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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by vijayr »

swah wrote: post #424
vijayr wrote: post #421

Two ideas: 1. Would be labor intensive, but: a site (blog?) that talks to people/experts from various industries, quizzing them about problems they face in their daily jobs. Some of these might be solvable by software. It doesn't need to be too detailed, but it would help if it is totally outside of the usual tech stuff - the quirkier the better. People can pick something from the blog, instead of building yet anothe…

f(a,b,c,d,e,f) -> return "San Francisco"; (Meaning: the kind of people that would use that app would all go to the same place).

I disagree. There are lots of non-software people (other engineers, business people etc) for whom SF is not the ideal destination. They are quite tech savvy, though they might not know how to code. I'm sure they'd use it.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by netcan »

dreeves wrote: post #241
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…

Huge thank you to everyone pointing out Beeminder (I'm a cofounder). Here are all the other such apps we know of: http://blog.beeminder.com/competitors

I'm impressed you put that post up & link to it here.

:)

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by btgeekboy »

johndoeee wrote: post #22

Feedback for catered lunch at work. I work for a small company and we get catered lunch delivered every day. They never ask about if we liked it and if the amount we received fit our consumption. So, some way to inform them about which dishes we liked and how much food we threw away.

Wouldn't a simple Google Docs form fit the bill here?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by gautamnarula »

Spittie wrote: post #145
gautamnarula wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I created something similar to #1: http://millisay.com It hasn't really taken off, but I also haven't put much effort into promoting it. It still lacks a few features (I've been busy with other projects), but I really like the clean, simple design and a few people have posted some interesting stuff.

Nice :) One of my ideas about "tripcodes" was that eventually an user could upload a style-sheet to customize his blog, one could see all the post by a certain tripcode and could follow him (rss?). I agree, I like the simple design. One problem (or maybe I'm just dumb): I've pressed the "New" button a bunch of times to post something New, and only after that I realized that I should have pushed "Sumbit" instead. Mayb…

Thanks good feedback, thanks! I've changed it to "Recent". The tripcode idea is very interesting...I'll definitely have to think about implementing it.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by jpindar »

DanBC wrote: post #48
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.

Yes. It's been tried but people kept giving it useless data.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by adigar »

Houshalter wrote: post #340
nileshtrivedi wrote: post #319

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's only true for factual statements. It's perfectly possible to reach different conclusion starting from different moral premises.

Then there is still only one truth and they can still come to an agreement on statements like "gun control is good if your goal is to reduce homicide rates" or "gun control is bad if your goal is to maximize personal freedom", etc. Then it's not a matter of disagreement or coming to different conclusions, it's just having different values.

I think this works better. As someone said above, it comes down to trade offs. Arguing a point with a specific goal to work towards leads to better discussions than trying to answer questions like: "is x good or bad?"

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by davewasthere »

real-estate search engine mashup that has maximum internet speed available to residence as a filter.

Would be great in Australia. I'd love to be able to filter rentable properties which have NBN/FTTP connections for instance... Would work well in UK too.

But for FTTN connections, having a distance from exchange would probably work well enough.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by gormo2 »

sideproject wrote: post #238
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) check out http://sideprojectors.com ? :) Reddit also has a subreddit called "somebody make this".

FYI your chosen font probably looks beautiful on mobile, but does not render properly on desktop Chrome or Firefox for me.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by my_username_is_ »

mappum wrote: post #335
unclek wrote: post #309

A small device that lets me piggyback off my friend's phone's battery if my battery is at 5% and theirs is at 99% and they can spare some charge cycles.

I've thought about how public chargers are something that businesses should start using. Imagine sitting down at a restaurant and getting a full charge during your meal. If wireless charging gets more standard, then there won't be an eyesore of cables.

My university added some charging stations in public places in my senior year. There were countless times where these came in handy for both myself and fellow classmates, I can definitely see this catching on

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by rahimnathwani »

sebslomski wrote: post #50
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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