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Idea Validator: Type in the long-tail search phrases and it goes off and does as much market research automatically for you as possible, and comes back with a yes/no on whether you should bother pursuing it. Perhaps including a list of statistics like: how much it would cost to get into that market, how many competitors there appear to be, etc. etc.
MVP as a service, where you pay a fixed amount each month to get a fixed number of developer hours. EDIT: To expand on this a bit: True lean development, every month focused on delivering a working product. Initially using third party applications like Firebase and Parse, gradually increasing features, but the product must launch by the end of the first month.
I've got a team that can do this. In fact, I've already started meeting startup people who are interested. The team is able to make websites, iOS/Android apps (that talk to the sites), pretty much anything that you'd want an MVP to do. We know how AWS works (can make things scale ready), and how the app launch/approval process works. We can integrate all manner of components, including push messaging, databases, pict…
Since no one linked it, here's the reason Idea Sunday was killed in the first place: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693640
Earlier quoted context omitted.
we have that already, the layer is called "money" you can give people rides and be compensated in the "money points (usually US dollar). Later you can use this points to recieve rides yourself by others. great thing is that you can use those points for many goods and services and not only for rides.
After the 20% they pay to Uber, and income taxes on the money earned from Uber, they would wind up with half of the miles they had earned through this "money" layer. With this, they get full value for each mile. Additionally, Uber is restricted from entering into many markets (example: their failed entry into Nevada, where one of the largest tourist markets on earth is located). With free - as in no money changing ha…
That would work well for a while, but if your service got really big, and became a target for enforcement, you (or your users) might have serious tax problems.
Here's where to start: https://assembly.com/start
And if you mention @awwstn anywhere on Assembly I'm more than happy to help out.
Easy Expenses: There are lots of expenses saas apps out there, but the pain with expenses is scanning in all the receipts. I should be able to do this by just taking a picture of the receipt at the time I get it. Perhaps include some computer vision stuff to pick the numbers off the receipt and let me choose which one was cost (incl./excl. VAT). Include other fields for project, time, date, reason, etc. Then when I'm…
Since no one linked it, here's the reason Idea Sunday was killed in the first place: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693640
Then again, perhaps the best thing about hackernews is the simplicity of the system without having these complex scenarios tied to posts.
There needs to be an easy method for consumers to pay the record labels for the rights to use signed-artist music in amateur videos. That way I have the rights to upload my GoPro snowboarding videos that will have Content ID matches on Facebook, YouTube, etc. because of the music. I realize there's plenty of ways around Content ID matching and even more Creative Commons music, but that's not the point.
My understanding though, is that it's not hard, just expensive. Therefore, everyone just end up using illegal content. There should be an easy way way to track views and pay per 1K/M, etc. Or better, pay with revenue share of commercials alongside.
FDAPI: Food Delivery API. Grubhub is winning the food delivery battle because the industry is so fragmented. Have a simple, central API for restaurants to export and store in the cloud their menus, hours, availability, percent they are willing to give to affiliates (if any) etc. Any app can tie into the system and submit orders in exchange for affiliate revenue. Restaurants can receive orders, with order info, paymen…
Like Gravatar but for everything, not just avatars. Gravatar is a service, where you save your avatar. Websites such as StackOverflow can connect to Gravatar and retrieve your avatar from there. So when you decide to change your avatar, you do it in one place. On a more abstract level, the problem here is that people and organizations often create some data and basically Ctrl+C Ctrl+V it to different services. Couple…