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Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?

#1
We haven't had an idea thread in a while. Can you share what project you wanted to implement but you couldnot for some reason.

What ideas and projects will take over communities and in turn the world in next 3 years?

I personally think- adtech is very saturated. DSP have become commodities with each company coming up of their own. There is a good chance for innovation in this space.

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Back then I wanted to implement an internet provider, since my country sucks on providing it with a proper plans

That's a great idea. I still think we have a long way to go for wireless peer-to-peer network that can act as transreceiver with something cellphone like device.

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I don't think these ideas would take over communities neither the world, but they are awesome:

1) Some kind of crawler that goes through YouTube videos indexing them and its subtitles and then when a user searches a word or idiom the web app would show some part of a video that speaks exactly that search term. I know there are other services that does that, but I want something more natural since these services use some kind of text to speech with a robotic voice and not a real life situation.

2) An old school open world MMORPG with modern graphics and a mix of Ultima Online (PVP) and Diablo III (Dungeons) gameplay. Nowadays every mmorpg is a copy of World of Warcraft with a different story. There is no innovation...

EDIT: add another idea :)

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For me, it was a brain for my brain. I slung a lot of code to get what I wanted, but at the end of the day the encryption options are just not robust enough - or do not fit with other toolings needed.

"A brain for my brain" -

Do you mean capturing the thought train on devices and with adaptive feedback mechanism to generate new ideas?

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I can't implement an asteroid mining program now because the cost of space launch for the preliminary/prototype mining equipment would be prohibitively high.

If I had access to a space launch capability for less than $100/kg, however, I could bootstrap the whole business from my basement with an investment of ~$100-200k from some friends. [0]

From SpaceX's perspective, they can put ~5 tons in lunar orbit for a cost of $200k in fuel [1]. $40/kg is great, but it's not what they charge their customers, and it's not what they'd charge me - demand from comsat operators with a much higher willingness to pay means that I have no access to the market, and SpaceX needs to make a profit.

Give it 10-50 years, and I'd expect real asteroid mining will become economically viable. [2]

[0] assuming zero NRE for mining robot fabrication and a single person salary.

[1] ignoring actual launch costs, personnel salaries, and assuming the whole booster stack is paid for through infinite perfect recovery.

[2] see also Planetary Resources, and why they should be in hibernation mode, not burning $2m/year developing camera sats. but hey, VCs have money to burn.

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post #5

I don't think these ideas would take over communities neither the world, but they are awesome: 1) Some kind of crawler that goes through YouTube videos indexing them and its subtitles and then when a user searches a word or idiom the web app would show some part of a video that speaks exactly that search term. I know there are other services that does that, but I want something more natural since these services use s…

I researched building this a few years ago. YouTube has this data indexed but didnt seem to expose a reasonable programmatic search interface for it. Indexing and providing the search myself seemed far beyond scope (would YouTube even allow harvesting all that?).
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