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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by foolinaround »

BadCookie wrote: post #320
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…

Major legal problems with this, unfortunately (at least in the US). You pretty much HAVE to have a commercial kitchen in order to legally sell food in the United States, as well as be licensed by the state. It is cost prohibitive. Some states have what are called "cottage food laws" that enable individuals to sell food cooked in their home kitchens on a small scale, but there are many restrictions. (For example, in m…

What if there is no money involved in this, but more of an exchange/barter with points? If a point was roughly equal to a cent, then imagine the neighbour makes 3 tacos that could be 500 points... This student then will offer up a $25 Amazon gift card that is worth $25 to him, that he could offer for sale on this site (like ebay) and he gets to keep his points which he can barter.. At no point is cash redeemed/exchanged.

Does this break any of the various regulatory laws in place?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by kenrick95 »

hooande wrote: post #72

A solution for the "too many tabs open" problem. Need a way to save my history in an organized and interactive manner, with a nice looking UI. Sort of like the old WebMynd ( http://webmynd.com ). I find that most of my tabs are open as a form of reminder. If I close it, I'll forget it and might as well not have seen it. Same if I hide it away in some kind of bookmarking app. I think it would be best to apply a UI lay…

Use Firefox's tab grouping feature. :)

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups-organize-tab...

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by olalonde »

A package/dependency manager for C/C++. In my limited experience working with C/C++ projects, the most painful part was always getting the project to actually build (downloading all dependencies, figuring out how the Makefile works, etc.). In other words, a npm/brew for C/C++.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by ChristianBundy »

quaunaut wrote: post #47

This is less an idea, more something for someone to think about. We need to figure out how to defeat the internet echo chamber effect. Notice how often, when a community gets started between a small group of people(such as early Reddit or HN), it's a place of intelligent, productive discussion, where people measure what they say instead of just spouting extreme rhetoric? Yet, once these communities grow, you inevitab…

I'm currently building a solution to this which is still in very early beta. Using machine learning, I'm working on solving the Goldilocks problem of community affinity (not too close, not too disparate), aiming to fix the hivemind problem that reddit has and the strictness that topical communities like HN have.

I'd love to hear your thoughts if you have a few moments to spare!

Code: http://code.fraction.io Beta: http://beta.fraction.io

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by EwanG »

bennesvig wrote: post #177

A way to get notified of new book reviews for my book across Amazon, Audile, iTunes, and GoodReads. Even better if it could also track sales from Amazon, CreateSpace, and Audible in one place.

You can sort of do this now (at least the sales) if you're willing to use Draft2Digital and let them submit you to all those places. They get a cut of each sale however, so you'd have to decide if the centralized reporting and letting them do a bit of the leg work is worth the price.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by olalonde »

gamegoblin wrote: post #9

A programmer social network. I find myself with two distinct sets of friends on Facebook: my tech friends and my normal friends. With my tech friends, I just want to post neat snippets of code as statuses and share github gists on walls and whatnot. So I'd like basically github with more social elements thrown in. Imagine seeing a cool repo, then being able to friend the owner, and open a chat box to have a quick cha…

http://www.coderwall.com seems similar to that.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by EwanG »

One more pain point I'd like to solve. Something that can process my pictures, and tell me what wildflower(s) are in them. Sitting down with a guidebook is tedious, and sometimes it's hard to tell which version from a book or site is closer to the picture you have because of the angle. So I end up adding meta data that it's a picture with blue flowers. Not to mention that there are some longer term ecological studies that could be done if I can see how often flowers or plants turned up in a certain area 10 years ago compared to now...

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by wingerlang »

hueving wrote: post #271
drcross wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think I have a solution to this, something I called Reddit150. You have divisions, like in soccer or american foot ball leagues, where the highest rated members can be promoted to the "higher" league and also demoted if their contributions are not good enough. People from a lower division cannot comment on a higher division, but everyone can view all divisions, this would result in situation where the media would a…

That doesn't solve the problem of the comment with the lowest common denominator being the one that gets promoted the most.

I think it could work somewhat. It depends on the type of, in this case, subreddit. With this in mind:

> also demoted if their contributions are not good enough.

If there is a user that gains karma by karmawhoring with the quick jokes and whatnot he/she would simply be demoted by the rest of the high-users.

Or something to that effect.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by artur_makly »

Back when we were in an accelerator, I was blown away by how many tools were being used by the other startups ( over 300 teams ) that i've never heard of.

So i came up with http://Vettted.com as a way to harness that data..and ideally create conversations about how each team used each tool specifically.( that part still needs work )

Any takers?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by sunir »

callmeed wrote: post #364

API documentation tool: If you have a REST(ish) API, the tool would allow you to: * Describe the authentication * Enter all the objects, methods, URL endpoints, and parameters of your API The tool would then: * Generate pretty documentation, including example requests/responses * Include a working web-based API console (like Mashery has) * Auto-generates client libraries in Ruby, Python, PHP, Node, Obj-C, etc. and ke…

Like http://apiary.io ?
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