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Re: Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?

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Post by thescribe »

jdale27 wrote: post #40
thescribe wrote: post #36

I want to build a meta-layer that sits on top of basically every cloud platform be it dropbox or facebook. The best one sentence pitch I can come up with is "A dashboard for your online life" it should ideally do things like present all your storage as a single filesystem, present all your social networks as a single feed, and beyond that allow interactions between services like saving an image from your social netwo…

I think that is a great idea, and perhaps not unlike what the Semantic Web was possibly intended to enable. But it seems not to have been very successful. Or am I mistaken?

I think I'm thinking of a more limited scope than the semantic web. The semantic web needs everything, I just need the top 100 services people use.

Re: Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?

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Post by myroon5 »

ice109 wrote: post #98
myroon5 wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've always wished there would be just a simple tablet at the entrance of grocery/supermarket stores to search for a product's location.

the reason this doesn't exist is because stores make money off you wandering around, looking for what you want, picking up other stuff along the way.

A man can dream

Re: Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?

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Post by jabgrabdthrow »

viraptor wrote: post #26

Bubble burster bot. Identify cliques with few "outside" connections, that talk about politics on a social network. Start engaging both groups with content "acceptable" to both of them. Continue until direct connections are formed and move on. "Content" can be trivial - like finding a link posted by one person and responding "similar to this, right? " Potential risk: choosing bad content could cause more conflicts tha…

like Correct The Record?

> but not like that

Re: Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?

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Post by madmax108 »

faddat wrote: post #34

Inverse Commerce - Customers simply type what they want. GPS locates the customer. Companies submit reverse bids both manually and algorithmically. Customer accepts what suits them best. Yay, money saved, time saved, customer happy. Specifically, I don't have enough experience building android apps to make it as slick as I would like. Happy to talk with anyone about it. Can build back end, will travel, etc :).

Doesn't this already exist? especially for hardware? I remember a few years ago I needed some LED name tags and on some Chinese site I just asked for quotes for LED name tags... even today i get quotes from sellers for the same :P

Re: Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?

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Post by photogrammetry »

FullMtlAlcoholc wrote: post #105
photogrammetry wrote: post #7

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 o…

Would you mind explaining how you'd bootstrap it? I'm obsessed with asteroid mining

The book Seveneves may give you some hints, but take them with a few grains of salt.

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Post by koichirose »

faddat wrote: post #34

Inverse Commerce - Customers simply type what they want. GPS locates the customer. Companies submit reverse bids both manually and algorithmically. Customer accepts what suits them best. Yay, money saved, time saved, customer happy. Specifically, I don't have enough experience building android apps to make it as slick as I would like. Happy to talk with anyone about it. Can build back end, will travel, etc :).

How would companies submit bids though? Should they have their own natural language/keyword analyzer to identify which product the customer is actually looking for and submit their price for it?

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Post by Madsn »

johnnydoebk wrote: post #118

A platform where random people are collaborating with each other to bootstrap startups. Not difficult from a technical point of view. But it's not clear whether anybody needs it.

I'm convinced this exists - or at least used to exist, but can't seem to find the site now. The idea was sort of like bountysource, where tasks were defined and some sort of currency reward assigned to the task. The currency was related to parts ownership in the final product/company. Maybe somebody else knows what I'm talking about?

Re: Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?

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Post by johnnydoebk »

Madsn wrote: post #119
johnnydoebk wrote: post #118

A platform where random people are collaborating with each other to bootstrap startups. Not difficult from a technical point of view. But it's not clear whether anybody needs it.

I'm convinced this exists - or at least used to exist, but can't seem to find the site now. The idea was sort of like bountysource, where tasks were defined and some sort of currency reward assigned to the task. The currency was related to parts ownership in the final product/company. Maybe somebody else knows what I'm talking about?

Was it assembly.com [1]?

[1]: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/assembly

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