )

and to me it's not unfair as even if someone was to make such a OS system , he still has to manage server cost/support/advertiser acquisition/marketing cost etc. & so wont be able to pay as good as adsense also the ads initially wont be that diverse & so ads might not be in context or even blank spaces , kind of chicken and egg problem !

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Apr 13, 2014, 11:02 PM UTC

kkoppenhaver wrote: post #134

Spittie wrote: post #89

Okay, a bunch of ideas. Probably nothing as good as my last one ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7542610 ), which was meh to begin with (but I'm happy to see that it sparkled a bit of interest). #1) An anonymous blogging platform. A site that obviously doesn't log you, and that allow you to publish posts without having them attached to an username. Since many would like to somehow post under the same handle, bu…

#2) Something like http://www.reddit.com/r/somebodymakethis ?

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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by bsilvereagle » Sun, Apr 13, 2014, 11:09 PM UTC

wdr1 wrote: post #191

crusso wrote: post #102

I'd like to see a site that focuses on the construction of logical arguments supporting various political and non-political views. I'd like for the system to allow for continued refinement of arguments on various topics and to allow for various branching of thought. That is, I'm not looking for a democracy that rewards majoritarian thought and punishes less popular but logically consistent argumentation. As an end pr…

What I've learned is that complex political issues -- essentially anything that isn't a universal "no-brainer" -- comes down to tradeoffs. In fact, I've found a good political test to see if the person I'm speaking to can articulate a valid criticism of their own position. I.e., if they're for universal healthcare can they state why one would oppose it, without calling into question the opposition's character. If the…

I use a similar methodology when teammates disagree on a design point, have them argue the other side. In nearly every case the dispute is settled.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by gregcohn » Sun, Apr 13, 2014, 11:13 PM UTC

callmeed wrote: post #76

Calendars & Events as a Service (aka "Stripe for Calendars") I'm sick of dealing with scheduled events, timezones, future background jobs, etc. in almost every app I build. I want a service with an elegant API and nice libraries that would let me: * Create multiple calendars (it would have an ID I could then save with my user model or whatever) * Add events to a calendar by just passing it a timestamp and other metad…

This is interesting. I had an idea a few years back that was a variation of this as a consumer/small business service, rather than a developer one.

The idea (roughly) was predicated on the belief that much information that needs to be communicated in the general sphere of "local" is in the form of calendar events. Everything from community meetings to wine tastings to school events, soccer games, carpool times, and so on, can be communicated in the form of calendar events and their metadata. So the concept was to do a clearinghouse for discovering and subscribing to events and event feeds (which would auto-update when changed and so on) that also made it easy for publishers of events to enter them in a single format (calendar feed, email-to-event, etc) and have them translated into whatever formats were preferred by the end-users.

EDIT: wondering if i just described Upcoming.org...

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by hikigo_wanders » Sun, Apr 13, 2014, 11:16 PM UTC

Spittie wrote: post #145

gautamnarula wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I created something similar to #1: http://millisay.com It hasn't really taken off, but I also haven't put much effort into promoting it. It still lacks a few features (I've been busy with other projects), but I really like the clean, simple design and a few people have posted some interesting stuff.

Nice :) One of my ideas about "tripcodes" was that eventually an user could upload a style-sheet to customize his blog, one could see all the post by a certain tripcode and could follow him (rss?). I agree, I like the simple design. One problem (or maybe I'm just dumb): I've pressed the "New" button a bunch of times to post something New, and only after that I realized that I should have pushed "Sumbit" instead. Mayb…

I knew nothing about tripcodes until now, thank you. Won't it be a drag to have to type in a tripcode each time you want to post something? Isn't it better to allow having a username and password, but hash whatever is displayed as an identifier on the screen to preserve anonymity?

I'll consider adding tripcodes to something similar I built. It's a bit of an experiment: http://hikigo.com

On spam, it's not anonymity that leads to spam. You get spam on sites that have username/passwords too, like HN. You can fight it in the usual ways any site fights spam.

(A note for HN moderators: your algorithm for detecting spam links automatically deletes a new post from a new user.)

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by fauria » Sun, Apr 13, 2014, 11:17 PM UTC

crusso wrote: post #102

I'd like to see a site that focuses on the construction of logical arguments supporting various political and non-political views. I'd like for the system to allow for continued refinement of arguments on various topics and to allow for various branching of thought. That is, I'm not looking for a democracy that rewards majoritarian thought and punishes less popular but logically consistent argumentation. As an end pr…

Illustrated: http://geniscarreras.com/philographics/

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by nandreev » Sun, Apr 13, 2014, 11:17 PM UTC

"Who's in town" app - it's difficult to keep track of where all my friends are at any given time, and many times I miss out on catching up with friends because I don't realize they're in the same city that I'm traveling to.

One could say something like the "location" field in chat programs deals with this, but hardly anyone keeps that current. In the past, I would blast a Facebook status of my new location and hope that people would notice - this sort of worked, but it was by no means perfect (and I have since deactivated my account there)

Essentially, you'd specify a whitelist of people you're willing to share your location schedule with, and the app would alert you if there's overlap.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by onnoonno » Sun, Apr 13, 2014, 11:28 PM UTC

digisth wrote: post #215

A service that figures out how to create and deliver healthy (meaning not extremely salty, sugary, etc.), same-day-prepared, vegetarian-friendly meals for $10 USD per day or less. The service would make one or two dishes so that they can be prepared in batch (maybe one non-vegetarian, and one vegetarian), and deliver them at a predetermined time. The current services in this industry tend to cost a lot more than this…

Not exactly the same, but when they started I found them to be impressive in delivery speed, Berkeley/Oakland: http://spoonrocket.com/

(I am not affiliated in any way)

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by k8si » Sun, Apr 13, 2014, 11:30 PM UTC

Social graph app for tracking gang activity on Twitter, with the intention of predicting potential violence before it happens on the streets. According to Vice/other sources, it's becoming increasingly popular for gangs to communicate publicly via Twitter and other social media sources. It's an interesting NLP problem because Twitter language is crazy and an interesting "computational social science" problem because it could actually help communities. You could partner with (or sell it to) municipal police departments.