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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by zvanness » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 6:48 PM UTC

A search engine for knowledge and facts.

I think there's huge value in a search engine of knowledge and facts, where all sources are verified. A search engine that is objective and contains no opinions, crappy blogs or tweets, content farms. A search engine where you can't game your rankings through SEO techniques or through higher add spend.

Google is amazing. Google Search is going to be here for a long time. I doubt anyone will be able to come up with a solid replacement. But one of the current problems with Google is that they have too much information.

So far, i've put together a tiny version of this concept, which i've found very useful when i'm trying to learn new things or do some research. I would love to see some smarter people turn it into something more.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by hooande » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 6:48 PM UTC

A solution for the "too many tabs open" problem. Need a way to save my history in an organized and interactive manner, with a nice looking UI. Sort of like the old WebMynd (http://webmynd.com). I find that most of my tabs are open as a form of reminder. If I close it, I'll forget it and might as well not have seen it. Same if I hide it away in some kind of bookmarking app. I think it would be best to apply a UI layer over my entire history in a way that makes it easy to search and recall things that I found interesting int he past.

Need to store all data locally for privacy reasons, and have a way to logically group urls by content and bring them back to the front occasionally (maybe with some kind of gamification?) so they don't disappear.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by adam419 » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 6:48 PM UTC

A way to submit any legal document, and for a fee have it returned but explained in plain english.

What do you guys think about this? And what do you think are the most common use cases/legal documents?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by jedberg » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 6:49 PM UTC

I like live shows. I would like a website that lists all the live shows in my area. Like "show me all shows at Shoreline". I haven't found a single site that tells me this.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by telot » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 6:49 PM UTC

zgm wrote: post #43

There was a discussion on an earlier thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7489401 ) about bringing App Stores to servers. Would people use and/or pay for something like this?

Untangle is a firewall with its own app store, and it works great! It's hard to imagine a firewall app store, but once you start using it, it just makes sense.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#76

Post by grinich » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 6:49 PM UTC

lukasm wrote: post #46

Spotify released iOS SDK. Can someone make an app that will just have one button? Just play the goddamn music. I think Spotify works on the wrong level of abstraction. It should work exactly like a radio. Many people just want to listen some good music for running, relaxing etc. They couldn't care less about following artists and making playlists. Also, I'd like to be able to play it while I'm on a train. Pre-fech 30…

Songza is pretty great for this.

http://songza.com/

iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/songza/id453111583?mt=8

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by Houshalter » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 6:51 PM UTC

quaunaut wrote: post #47

This is less an idea, more something for someone to think about. We need to figure out how to defeat the internet echo chamber effect. Notice how often, when a community gets started between a small group of people(such as early Reddit or HN), it's a place of intelligent, productive discussion, where people measure what they say instead of just spouting extreme rhetoric? Yet, once these communities grow, you inevitab…

I don't think you can solve it because it's not the platform, it's the userbase. Although voting systems to highly encourage downvoting/upvoting based on whether you agree or not. An idea I've had is to rank all content separately for each user, by predicting what content they will upvote or downvote.

At first it sounds like this would exaggerate the echo chamber effect, but I think it would do the exact opposite. There's no reason to downvote or upvote things because you agree or disagree, downvotes only affect what you see in the future and no one else sees them. And instead of different ideologies being pushed away into different communities, they all exist in the same place, occasionally interacting with each other and mixing.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#78

Post by MrMeker » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 6:52 PM UTC

nemo1618 wrote: post #58

I have a strange fascination with knowing exactly how I discovered a particular artist, film, website, etc. I'd really love a browser extension that could keep track of how the user reached a given site. Then they could go back later and input, say, a YouTube URL, and it would show exactly what lead them to that song. I started writing such an extension myself, but I was clearly out of my element. So when Mozilla shu…

This already exists for most browsers. Pressing Ctrl+H should take you right to it.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#79

Post by rahilsondhi » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 6:52 PM UTC

A website for employees in a company to share SQL queries and their results, like Heroku Dataclips. You can write your query in your browser, the results will be shown, and you can just copy/paste the URL to a coworker for him/her to see the results.

I'm already working on this, contact me if you're interested!

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by Blahah » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 6:53 PM UTC

nemo1618 wrote: post #58

I have a strange fascination with knowing exactly how I discovered a particular artist, film, website, etc. I'd really love a browser extension that could keep track of how the user reached a given site. Then they could go back later and input, say, a YouTube URL, and it would show exactly what lead them to that song. I started writing such an extension myself, but I was clearly out of my element. So when Mozilla shu…

This is a very cool idea - for me the application would be more in research, when quite often I stumble across an idea, or go back to read an open tab, or read my Pocket, and when I want to see how I discovered it, can't figure out how I got there. Just a simple graph of history chains would be great.