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I'm the opposite, too many ideas, no time to make them all.
Propose HN: Give me an Idea for a Startup
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#12I've worked for a company a couple of months that hit a hot spot on the mortgage market (oh nooooos....;-). They really compare all the products of lenders and give advice to independent advisors and consumers what to do. It makes all the products transparant and even has an overview of terms and conditions etc.
This has been done in the Netherlands before, but not so thorough as they do. If implemented right, it can be huge in any country. It is based on a subscription model per (part of) year.
Re: Propose HN: Give me an Idea for a Startup
#13there was this thread a couple of days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=747003 If there is nothing in there for you let me know and I'll dig around some more in my attic :)
You have some great suggestions there, I would love to hear more (simpler ones if you have any, for a person just starting out with web technologies).
Ok, I'll do some more digging later (busy now... shouldn't even be here ... hm, that noprocrast starts to look good :) )
Re: Propose HN: Give me an Idea for a Startup
#14"I have your cold". 1. Get people to tell you when they're sick and what symptoms they have. 2. Get access to their social network (facebook app, email contact list, etc) and figure out who they got their cold from. 3. Tell users who got them sick and what they should expect (e.g., "looks like you picked up Joe's cold, but don't worry -- it's mild and you should recover by the weekend"). Possible future directions: 1…
cool Idea and really useful.
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#15I like to read street smarts at inc.com the guy invest on any startup and gets 75% of its shares, but 50% will sell back to the guy with the idea at investment value.
So for a successful startup, the guy who puts the money ends with 50% back of the initial investment and 25% of ownership of the new business.
It would be great to have all this throughout a website and be done by many people.
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#16"I have your cold". 1. Get people to tell you when they're sick and what symptoms they have. 2. Get access to their social network (facebook app, email contact list, etc) and figure out who they got their cold from. 3. Tell users who got them sick and what they should expect (e.g., "looks like you picked up Joe's cold, but don't worry -- it's mild and you should recover by the weekend"). Possible future directions: 1…
that's a good one!
Re: Propose HN: Give me an Idea for a Startup
#17"I have your cold". 1. Get people to tell you when they're sick and what symptoms they have. 2. Get access to their social network (facebook app, email contact list, etc) and figure out who they got their cold from. 3. Tell users who got them sick and what they should expect (e.g., "looks like you picked up Joe's cold, but don't worry -- it's mild and you should recover by the weekend"). Possible future directions: 1…
This is funny to me for some reason, but still a good idea!
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#18"I have your cold". 1. Get people to tell you when they're sick and what symptoms they have. 2. Get access to their social network (facebook app, email contact list, etc) and figure out who they got their cold from. 3. Tell users who got them sick and what they should expect (e.g., "looks like you picked up Joe's cold, but don't worry -- it's mild and you should recover by the weekend"). Possible future directions: 1…
I wanted to do that for Twitter, just for fun :-) Wouldn't even require active participation, because presumably most people Twitter about feeling sick anyway.
It should be mentioned that Google already does some kind of flu tracking, too. Too lazy to look for the link, but I think they pick up on increased searches for flu related stuff, and show it on a map and with trend charts.
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#19..:: Twitter[1] Train Station Availability ::..
Twitter HTML Status Page gateway so that commuters on twitter (lets say Streeters ) can tweet which stations are closed, or how long journeys are taking.
Streeters tweet to a protocol e.g. ::
@tubechannel: s:Canary Wharf e:Bond Street 50m
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If you gave Streeters Karma, you could filter out the trolls (hope above experience)
Other commuters read your Status Page and see Google Adsense advertising.
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[1] I don't use twitter, please forgive any slight format unrealities
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#20An enterprise-level application called SITS is heavily used by UK universities and colleges to manage courses, degree programs, student records and timetabling (for classes and exams).
SITS is cumbersome, expensive and has a truly appalling user experience. It is painful to use.
SITs is a very bad system but is deeply entrenched. Making something that is better should be very, very easy. Getting UK universities to switch should be very, very difficult.
Solve this and make many millions.