Something web or smartphone based that can automate the process of examining various health/exercise/diet event data points over time, and learn from them until it can highlight patterns and events that may be related.
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#22I wish someone would build "Thunderbird" as a chrome application... Right now, there's not really a good multi-site email applciation... even if it were limited to IMAP, or on-server. Not sure what the limits on localStorage or indexedDB are for chrome apps. Would be happy if it stored the credentials online somehow allowing me to use it wherever. That's what I'd like to see, though I get most of what I need with web…
> you login, use your apps and they stay there, for you to access at-will
Sounds like https://sandstorm.io/
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#23Sports (and events) Netflix/live streaming. That would kill cable for sure.
A curated "channel-like" experience for Netflix/YouTube shows. There's a LOT of good content out there, but it's hard to filter. And the "channel" experience of surfing and switching between programs has been kind of lost.
A different kind of smartphone, with actual buttons. Or maybe even what one manufacturer (Samsung?) tried to do, splitting the phone experience from the smart experience, with one ergonomically good device for calls, and another for messages and browsing. I also very often want to be looking at my screen while on a call (check mail, google stuff, look at maps).
I also miss the experience of the slide-to-answer on my old Nokia n86, or flip-to-answer like the Motorola Razr. I could also make calls without looking.
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#24I have a backup cam on my car, I want a little wiper on it, like my windshield. Every time it rains I have to get out of my car and wipe it off with my thumb.
Build it, Arduino micro, servo, Bluetooth module. What about the battery though.
I'm sure you could get decent power from the rear lamps.
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#25A simple plug and play referral program to let your saas customers get a recurring kickback when referring others.
It should integrate with stripe and let you configure behavior like adjusting payout percentages after a certain amount of time has passed.
Ideally it would have an admin panel for each referrer so they can see their performance.
It also needs to have pricing that scales from nothing so pre-revenue companies can set it up and only pay when they are making money. Ambassador wants an upfront fee of 5 - 20k plus they have mandatory "success coaching" that is like $200/mo extra. Not a lot if you are already in a successful business but rules them out for me while Im pre-revenue.
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#26A gmail clone with privacy monetized via charging me $50 or so a year. I'm currently a fastmail subscriber, and it is nowhere near as good as gmail. Fastmail specifically is deficient in several ways: * gmail conversations. it is threads done correctly. Fastmail half-does this but the seams peek through all over the place. Eg you don't have labels, you have actual folders and those two aren't the same at all. * fastm…
Id love to move away from Gmail but I haven't found another client that has the features I cant live without. Most importantly the prioritized inbox.
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#27Something web or smartphone based that can automate the process of examining various health/exercise/diet event data points over time, and learn from them until it can highlight patterns and events that may be related.
A couple of years ago I built an app that collected data points, but I had a hard time analyzing patterns meaningfully. Might be time to give it another go, unless someone else has already done it.
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#28A simple plug and play referral program to let your saas customers get a recurring kickback when referring others. It should integrate with stripe and let you configure behavior like adjusting payout percentages after a certain amount of time has passed. Ideally it would have an admin panel for each referrer so they can see their performance. It also needs to have pricing that scales from nothing so pre-revenue compa…
Referly did this before they pivoted to Mattermark:
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/refer-ly
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like a good weekend project. Most of those have APIs for what you couldn't screen scrape.
I wonder what this would look like. Just a bunch of tiles butted against each other with their respective logos/color schemes?
All in all, it's the same information. Could have different colored tiles for different services, so you can use the avatar icons from the accounts themselves. Then it's just text or image or video. Click to make the tile full screen to show the full post information and all the relevent actions you can take for that service. Could also show the full conversation and/or comments, depending on the service.
Or instead of tiles, it could be single lines like in IRC. Maybe an icon somewhere in there to show if there's an image or video to view. Hover preview?
Nope, never spent any time thinking about it. No, siree. ;)
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#30A single IM platform through which everyone can talk to everyone regardless of their IM service, and I mean I wanna be able to send a message to someone's iMessage from my Battle.net account, and then receive someone's Facebook message on my Slack or something. Obviously IDK how this would be possible, but IM is now broken beyond repair by companies that tried to "fix" it. The list of IM apps on my iPhone keeps growing, I got Slack, Hangouts, Telegram, FB Messenger, iOS Messages, HipChat, and Skype, and whenever I need to search for a message I never know which one to look in, and whenever I need to message someone I never know which channel is the best to use, and it's just a freaking mess. I hate state of IM in 2016, and I hate the parties that were involved in getting it to where it is now.