A law firm connected to a school where the lawyers make $30/hour and the teachers make $200/hour. ;-)
Brainstorm HN: Outlandish Startup Ideas Pool
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#82A washer/dryer combo that works as a single unit, so that you don't have to move things manually from one to the other. I see it as a 2 story contraption, washer on top, dryer on the bottom. After the washer is done, a trap door opens and the clothes fall into the dryer, which then auto-starts. As you can guess, I was doing laundry recently
Already exists. These are the norm in Europe, I have no idea why they're not popular in the US. We Europeans enjoy mocking antiquated American home appliances and can't believe you still use stovetop kettles and blenders from the 1950s. http://www.gelighting.com/apo/products/appliances/clothes_ca... It looks like a regular washing machine, you just put your clothes in the front, set the buttons, and 2 hours later the…
And of course, the Asians wonder why you have to set the buttons, when figuring out how to wash the load is a task better suited for artificial stupidity than human concern.
E.g. http://www.in.lge.com/Product/Products-Details.aspx?cat=137&...
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#835 Star Jail Hotel (good for procrastinators).
Pay us and we will lock you up for as many days as you paid. You get one hour per day to hang out within our establishment. Breakfast, Lunch and Diner are eaten with other prisoners. The rest of time we will lock you up in your room (with internet connection). Phones lines are only open for x hours. Emails programs are blocked most of the time... You see where I am heading with this.
It could be good for someone with a deadline to accomplish something.
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#84develop a crossplatform webinterface to read any and every format of text conceivable in its most CONVENIENT form possible.
Sort of like Readability by Arc90?
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#85Train chimps to break CAPTCHAs. My guess is that it's feasible. E.g, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTgeLEWr614 It is, however, unethical, and isn't something that benefits society, despite the fact that a viable business model might exist in the short term. Note that this would give a whole new meaning to the phrase 'Captcha farm' :-)
Chimps are way too expensive
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
I owned one of these when I lived in a studio in Avalon Apartments in SF. They're not very good at drying though (or at least my model didn't work so well).
I've used at least a dozen different ones. They all suck compared with dedicated washer/dryers. Besides that, it seriously slows you down if you want to wash a lot of stuff.
Yeah I've had experience with a couple and they were terrible. One would just boil your clothes for an hour so when you took them out they would be creased beyond hope of any iron, and still wet.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
I owned one of these when I lived in a studio in Avalon Apartments in SF. They're not very good at drying though (or at least my model didn't work so well).
I've used at least a dozen different ones. They all suck compared with dedicated washer/dryers. Besides that, it seriously slows you down if you want to wash a lot of stuff.
I don't think I've been especially lucky, as I've had 3 of them at different times and they all worked OK. Caveat: they were all in Europe. Perhaps the ones sold in the US are deliberately sucky so as to drive you into wanting two specialized units?
Edit: might be a 220v vs 110v issue as well.
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#88every day one person dies in a high speed chase. street spikes work if you can get them down and back up again before the chase car runs over them. there must be a way to shut a car down by addressing its computer system with rfid or something.
EMP guns FTW - http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2004/jul/12/sciencenews.cr... Bonus: they scare luddites, who are convinced these are used all the time to kill people the Illuminati hate by making them fly in a small plane during bad weather first.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Already exists. These are the norm in Europe, I have no idea why they're not popular in the US. We Europeans enjoy mocking antiquated American home appliances and can't believe you still use stovetop kettles and blenders from the 1950s. http://www.gelighting.com/apo/products/appliances/clothes_ca... It looks like a regular washing machine, you just put your clothes in the front, set the buttons, and 2 hours later the…
I hope these links are somewhat more helpful, though the blenders aren't much different than those in the states. http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_?url=search-alias%3D... http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_?url=search-alias%3D... http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_?url=search-alias%3D...
Yeah better. I just grabbed the first linked that looked relevant. I was amazed anyone would not know about these.
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#90I'm tired of sex shops that ship their products using discrete packaging. I want a store that ships products in packaging purposely designed to be as embarrassing as is plausibly possible. Charge double what a normal sex store does, and even if you only get a few hundred orders a day via Google you still have a decent business.
The perfect gift for the person who has everything!
This startup needs one hacker, and three dozen lawyers.