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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by Schwolop »

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…

I made something like #1 a few years ago, but it never took off and I eventually grew bored of it. It's on Google App Engine and open source if anyone is interested to continue with it.

http://wikiblog.jugglethis.net

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by fiatjaf »

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…

for #2 I walways think about building a personal note-taking service for ideas, further developments of ideas and ideas that generate other ideas, in a tree-based structure.

It would work as a personal thing, but it would also do some similarity search and show ideas from other people that are similar to each of your ideas "near" them.

So, if you found the others' ideas useful, you could link the two and proceed from there. The other part would see their idea got linked by you and will come and check your idea, maybe establish contact, maybe not, maybe just ignore the linking and proceed working alone.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by Schwolop »

Detrus wrote: post #136
teemo_cute wrote: post #4

A while ago I was reading a blog post and I spotted a grammar error. The post was good but it made me a little uncomfortable. So I decided to make it right. I used chrome developer tools's edit html feature... I edited the html and behold the grammar error was gone. I read the paragraph again with pure delight. I love technology. Idea Generated: There are lots of blog posts out there that have good content, but somet…

Quora does this. It would just be hard to standardize across all the variations of publishing.

It doesn't provide the "Suggest Edits" feature for blog posts, only answers to questions. Until I discovered Quora, I was working on http://wikiblog.jugglethis.net/ which was my solution to this problem.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by fiatjaf »

d0m wrote: post #299

I have a hard time explaining this idea, so please bear with me. As a founder and hacker, I want to know how my users use my web and mobile apps. But I haven't found an intuitive and dead-simple way to do it. Mixpanel and google analytic are way more complex than what I have in mind. What I would like to have is more similar to Facebook, but instead of looking at my friends activity, I'd like to see what's happening…

I like it. It is like Mixpanel, the implementation on the page would be similar, but without data aggregation.

There are open-source Mixpanel-like backends out there, some will not come with a frontend full of charts, you should just get one of these and build a frontend full of feeds.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by mappum »

A mobile app that scans for unsecured WiFi and automatically sends the location to the service. People who want free WiFi can search and find the closest one.

It's sure to cause some legal/moral controversy, but it is pretty trivial to implement and might be pretty interesting.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by nileshtrivedi »

dkresge wrote: post #250
mhp wrote: post #95

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.

There was an article this week about how Intuit among others lobby to keep the tax code difficult.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by hashtag »

conorgil145 wrote: post #312

I don't expect this would be a company, but rather more of an open source project. I have been thinking about this for a while, so I'll throw it up to see if there is any interest. I would really like someone to create a website full of information and resources for first time startup employees regarding stock options. It would be great if there was a calculator which would allow you to experiment with different liqu…

Contrary to your statement about how it could be __surprisingly accurate__, it would in fact be the opposite. There is no accurate way to build a calculator to show different liquidity outcomes because there are way too many unknown variables if you understand how stocks actually work in a given company. Everything would have to be a complete guess in the dark for the employee punching in those numbers making it near impossible to get anything accurate, particularly early stage.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by mappum »

d0m wrote: post #297

Google map that can show me parking? I'm driving to a coffee place, great, but then it's 10min turning around the place looking for parking. Ideally it should drive me in real-time to a place where I can park.

Google could implement this very effectively when they have a couple self-driving cars going around each city scanning for empty parking spots.

Before then, you might have to do something hacky like user-submitted data.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by IanChiles »

jlgaddis wrote: post #201
Bootvis wrote: post #54

I had a small discussion about this idea[1] and I believe that it is worthwhile: Make private key based authentication useful for logging in to websites. I don't have the chops but introducing private key based auth as an extra can be very worthwhile for some users. So start there and improve the UI until your grandmother can use it. I believe the biggest hurdle will be private key management. The advantage of using…

You know client certificates can be used for this, right?

Having spend the last week or so working with client certificates, they could be so much more if browsers implemented a proper interface for managing them, or at least a much more intuitive one than they do at the moment. They work spectacularly for building closed APIs where you control both sides, however. They're just a bit tricky for the end user most of the time

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by f0nd004u »

mappum wrote: post #325

A mobile app that scans for unsecured WiFi and automatically sends the location to the service. People who want free WiFi can search and find the closest one. It's sure to cause some legal/moral controversy, but it is pretty trivial to implement and might be pretty interesting.

Heh. This is exactly what Google was doing with the StreetView vans, and a bunch of home users with open WiFi networks are successfully suing them for collecting their packets.
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