Commitment device app that works on a dead man's switch. The idea is to use the discipline you have now to discipline your future self. eg1 - Enter your weight every month. If you go over a predetermined weight, it does something punitive. Posts embarrassing pictures online, emails your mom, donates $50 to the Klu klux Klan. eg2 Create a todo list with due dates, goals or somesuch. Failing to complete them does somet…
Huge thank you to everyone pointing out Beeminder (I'm a cofounder).
Commitment device app that works on a dead man's switch. The idea is to use the discipline you have now to discipline your future self. eg1 - Enter your weight every month. If you go over a predetermined weight, it does something punitive. Posts embarrassing pictures online, emails your mom, donates $50 to the Klu klux Klan. eg2 Create a todo list with due dates, goals or somesuch. Failing to complete them does somet…
Beeminder, as others have mentioned, handles #1 and #3 pretty well (minus the donation to the KKK part - the money for failing goes to Beeminder).
I built GTBee[1] using the Beeminder API which is pretty much #2. Again, the punitive thing is taking your money, starting at $5 and escalating from there.
This isn't to say that it wouldn't be a fun project to build things that do this though!
I'd like a service that allows me to write internet-connected scripts that can be scheduled or executed on demand via webhooks. I have a bunch of things I want to do (like monitor a site for example) without messing around with servers.
To take it even further these scripts can come with their own store (just a simple key-value will do the trick), exposed over an API with a private key.
I want a batch notification service. Every 15/30/60/90/configurable minutes (or on request), the service would ping all my communication channels and give me a summary on a page or to a mobile app. I don't have notifications for email/social media because I don't want the interruption but, during downtime, I find myself checking through all the different services I use to see what's outstanding. I don't need the app…
I wrote something to bundle "alerts". It was a node application which would receive updates via HTTP-posts. From there they would be injected into a redis queue, and fanned out to email (daily), a simple HTTP web-page, and xmpp. It wasn't hard to setup the core. The hard part was pushing notifications into it. I suspect you might have the same problem. Writing a deamon to stream twitter and POST items matching a rege…
I don't know that batching the alerts would solve the problem, I want to be able to ping these services to determine unread counts at that point in time. I'm, of course, just assuming that these are available via API from the services I use.
Actually they do in v3 https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/v3/push
Does it allow you to create Calendar as a data object whenever you want to create one or is it just one calendar associated with one google account ? Because what if I don't want to create google account for my users , just get the calendar functionality.
You can create multiple calendars but they are always associated with a user's google account. You don't want Stripe for calendars, but rather Balanced for calendars. A whitelabel calendar API where you user's dont have to sign up for another service in order to use yours. Correct?
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…
Check out http://idebate.org/debatabase I knew it as debatepedia a while ago. Choose a topic and click on a subtopic. The old version had a argument map style debates. There is already a mention of argument maps in one of the comments which is another great tool.
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…
Does Sprig or Spoonrocket or the other alternatives not deliver healthy food? I believe they have a vegetarian option.
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…
I was listening to NPR a few months ago and they actually had a bit on tracking Twitter for gang activity and the ethics behind scanning twitter. Here's a link to the story [1]. One of the products they outline is called BlueJay [2] and scans for key words and locations. I guess NPR isn't popular among gang members or they would probably stop.
A site to organize systems. There are plenty of "List of frontend development tools" or "list of git tools". I want a site where users can build lists, share them, vote on them, categorize the content and update it with the new tools. alternativeto.net is a partial attempt at doing that but it doesn't take a systems thinking approach
Sounds like squidoo, but I don't think anyone uses them anymore.
Open source US tax filing application. Basically TurboTax but free.
Why can't the government just send me a bill? If they're able to detect that I've slighted them, they sure as hell have a reasonable idea of what I owe.