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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by yitchelle »

A translation service - A photo of the document to be translated is emailed into the service. In 1 or 2 days time, the email is replied with an translated document. The photo can be taken with mobile phone photos and emailed.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by artyomkazak »

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…

There are lots of tools which allow sending typo reports instantly to the author, e.g. http://orphus.ru/en.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by forgotprevpass »

netcan wrote: post #33

Commitment device app that works on a dead man's switch. The idea is to use the discipline you have now to discipline your future self. eg1 - Enter your weight every month. If you go over a predetermined weight, it does something punitive. Posts embarrassing pictures online, emails your mom, donates $50 to the Klu klux Klan. eg2 Create a todo list with due dates, goals or somesuch. Failing to complete them does somet…

Isn't this what beeminder.com does?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by covercash »

Thiz wrote: post #30

Soylent bars.* I like the idea of Soylent as a complete food, but instead of a nutritional drink, I believe a power bar would be a better idea, for portability, storage, and consumption. * Not tech related.

People in the Soylent discussion boards have made bars, breads, muffins, etc. out of the base Soylent mix.

More here: http://discourse.soylent.me/t/soylid-solid-soylent/3145

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by Unai »

netcan wrote: post #19

Fix podcasts. I was helping someone set up her android phone for podcasts and noticed how problematic the whole process is. First, the android apps aren't very good. More problematic is the process of getting a feed into it. Sometimes searching by name works. Often it doesn't. Getting from podcast's website to the app is a problem. Discovery is also quite poor.

Most free podcast android apps are pretty terrible, but PocketCast (paid) is really awesome (at least it have a great UI). I don't even listen to podcast that often, but I bought it without hesitation.

But it's true that there's a problem with podcast, so take my +1.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by ghayes »

marpalmin wrote: post #31

SocialPower: 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/

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by DanBC »

Unai wrote: post #17

A crowd-sourced (á la Wikipedia) AI platform to create a chatbot (á la Siri) , with a nice user-friendly front-end, so users can input de "inputs and answers". I guess that with time it could be improved with APIs and better algorithms.

This is a great idea!

I'd be terrified of the results if /b/ get hold of it. I saw the results of a few chatbots and it was funny, but also scary.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by sebslomski »

netcan wrote: post #19

Fix podcasts. I was helping someone set up her android phone for podcasts and noticed how problematic the whole process is. First, the android apps aren't very good. More problematic is the process of getting a feed into it. Sometimes searching by name works. Often it doesn't. Getting from podcast's website to the app is a problem. Discovery is also quite poor.

A couple if German podcasters are about to fix this: the have crowd sourced an antenna pod fork to make it a single purpose app. Toby Bayer is the main organizer. Alle the code is open source: https://github.com/tobybaier/Einschlafen-Podcast-App
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