I just spent 5 minutes of my life on http://littlegreatideas.com/willyou/index.php
A good one I found today was http://www.zoomii.ca
Sometimes if I've been working on facebook apps for a while I'll go back to my own site and smile.
Ask YC: Projects that inspire you
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Re: Ask YC: Projects that inspire you
#12http://www.tinyurl.com They're not really a startup since they only accept donations, but I loved the idea so much I made my own version which does not randomly assign a string but instead allows users to pick their own phrase: http://www.oneryng.com
Yeah, it's an amazingly useful service.. Love it too.
Nice work on oneryng.. At least reveal the meaning of life though if you know it..
Re: Ask YC: Projects that inspire you
#13http://wufoo.com/ http://www.weebly.com/ http://geticeberg.com/ http://wordpress.com/ All sites that let the user build something of his own. I've always been fascinated by this approach. All very clever and very cool. (Now all we need is a site that lets the user build a site that lets his user build a something of his own.)
Seconded, I love wufoos design. I needed to set up a simple form for http://facebookcontest.com/contact.html and wufoo just flowed.
Re: Ask YC: Projects that inspire you
#14http://www.tinyurl.com They're not really a startup since they only accept donations, but I loved the idea so much I made my own version which does not randomly assign a string but instead allows users to pick their own phrase: http://www.oneryng.com
You may want to disallow reassignment, or at least detect circular assignments.
Re: Ask YC: Projects that inspire you
#15http://blinksale.com has a clean, simple interface and a useful service, that also has great business model built in.
Flickr seems so obvious now that people forget how lame online photo sites were before it. Personally, at least for some time, Flickr made me invest more time and energy in taking better photos. It's naturally social, as opposed to glued on "social networking" features for many apps.
Re: Ask YC: Projects that inspire you
#16http://www.librarything.com
Simple, narrow, single guy for a month (initially), subscription model from day one.
Re: Ask YC: Projects that inspire you
#17In terms of sheer inspiration, I'm not sure startups are what do it for me. Stuff like the mars probes is what I want to stand up and cheer for.
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#18http://hellomynameise.com http://friendfeed.com , although I believe it solves a problem by slowly creating another (noise) What I would really love today is an Intelligentsia. Something similar to a closed and secret community of smart people (which you find here) who share ideas, links,thoughts, solutions to our everyday problems. Think of it as a closed, secret invite only HN.
they exist, they're just hard to get invited to because they want to remain small.
Re: Ask YC: Projects that inspire you
#19http://hellomynameise.com http://friendfeed.com , although I believe it solves a problem by slowly creating another (noise) What I would really love today is an Intelligentsia. Something similar to a closed and secret community of smart people (which you find here) who share ideas, links,thoughts, solutions to our everyday problems. Think of it as a closed, secret invite only HN.
barbelith.com might suit your tastes. It's not invite-only, but if you apply then it takes months to get approved. Reasonably intelligent discussion occurs.
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#20I really liked http://twistori.com/ very clean and sexy.