wifi enabled thermostat with web-based controller at a reasonable price.
Startup Ideas We'd Be Willing To Pay For
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#112I'd like someone to start a service that guarantees I get the best deal on my utilities every month (gas, electricity, broadband etc). They would get paid an amount based on the saving they made for me.
I was looking into something similar to this for the UK a while ago - tricky part is the legal implications and the fact that you have to use post-fact data to identify the "best" deal when the user behaviour might change the next day.
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#113Have 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…
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#114Have 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. I use a cordless phone at home with stations in every room. The base unit has bluetooth which when paired with cellphone(s) is able to receive calls. I drop the cell phone off at my charging station when I get home and never pick it up again until I'm ready to leave the house. 4. Isn't this the Peek(getpeek.com) device? 6. Doesn't Windows have to work first before a working clone can even be fathomed? I kid.
Can you be more specific on #1?
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#115Have 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.
I would pay for a device that simply washes the dishes at once, one at a time, only dishes.
It could be a hybrid of a toaster and a car washing tunnel: you insert the dish and it spins inside the device with sucessive phases of soap, rinse, drying, the the dish pops up, hopefully not falling to the ground.
Same for glasses.
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#116E-junkie is a PayPal wrapper.
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Use location-awareness apps to set it to a ringtone when you're in the house. If you're on Android, I've had good results with [Locale]( https://market.android.com/details?id=com.twofortyfouram.loc... ). If you're on iOS or something else I have no idea.
Interesting, and I am on Android. But the reason I keep it on vibrate is to stop it making noise every time I get a low-priority notification. What I want is for it to ring for calls and text messages, but only vibrate for emails and facebook notifications. There's probably some way of doing that, I guess.
You can easily set per-thing notifications. What didn't work?
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 ..
I don't think jammers are the right way to deal with the "loud talkers" problem - they also block emergency calls. What if someone who lives above the restaurant needs an ambulance? What if someone in the restaurant gets an emergency call from their spouse?
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#119Idea No. 4 is implemented by Cloud9 very well; http://c9.io
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#120If I've understood #1 correctly, this year's node knockout winner does exactly this. http://observer.no.de/features The demo appears to be buggy, but they seem to have something substantial in the works. From the website: Please note that Observer was build during the Node Knock Out, a 48 hour coding competition. The commercial version currently in developement, this free service will stay online as long as there are…
http://userfly.com/ also does this