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Fantasy Tourism [1]. A VR app or game that lets me explore (or live in) fictional cities and places from popular works or standalone art. Like Hobbiton, Coruscant, the torus-city of Sigil from Planescape, or the Venice-on-Mars from the Aria manga/anime. [1]: https://medium.com/@Razengan/virtual-reality-fantasy-tourism...
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Because of the spam threat. Controlling identity (for example by knowing for sure the sender's phone number) allows for a huge mitigation of spam.
What's different about email?
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> There's no technical reason for them to be walled gardens, only business reasons, which are at odds with my privacy and general happiness. Then pay them! Hosting fees are not gratis.
Where should I sign up for the "privacy-respecting, no-advertising" facebook plan? Twitter have one of those, too?
I hypothesize that the list of ideas that will be posted here will make for great examples of what not to build if you're considering commercial value. Developers and the HN crowd make for a very small market and are very hard to monetize. In that vein, I wish someone would build a list of things that regular, everyday folks actually would want and use. The middle manager working at BigCorp; the teenager; the stay-at…
Might work as a curated list, but then it is hard to scale.
An ebook reader/protocol that would let me write or read comments left by other readers or the author(s). It would also be nice to be able chat with other people currently reading the book, especially for more technical books. Basically, make ebooks a bit more like MOOCs.
A slim, networked, pocked sized computer with a physical keyboard, running android or Linux. These used to exist - albeit disguised as phones - but the marketing department decided we don't need no friggin keyboards, and remove everything but the touchscreen and call it a tablet. The result is a consume-only device, on which it is all but impossible to input large amounts of text. Nokia N900, Motorola Droid 3/4, HTC…
Just noting that many answers here are of the type "an aggregator for x" to unify something (news, messaging, sports data, storage across devices, ...). Perhaps interesting would be to find these themes that make good idea-builders.
A decent solution for adding to / viewing Org-mode files on iOS. MobileOrg is abandoned and was super clunky for editing. Currently I use IFTTT do note to append to a txt file in Dropbox which is re-filed later using a python script, but it's hacky..
Also, do you happen to have the pain point of not being able to connect a related notes with current org-mode as well?