Creating food forests in cities - changing "traditional" city landscaping into perennial forageable forests - fruit & nut trees, berry bushes, etc
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#12Whale farming - building the containment nets is probably tricky, but if you had a big enough area to cordon off in the ocean, you could raise them for meat etc
...Why whales? Aren't like regular fish farms going to work better?
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#13A replacement for Uservoice that doesn't suck - a public/whitelabelable RFE service that companies could subscribe to (SaaS) or deploy and manage on-prem
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#14Whale farming - building the containment nets is probably tricky, but if you had a big enough area to cordon off in the ocean, you could raise them for meat etc
...Why whales? Aren't like regular fish farms going to work better?
Why not (other than the space constraints)?
I don't know if it's a good idea, but it's an idea
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
minus the RFID ... sounds mildly similar to cloth diaper services: you subscribe to X many per week, and they're delivered with the soiled ones picked up in exchange Of course ... you're not guaranteed to get the same cloth diapers back on the next delivery :)
That is one inspiration of course. My town is too small for something like that but if it can work for something as specific as diapers I think it would work for all kinds of other stuff.
It definitely works on less "personal" / more standardized items (like diapers, uniforms (the cleaning service would come once a week when I worked at Hertz, dropping off X-many pants and shirts in the right size, and take the dirty ones to be cleaned), etc)
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#16Creating food forests in cities - changing "traditional" city landscaping into perennial forageable forests - fruit & nut trees, berry bushes, etc
I'd worry about pests. I've done some food forest type stuff and you can run into pest problems pretty easily. Rats and pigeons and all that. Rats will eat under-ripe fruits before humans can harvest them, and for taller trees like apple trees windfall apples will litter the street.
I think you need some kind of animal to clean up food waste from food forests and even traditional farms, and you'd really like that to be deer and not rats. Deer aren't really compatible with an urban environment.
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#17A way to crowdsource patronage - everything/everybody seems to be asking for subscriptional support (Patreon or the like)
I would love to support a lot of the creators I know more personally ... but if I were to add-up even the $1/mo they each ask for, I'd be into the $100s a month easily ... so I live with the ads they have
Something a la Brave Browser's tokens, though, would be great - pitch, say, $50 into a "patronage bucket", and then pay a penny for every page/video/podcast/song/etc you read/watch/listen to OR allow the ads to load/display/stream
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#18A way to integrate digital conversations a la mind mapping[0] or a Zettelkasten[1] - allowing for branching, parallel conversations (that could be remerged later (eg like git's development branch concepts)), private conversations (which might be ephemeral (disappearing after X period of time (like Snapchat, Signal, Telegram, etc offer - or like unlogged IM clients, irc, etc)) chats)
Bring all your social media, messaging apps, and email into a single app
If you want to add someone to a conversation they were not previously in, you could have a set of approvals that need to be granted by X-many members of the chat group to allow/disallow certain content items to be visible
Being able to easily search across all those communication mediums would be a godsend - can't remember if you sent something to Bob via Messenger, Signal, or email? Open this tool, and they are all in one place
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#19Enabling libraries to become print-on-demand centers for public domain / out of print / old / unusual works
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#20A sort of "temporary building constructor"
like a LEGO for sheds, made from small
pieces like interlocking plates/hinge blocks of standard size
to build cube-like shapes extending from each
other like Minecraft blocks.