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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by Jonovono »

lukasm wrote: post #46

Spotify released iOS SDK. Can someone make an app that will just have one button? Just play the goddamn music. I think Spotify works on the wrong level of abstraction. It should work exactly like a radio. Many people just want to listen some good music for running, relaxing etc. They couldn't care less about following artists and making playlists. Also, I'd like to be able to play it while I'm on a train. Pre-fech 30…

Check out http://molli.es! I made this only for EDM music right now, but ya I just wanted the very basic site that plays music, and trying to bring back visualisations. Miss those from the Winamp days!

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by d0m »

Jonovono wrote: post #316
d0m wrote: post #269

Idea: Airbnb for food. An app where you buy meals cooked by your neighbors. I see two big trends these days. 1) People seems more willing to connect back with their neighbors and community. 2) People have less time but want to eat more healthy. Imagine this scenario: While going back home, a student could check on the app what's available to eat for tonight. Next to his place, there's a family willing to sell the ext…

hah. I am surprised you have not heard of any of these!! http://www.quora.com/Food-Tech-Startups/What-companies-are-d...

Ha, yes well, I guess "Airbnb for food" might not be the best explanation then.

The pain point I was focusing on was to provide good food at cheap price for neighbors, less about "Living an experience with another family".

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Post by chaser7016 »

JonnieCache wrote: post #296
peterwwillis wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Two issues: distribution and synchronization. First off, you must either have all clients have a full copy of the song, or have a remote site with the full song available for seeking-and-streaming. If you stream it, you have to be able to seek to the position in the song that everyone else is at so you can add more devices dynamically. You couldn't just stream whatever your phone is listening to (e.g. pandora) becaus…

It's much worse than that: if the soundwaves from all the different stereos aren't at least roughly phase-aligned, it's going to sound pretty bad. When working with installed soundsystems engineers typically apply sub-millisecond delays on each channel. Touring setups don't always do this stuff, but they're working with a few dozen speakers from the same manufacturer, not many assorted stereos. Still, it would be a l…

Looks like someone got this working using various smartphones http://vimeo.com/71647538

FM radios though just might sound better.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by Jonovono »

Eleutheria wrote: post #105

Open University. A massive repository of all books needed for any career. No teachers, no videos, no homework, nothing, just the books, free, forever.

Yes! Thought of this as well. To add what I would love to see is:

So starting out with this comic: http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

I think a open education platform where it kind of plots out the things like in comic. So you could navigate around this circle and see where your knowledge is at for certain subjects (closer to edge of the circle is getting to phd knowledge).

What you could also do is show interconnected things. Say you are trying to learn some math subjects but you know very advanced music theory (or whatever). Knowing how to explain certain topics to someone that has other knowledge, or even showing other topics and how they make use of the math/whatever subjects you are studying.

I started on something like this, basically just going through a bunch of schools curriculum and putting it together with classes / books I could find. But I would love to explore this further.

Feel free to message me: jordan@howlett.io

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by aaronem »

dome82 wrote: post #205

An easy way for mole mapping at home and having an personal electronic journal about it. It should be possible to share a link with your dermatologist containing your mole mapping.

Dibs! Melanoma runs in my family; it never occurred to me to build something like this, but I can certainly see the benefit. Thanks for the idea!

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by fineline »

jonsen wrote: post #31

Downloadable sounds for electric cars. Electric cars must make noise under new EU rules: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26857743

Aesthetics is another (arguably more marketable) aspect of car sound.

Have you seen The Dilemma? About two guys (tech founder and business founder) working on a system for giving traditional muscle car sound to electric cars. (And some romantic comedy type stuff too.) When I saw it I thought - that idea would really fly. Whilst silent cars may be great for the majority (especially those living near busy roads), there is still a sizeable group that will pay extra for a great engine/exhaust note combo. See also recent criticism about the sound of the new hybrid Formula 1 engines, including from world champ Sebastian Vettel "sound like sh*t". There's a definite market there, but obviously depends on the electric car market itself.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by karangoeluw »

lukencode wrote: post #342

A screencast app (or browser extension) specifically to create those short gifs showing product interactions that have been showing up recently.

LICEcap [1] does this beautifully.

> LICEcap can capture an area of your desktop and save it directly to .GIF (for viewing in web browsers, etc) or .LCF.

[1] http://www.cockos.com/licecap/

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by adigar »

lukasm wrote: post #46

Spotify released iOS SDK. Can someone make an app that will just have one button? Just play the goddamn music. I think Spotify works on the wrong level of abstraction. It should work exactly like a radio. Many people just want to listen some good music for running, relaxing etc. They couldn't care less about following artists and making playlists. Also, I'd like to be able to play it while I'm on a train. Pre-fech 30…

Recently came across Noon Pacific that does exactly this. Loving the service: http://noonpacific.com/

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by Jonovono »

shsteimer wrote: post #10

A mobile app that combines flight info with airport food listings and reviews. Let's you put in your flight numbers for a connection and will make recommendations based on the time if your layover, gates you are flying into and out of, etc.

I don't think it does exactly what you want but it somewhat useful: GatesGuru (by tripadvisor). Can see a map of the airport and what they have to eat etc.
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