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There are already a specialized niche for this: blogs. Blog platforms just take your data (posts) and display in a nice time-aware format.
But there are not alternatives for pages built with not temporal articles, tree-structured data, hierarchical content, lists of things etc.
An anonymous and representative group discussion and voting system Practical example: Attending a conf as a woman - You want to ask questions during the talks but you are afraid that because you are a woman your answer will be "dumbed-down" or just different - Also, the guy doing the talk would like to answer the best possible question (or a random one) So, there can be a lot of solutions to this problem, here is min…
A file naming convention (lightweight markup) that would allow us to store structured (meta)data right inside file names. Obviously inspired by Markdown and CSV. We could then build lean, database-less asset management applications, while the user data (i.e. the files and their metadata) would always be portable, across platforms. Take for example: J.M.W. Turner | Rain, Steam and Speed | ···· 1844.jpg W. Blake ···· |…
Github for databases. I've been brainstorming occasionally about this idea... :)
Database version-control is IMHO going to be very important in the near future. I'd encourage you to go ahead with it!
So far gathered thoughts on this, documented some business and sustainability plans (some awesome ideas here), and planning a medium-term timeline to actually work on.
But this is very complex to handle on my own, and only in my spare time!
Just going to throw this one out there. I live in Lisbon, it's tourist-central (I'm from SF and I've never seen so many tourists). Since I see a ton of lost people every single day there should be a way to digitally leave comments on things and places and a free one-stop shop to find such info (like Wikitravel). This info, although having a central repository, should be pushed out to an app that connects to one's pho…
My original idea was that you do it ahead of time. It would have general ideas of how long it takes to complete an activity and would essentially provide you a list of maps relative to your hotel. Then, you'd have that information beforehand on your smartphone so that you could avoid roaming charges (which is an issue for international travel.)
The revenue model was funneling to travel sites and possibly travel agents who could provide more customized itineraries.
But now, with OpenStreetMap, you could have an app on the phone. On top of it, it could use the GPS to figure out where you were and put together a slide show for your friends. You could rate when you were there and provide more feedback later if you wanted -- just a simple thumbs up/thumbs down.
I've resigned myself to never getting around to it -- If I'm to found a company, it's going to be in the b2b arena instead.
Here's what I want: A cheap text ssh terminal with wifi,or cellular, nice keyboard hardware, with extremely long battery life (or solar powered), which i can just throw it in my car and forget it. Whenever I am away of my computer I can always log in to my cloud server and write codes or do some quick fixes.
Could you use a (smart) phone?
Enough of the forum/blog/posts/email solutions! How can a community of people, oriented to a subject or location, keep organized data about things it cares about?
A kind of task rabbit that will connect expats ( who don't speak the language) with locals. The idea is that the local will help the expat in small tasks like understanding an insurance policy, housing contract, employment receipt.
Sounds interesting! But would the company be able to build brand? First, to find expats would be somewhat difficult as they tend to blend in! Second, the company would need to be careful which people they hired, so they might be able to start at the top end of the market (high rates, high quality service) and work down from there... That gives me the idea that it could start from an already existing service-oriented…
Idea: StackOverflow for comebacks I've always had a hard time coming up with a good comeback in conversations. It would be great to have a site where I could post a situation and have the community suggest and upvote/downvote insults and comebacks. Maybe introduce a real-time element so I could use it in an actual conversation.
If you do, I'll commit to it :)
1) daily email that highlights the top 10 posts on HN (by points or by most comments) 2) simple way to share sensitive financial details with others (e.g., credit card payments, pay stubs, paypal history, bank transactions)