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

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Post by zachrose »

pitdesi wrote: post #58
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…

1. Clever. You can probably build it yourself with some google voice hack. My computer (via googlevoice chrome plugin) tells me when someone has called or texted already, which is pretty useful in itself because there are often times when I've left my phone somewhere but I'm on my computer. 2. http://www.groupon.com/now , https://livingsocial.com/instant . I don't know if they are in Pittsburgh yet but will be soon,…

Chicago is like layover country though, right?

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Post by c3 »

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…

2. Opentable actually does this - they give you up to 10x more "points" (redeemable for meals, later) for certain restaurants on quiet nights.

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

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Post by kooshball »

forrestthewoods wrote: post #95
kapilkale wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, this would be awesome, particularly the time plot.

So many amazing things could be done. The ideal situation is one in which users can quickly and efficiently mark all tools they use and also get them to update that list every ~6 months. It would integrate nicely with Stack Exchange network I think.

http://osx.iusethis.com/ is somewhat like this. you can see the most popular tools in different categories. they dont have a timeline view.

appfresh also has integration with this, where you can check the tools you need and also update them.

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

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Post by bemmu »

Here's two I would use, but making them seems to require everyone in the world to agree to some reporting API.

- Software that automatically finds receipts for all my account activity. So that if I give it my bank account statement that had a charge for Dropbox, it would automatically create dropbox.png which is a screenshot of the receipt from dropbox. This would save about an hour every month finding these manually.

- Mac OS X widget that adds all daily revenue from all different ad networks (adsense, cubics, lifestreet etc.) and displays the sum for yesterday and today in the menu bar.

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Post by vilya »

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:#6, there's ReactOS: http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html but I've not used it so I don't know if it fits the "works" criteria.

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Post by seclorum »

pdx wrote: post #22
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…

7. A device that automatically disables any cell phone in any car within 50 car lengths of me and heading in my direction. I think this device would have the opposite effect that you hope for. I wonder how many days you would last with it? Multiply the number of talker_drivers you meet with the probability that one of them can't handle the extra distraction of driving and banging on his cell phone, trying to reconnec…

Here in Austria we have these things already .. dunno if you need to get a license for them, or something. But anyway they're definitely available to the general public - I've been in a few restaurants with 'jammer' stickers displayed prominently on the front door.

I'd buy one, personally. I can't stand dickhead drivers and if this is some way to make the roads safer I'm all for it ..

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Post by frobozz »

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…

Surely 4 is impossible. Email is both consumption and production. Listening to music is just consumption. By the crudest estimate, that means that any email device must have an interface that is twice as complicated as an ipod.

The jokey 7 Reminds me of the time I hitched a lift with a drunk driver, because I concluded that it was safer to be in his car, than walking along the road with all the drunk drivers about. Such a device actually sounds quite dangerous - I'd rather have someone driving towards me talking happily on their 'phone, than looking at it in confusion trying to see how many bars they have.

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Post by coreymaass »

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…

Analog clean/dirty indicator http://www.zazzle.com/clean_dirty_indicator_dishwasher_magne...

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Post by chopsueyar »

pdx wrote: post #22
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…

7. A device that automatically disables any cell phone in any car within 50 car lengths of me and heading in my direction. I think this device would have the opposite effect that you hope for. I wonder how many days you would last with it? Multiply the number of talker_drivers you meet with the probability that one of them can't handle the extra distraction of driving and banging on his cell phone, trying to reconnec…

I believe Limor Fried did something similar for her master's thesis.

http://www.ladyada.net/make/wavebubble/index.html

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