11–20 of 147 posts
I feel like no-one has managed to build a small-business CRM (like his Shoebox CRM) effectively yet. I run a one-person business and I'm still using a colour-coded Excel sheet to try and figure out when I should bug sales prospects.
i really love the "talk to the pictures" idea! would translate beautifully to a tablet app too, so that you could get a constant stream of new content (ideally creative commons).
I feel like no-one has managed to build a small-business CRM (like his Shoebox CRM) effectively yet. I run a one-person business and I'm still using a colour-coded Excel sheet to try and figure out when I should bug sales prospects.
Kudos for the last one: re-type the masters. It's brilliantly weird and wonderful! Reminded me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Q...
You can specify external sources for practice text. Why just read the news when you can practice typing while you read it. If you could find a hosted copy of a classical piece of literature, this does exactly what you described.
Typeracer Uses text excerpts from popular movies and books with competitive match ups with other people. It selects competitors based on their current rated speed so it's challenging no matter how good/bad you are. For something as boring as typing, it's seriously addictive and fun.
I keep mine on GitHub[0], however mine aren't really business ideas and more like long-term side-projects with very little scope for making money. [0]: http://github.com/captn3m0/ideas
You've just described about 90% of over-funded startups!
Kudos for the last one: re-type the masters. It's brilliantly weird and wonderful! Reminded me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Q...
I keep mine on GitHub[0], however mine aren't really business ideas and more like long-term side-projects with very little scope for making money. [0]: http://github.com/captn3m0/ideas
>with very little scope for making money. You've just described about 90% of over-funded startups!
I keep mine on GitHub[0], however mine aren't really business ideas and more like long-term side-projects with very little scope for making money. [0]: http://github.com/captn3m0/ideas
1: https://github.com/andreis/ideas
2: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wUe7XO...
3: here they are
cask.space: website for brew cask packages - categories, info, screenshots, discovery, etc.
"deep" ai: strong artificial intelligence - more of a career goal than a side project
docsite: simple, standardized landing pages for doctor's offices, á la jameda or zocdoc
games: tons of game dev resources and indie game websites - if I ever find time to work on one, I love game development
peer interviews: p2p pair mock interviewing for interview practice - an interest of mine (github.com/andreis/interview)
sidelog: a tool to organize [ideas for] side projects + collaboration