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Post by chiptuned »

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.

There are some apps out there that are collecting parking data for cities:

http://parkopedia.com http://www.parkme.com http://www.bestparking.com

Would be nice for Google Maps to acquire/build their own parking data and integrate it as an overlay.

As for the others discussing dynamic spot availability, I say worry about nailing the static info first: street parking rules, parking lot locations, rates, etc..

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Post by UweSchmidt »

hershel wrote: post #29

Dynamic search anonimizer: most of the times google's personalized search is much better than anonimized search services like duckduckgo. But in certain query types anonimized search is highly preferable. What about a service/browser extension that understands thoses difference and guide the search accordingly ?

how about Startpage.com

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Post by AbhishekBiswal »

allworknoplay wrote: post #306
AbhishekBiswal wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Email Link" : Something you want to save for reading later? Pocket and other services do the exact same thing, that is, they save links for reading later, and you can email it to yourself too. In case you want to automate the process, you can create an IFTTT recipe for it. :) And you don't need to pay for it.

pocket even provides an rss feed of saved items so you can read and manage them in your reader. No affiliation to pocket and no idea if other similar products do the same thing.

Yes! There are other apps too, like Instapaper, Readability, etc. Pocket looks good, and it has browser extensions so you can save the current page with just one click. The app is one of those most beautiful apps I have seen on Play/App store.

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Post by AbhishekBiswal »

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 : Try Betterific https://betterific.com/

Does pretty much the same thing, allowing users to post ideas/problems/solutions.

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Post by espeed »

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…

I'm working on a project called Whybase that does exactly that: http://whybase.com

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Post by junto »

aspidistra wrote: post #207
ShinyCyril wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would love to see a UK Meshnet take off - however activity behind projects doesn't seem to be anywhere near the level of places like Seattle etc. which is a shame. Would there be any issues with regards to attaching these devices to street lights? Who owns that infrastructure - the councils?

Councils maintain streetlights: https://www.gov.uk/report-problem-street-light

And they have no spare money for such projects. Ideally you would bundle the meshnet with cheaper lighting.

Something similar is mentioned here:

> Philips’ LED street light poles will now include small cell mobile telecom equipment from Ericsson that cities can rent to telecom operators. The payments from telecom providers would then help pay for the infrastructure.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/green-tech/conservation/...

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Post by junto »

gaurab wrote: post #282

kickstarter 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

> "Bring back Firefly for another season #FlyAgain"

I for one back this request with a passion! Best series ever. What were they thinking canning this?

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Post by koliber »

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 believe KISSmetrics is what you may be interested in. You send in events, and then are able to see who has done which event, create graphs, and do more powerful analysis.
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