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Startup Ideas We'd Be Willing To Pay For

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Re: Startup Ideas We'd Be Willing To Pay For

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Post by oniTony »

jprobert wrote: post #3

With regards to #2 on your list "Yelp for Business Services" there is a company called Contact Karma http://www.contactkarma.com/ which aims to do something along the lines of what you're looking for. My company will also eventually be in the space and allow you to search and discover recommendations through friends and friends of friends in your social networks. For the most part we're restaurants, entertainment, an…

> recommendations through friends and friends of friends

So kind of like http://www.gigpark.com/ (which is arguably something like "Yelp for (Business and other types of) Services").

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Post by akavi »

chrischen wrote: post #12

4. An iPhone code editor with Github / Heroku integration Can kind of be solved by using iSSH or any other SSH client for the iphone. If you've got a bluetooth keyboard then it's pretty handy.

That makes it possible, but far from easy/convenient enough to be worthwhile.

What I imagine is intended by this is a text editor tailor made for browsing and editing code on a touch screen with limited real estate. A non-trivial problem in my estimation.

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Post by incomethax »

Doppler for Heroku (http://dopplerapp.com/) works like a charm for having a quick rails console on your iPhone. It also allows you to provision your app and run rake tasks as well.

I'd be interested in something that also allowed code editing with github integration for the iPhone if any exist.

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Post by edw519 »

Have you had another idea you’d pay if existed?

1. A device that rings a bell or flashes the lights in any/all rooms of my house if my cell phone is at home and rings. This way I don't have to carry it with me everywhere in the house.

2. A service which lets me know which restaurants have excess capacity and will give me a discount if I come right now.

3. A reasonably priced dependable on-line grocery service that delivers in fly-over country.

4. An email device for senior citizens as easy to use as an iPod.

5. A device that lets you know whether the dishes in the dishwasher are dirty or clean.

6. An open source Windows clone that works.

7. A device that automatically disables any cell phone in any car within 50 car lengths of me and heading in my direction.

[EDIT: Numbers 1 thru 5 were serious. #6 was a pipedream. #7 was a joke, but like James Bond's Austin Martin, I can dream, can't I? You guys are giving me what I deserve for mixing jokes in with the real stuff.]

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Post by run4yourlives »

edw519 wrote: post #17

Have you had another idea you’d pay if existed? 1. A device that rings a bell or flashes the lights in any/all rooms of my house if my cell phone is at home and rings. This way I don't have to carry it with me everywhere in the house. 2. A service which lets me know which restaurants have excess capacity and will give me a discount if I come right now. 3. A reasonably priced dependable on-line grocery service that de…

Number 7 rocks. :)

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Post by gallerytungsten »

edw519 wrote: post #17

Have you had another idea you’d pay if existed? 1. A device that rings a bell or flashes the lights in any/all rooms of my house if my cell phone is at home and rings. This way I don't have to carry it with me everywhere in the house. 2. A service which lets me know which restaurants have excess capacity and will give me a discount if I come right now. 3. A reasonably priced dependable on-line grocery service that de…

re: "2. A service which lets me know which restaurants have excess capacity and will give me a discount if I come right now."

Some of my local pizza places use Twitter to provide this service.

re: "7. A device that automatically disables any cell phone in any car within 50 car lengths of me and heading in my direction."

Cell phone jammers are readily available, but are illegal in the USA. (This is not legal advice.)

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Post by anamax »

edw519 wrote: post #17

Have you had another idea you’d pay if existed? 1. A device that rings a bell or flashes the lights in any/all rooms of my house if my cell phone is at home and rings. This way I don't have to carry it with me everywhere in the house. 2. A service which lets me know which restaurants have excess capacity and will give me a discount if I come right now. 3. A reasonably priced dependable on-line grocery service that de…

> 5. A device that lets you know whether the dishes in the dishwasher are dirty or clean.

The door latch tells you that. If the door is latched, the dishes are clean. If the door is unlatched, the dishes are dirty.

This works if everyone who opens the door when it is latched either empties the dishwasher (and leaves it unlatched) or relatches it AND no one latches the door after putting in a dirty dish unless they also start it.

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