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Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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An app that tracks your forum activity and displays all your private messages, thread subscriptions, etc. all in one app.

Kind of like a mint.com of internet activities? I like the idea. I'm not sure how easy it would be to be exhaustive. I can see how you could add the regular places you hang out at. Casual comments would be harder to track but a bookmarklet could help there.

But isn't that kind of like a YC startup? I forgot the name though but I remember the website being a place where you could follow people's comments on blogs. Is your idea focused on forums?

I like the idea.

Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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fwiw, perfectlygoodideas.com is available right now. perhaps someone could use the uclassify api to classify & cluster similar ideas & recommend partnerships. no idea how well it would work, but it might be worth a an hour or two on a weekend to find out. im just thinking out loud here :)

I really like that idea. domain name taken :) -- i presume you didn't want to do this since you didn't buy it yourself.

If I get to it this weekend, I'll submit to HN when I have something ready. Thanks for mentioning uclassify -- I hadn't heard of it.

Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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A full-on reputational economy.

Email prioritizing based on karma? High karma could move your mail towards top of the pile for people that don't know you (VIP). Or posts/mails could be filtered based on karma thresholds.

That's a perfectly good application of a reputational economy. There's pretty much infinite possibility. I'm not sure if it has been explored in fiction better than Doctorow's Down and Out Magic Kingdom, about a post-scarcity, post-singularity society with a reputational economy. http://craphound.com/down/ Available free online under a CC license.

Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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How many Reddit points will a Hacker News point be worth?

I guess someone will have to build the karma derivatives trading platform...

Oh man... with 30:1 leverage I could make a killing.
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