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Brainstorm HN: Outlandish Startup Ideas Pool

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#61
Think pmsbuddy.com meets Babelfish meets the Mechanical Turk.

The idea is simple: submit transcripts of your conversations with your wife to the site, and women will translate for you.

"she said "fine." She really means she is pissed off."

For a fee, the site may also offer real-time chats for those situations where you need to figure out what a woman is thinking NOW.

Re: Brainstorm HN: Outlandish Startup Ideas Pool

#63

I have three great ideas for startups that fit this request. 1.) scambledporn.com - If you can remember tv before it went digital, porn used to be scambled by varying the horizontal sync of the tv signal for that channel. This made it unwatchable, unless you were really really patience. My idea is to create a website that has porn that works on the same concept; it would be scrambled until people pay to have it unscr…

You actually just gave me a great idea...CPA porn. Complete CPA offers, get access to porn. Perfect, because that way no credit card is involved...

Re: Brainstorm HN: Outlandish Startup Ideas Pool

#64

I have three great ideas for startups that fit this request. 1.) scambledporn.com - If you can remember tv before it went digital, porn used to be scambled by varying the horizontal sync of the tv signal for that channel. This made it unwatchable, unless you were really really patience. My idea is to create a website that has porn that works on the same concept; it would be scrambled until people pay to have it unscr…

You actually just gave me a great idea...CPA porn. Complete CPA offers, get access to porn. Perfect, because that way no credit card is involved...

Why not extend it into a Cory Doctorow Woofie system?

I do a favor for you, woofies.com gives me a couple woofie points, which I may redeem for pron. My favor backfires (buggy code, typos, etc) and my woofie karma suffers and I must suffer pron of worse quality.

Viva la Bitchun society irl!

Note that this is completely unrealistic because no one pays for pron anymore anyway.

Re: Brainstorm HN: Outlandish Startup Ideas Pool

#65
post #5

1. Go on a diet. 2. Open [web|desktop] app. 3. Select diet plan (atkins; south beach; XYZ etc). 4. Select number of people in household. 5. Select number of people on diet. 6. Select dietary options (eg gluten-free). 7. Select budget. 8. Add credentials and payment details for preferred online grocery store. 9. App notes diet plan and previous shopping activity to reduce duplication, finds recipes and extracts ingred…

Also, partner up with Whole Foods/Winn Dixie/Publix so they have your groceries packaged and ready to go, skip the actual shopping part.

Re: Brainstorm HN: Outlandish Startup Ideas Pool

#66

Think pmsbuddy.com meets Babelfish meets the Mechanical Turk. The idea is simple: submit transcripts of your conversations with your wife to the site, and women will translate for you. "she said "fine." She really means she is pissed off." For a fee, the site may also offer real-time chats for those situations where you need to figure out what a woman is thinking NOW.

We have that already: http://www.fmylife.com/

;)

Re: Brainstorm HN: Outlandish Startup Ideas Pool

#68
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Hire a bunch of people to walk around large markets in other countries, such as India, with wireless webcams attached to their heads. Shoppers can then direct these people to various stands, barter, and purchase stuff through a web interface.

Something cool would be to actually inventory large markets in other countries, or go there and give them a web presence.

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#69
A online grocery store comparison shopping. Data is customer driven and pulled from the weekly shopper. Reciepts can be scanned in and processed to keep track of shopping. Shopping lists can be entered online to be cross checked against the closest grocery stores (you get to decide if going to 2 stores is worth saving $10 extra) and sent to your phone. Online grocers(amazon) even get in the mix to provide deals and free shipping. And why stop there, why not alcohol too...

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#70

A Woot.com for travel Unlike other last min travel sites, this would offer just 1 product per day with 0 or 1 options Example: "2 nights at the Edgewater Seattle 6/1-6/3 for $179 total" OR "2 RT tix LAX Vegas + 2 nights at Bellagio for $379 total 6/1-6/3" Just need to find some travel companies who are willing to work with you. They just need to agree to block off X number of rooms/flights for that date. If the site…

In New Zealand/Australia there is a site for one of the airlines that sort of does this: http://flightbookings.airnewzealand.co.nz/vgrabview/en_NZ/

Its specific to only that airline, but they sometimes have packages too and refresh every night, kiwi standard time i think

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