I'm currently building a web app I'd like to sell as self hosted. Something that would be great for me is a service that handles payment and license generation for this type of software. Things like supporting purchase orders and quotes would be useful too.
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#282kickstarter for promoted tweets:
- a site where one posts a tweet for a cause they're passionate about: "Bring back Firefly for another season #FlyAgain" - others can donate $ to have adequate funds to promote the tweet on twitter
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#283Open source US tax filing application. Basically TurboTax but free.
sites like freetaxusa.com do taxes very well, and are free in most cases and extremely cheap for the services it does charge for from an end user perspective, if it's already free then being OS doesn't really add any value
Strongly disagree. Its not like TurboTax hasn't offered free options in the past. There are several reasons why an open source version is preferable.
Off the top of my head... Extendability, extra features and integrations, community updates, etc... __It depends on who the end user is__
If you're referring to the common user, probably not. But I don't believe thats what OP was suggesting. I'd be within the target audience who would want an open source version.
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#284A 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…
Money is not the solution. Reputation is.
People are not currently penalized for contradicting themselves, being dishonest, being thoughtless. But they soon will.
Let's cure the web's Alzheimer.
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#285Debugging as a service: parse out the error logs and find a better way to traverse/debug application-level problems. Automatically create tests with few clicks, automate debugging/testing process.
Create standards for error handling, and create application scores to determine quality of the application.
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#286Calendars & 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 definitely something I would use. I hate messing with date/time. Timezones, zillions of different date formats, etc. all make dates and times a pain. A slick "Stripe-like" way to handle all of that would be awesome.
I'm considering building something like this. Just to be clear, is converting user input into timestamps part of the problem (and if so, do libraries like http://momentjs.com address it)? Or are you strictly referring to the scheduling aspect of it?
Is this something you would pay for? How much?
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#287A programming language equivalence site that helps you transition from one language to another. I mean it does not have to be perfect because full equivalence don't exist for many languages but just how you would do similar things.
http://hyperpolyglot.org/ ?
yea somewhere in that area but where you can chose any language to any language
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#288SocialPower: Complain about a bad service in a store by adding in the map the location of it. After that other customers of the store receive notifications to vote if the complain is valid (by using background location and push). If many users backup the complain, then the business gets an e-mail stating that they have been featured in SocialComplaint and they can work to solve the problem. The complains are alive fo…
This idea reminds me a bit of PublikDemand[0]. According to their site, they "aggregate and organize customer complaints by topic and company. Individual complaints are turned into qualified leads for competitors." [0]: http://www.publikdemand.com/
I was thinking more as a mobile reporting platform.
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#289I'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…
I appreciate the idea, but it needs some reworking.
In particular, I see two big flaws.
(1) The essence of the use of this site would be that one chooses a position, and then finds arguments to support it. In other words, "I've made up my mind; now show me why I'm right."
Now suppose I'm the person discussing an issue with you. Why should I pay any attention to some page chosen based largely on the assumption that I'm wrong?
(2) You say "... I'm not looking for a democracy that rewards majoritarian thought and punishes less popular ...." And then you apparently want to use something along the lines of up/down voting to judge arguments. That's not the way to get what you say you want.
In short, the idea, as stated, strikes me mostly as a tool for increasing polarization.
More beneficial would be a site that simply provides information to help make decisions on whatever issues are of interest. To go with the gun-control example, you could have links to -- or summaries of -- studies on the effect of gun control. You could have comparative data on rates of various crimes in locations with different gun laws. Etc.
How do deal with (2) is a harder problem. The plague of voting-based-on-agreement that makes sites like HN & Reddit so much worse than they could be, is something I wish more people were trying to address.
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#290I continue to update this over time: https://github.com/samelawrence/ideas