>Look Inside for New Hires
Company takes pictures of inside of their office so prospective employees know the culture/space they are getting into. Hey Glassdoor this would be great for you!
Already done: http://www.officelovin.com/
I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas
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#32Nice! I maintain a list of startup idea lists [1]. If I get some time, I'll add your list too, but if anyone else is feeling up to it, the repo is open source [2] and I'd gladly accept PRs :)
[1] http://www.hello-startup.net/resources/startup-ideas/ [2] https://github.com/brikis98/hello-startup-site
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#33>COLIVING
This one is currently being done! hicommon.com
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#34I actually did Stumble Upon for Ecommerce recently
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#35I 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.
HubSpot's CRM is made just for this use case. Plus its free! - http://www.hubspot.com/crm
Disclosure: I work at HubSpot
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#36Was recently approached to work on a commercial real estate idea similar to a lot of yours in the idea of making things easier and more modern. I know nothing of the field, so it's interesting to read your ideas on it and see you share some of the same sentiments.
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#37i 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).
If you want to take it a step further, you have have a button that the parent can press to record the story. It'll be able to playback the story whenever the kid likes and automatically pairs the recording segments to the respective page so that when the page is turned it'll continue on with the story exactly as it was told the first time.
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#38Love it. Two years ago I did this, and wrote a little something about it when I started: "Why my code and ideas are public" https://sivers.org/ws I blogged about it to call attention to it for one main reason: I wanted to see if anyone would "steal" the ideas. Because it seems to be many (MANY) people's biggest worry about sharing any ideas: that someone will steal them. See the comments in https://sivers.org/how2hir…
Derek I think you are right about why none of these ideas have been stolen :)
As a general rule you don’t have to worry about your ideas being stolen unless you are lucky enough to have a truly brilliant idea [1]. The chance that you have a brilliant idea is very low.
1. By brilliant I mean an idea that checks more than 10 off my list. http://www.tillett.info/2015/08/30/ideas-are-not-cheap/
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#39I did the same thing on a trello board. Had some friends collaborate and add some potential projects too. Perhaps we could make a site which allows groups to form around these and contribute? Could tie it into trello, github, etc. If anyone would be interested in collaborating and building something like this send me a message :)
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#40I'll probably never get Jake to admit it, but until proven otherwise, I think being vocal about my own ideas is part of how CaseText came to be - and that was absolutely the purpose of putting it out there. If not me, then whoever.
edit: Have talked w/ Jake several times personally since they formed. Sometimes when I'm antsy I beg him for a job as consultant!