A device that sits in your toilet (under the water level) and detects trace amounts of blood or other stuff that shouldn't be in urine or stool
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#482A wiki-style spoiler-free website for catching up with TV series/books. For instance, you've only watched Game of Thrones up to series 2, episode 3. You're about to start watching it again but can't remember what Daenerys was getting up to. You go to the Game of Thrones page on that website, pick your series and episode, and choose "Daenerys" as a tag filter. It brings up all the major plot points relating to her up…
This does seem like a rather interesting idea.
However, how might one implement this while remaining concise? For example, say a user tells the Wiki they are in S1E02; the Wiki would provide a synopsis of the events relating to the specified tag up till that point in the series. However, imagine a user tells the Wiki that they want the same specified tag up until S3E10. That surely complicates things as far more major plot points are likely to have occurred. How would this be handled? Would it just be what the user at S1E02 was told plus everything after and up until S3E10 tacked on to the end?
To further illustrate this idea, consider the following: User receives two (2) plot points when selecting S1E02 User receives seven (7) plot points when selecting S2E07 User receives (13) plot points when selecting S3E01 ...
It would be interesting if the synopsis provided could summarize dynamically based on what point the user was caught up to in the given series. I've no clue how that would be implemented, though, short of someone going in and writing a response that would keep it concise for every episode that a user could select.
(This isn't my most concise comment on the internet. I'm sorry.)
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#483A place where developers can post their already launched projects, and business/marketing/sales people can get in touch with them if they're interested in becoming a cofounder . I'm sure I'm not the only one who gets all excited about building and launching new stuff, but after that, I'm kind of clueless about what to do, so I move on to the next.
Biz/Marketing guy here: I'd actively use this for multiple motivations.
-Financial support, especially if project has potential for eventually passive returns.
-Growth marketing portfolio, for leverage on future marketing projects and consulting work.
-Positive impact, dependent on nature of project.
-Cofounder pre-trial: work together with smart hackers with potential to collaborate on future projects if fit is good.
Thinking of ways to position this and sources to share it already.
Really: if someone were interested in building something like this out and able to seed initial dev projects, I'd be happy to help.
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#484A website that lets you watch the second episode of many television shows. The pilot episode, I feel, is usually not indicative of the direction/feeling of the show, or is concerned with setting up the backstory, whereas the second episode sets the direction for where the show is going.
Couldn't you already do this with Netflix or Hulu? Just start with the 2nd episode?
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#485Netflix for Sports. But not quite the same. There wouldn't be just 1 subscription were you get all. You would be able to pay per game and as well a pass for all games of a certain team.
You would be able to watch any games live or any other time of your convenience. It would be cool also to have just 'a show main highlights of the game'.
Prices per game should be relatively cheap, like 1.99 or 2.99; except some cases like championship finals.
I would try first to secure the rights to show some of the European soccer leagues and championships as they should be easier to get than any of the main American leagues. Hopefully none of the US networks have an exclusivity agreement.
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#486A 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 lay…
If you use Chrome, check out OneTab. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbo...
This functionality is build into chrome. Just right click the tab strip and the bottom option is "Bookmark all Tabs" or use the CTRL+SHIFT+D shortcut. Then they are just saved as tabs in a folder which has the benefit that they show up in address bar searches and are backed up via chrome sync.
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#487Earlier quoted context omitted.
And where exactly would it drain to? Your toilet's output is plugged, thus causing the overflow, remember?
Behold! http://postimg.org/image/ecyg84yof/
Overflow completely overrides the effect of S-bend. There is a (pretty important) reason behind S-bends.
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#488A web API that consumes phone camera captured photos of nutritional labels, and spits back a structured JSON response of the data. Primary consumers would be developers who're building products that depend on the user inputting this type of data - or warehouse logistics companies who could catalog this sort of data and middleman it to everyone else.
The product should already have a UPC code that is trivial to capture. From there, it would be a simple matter of looking up that code to map it to its nutrition information. There may even be databases (eg: FDA) where this is available. MyFitnessPal seems to have the nutritional info on just about every product I've scanned, and I can't tell if they crowdsourced all that data input and/or if they seeded it with some…
I believe it's crowdsourced. There are many items I eat that they don't have in their database. The app allows you to submit the nutrition info to their database and it gets recognized afterwards. MyFitnessPal is very popular. They should have one of the biggest databases out there.
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#489Netflix for Sports. But not quite the same. There wouldn't be just 1 subscription were you get all. You would be able to pay per game and as well a pass for all games of a certain team. You would be able to watch any games live or any other time of your convenience. It would be cool also to have just 'a show main highlights of the game'. Prices per game should be relatively cheap, like 1.99 or 2.99; except some cases…
> I would try first to secure the rights to show some of the European soccer leagues and championships as they should be easier to get than any of the main American leagues.
Maybe the Lithuanian 3rd Division. European soccer leagues cost a fortune to get rights for:
UK Premiership: £1.78bn [1] UK Third Division: £88mn [2]
Annoyingly I couldn't find actual costs on much else, but my point is that European soccer is huge, and you won't pick up the rights cheaply.
[1] http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/fans/faqs/how-much-clubs-... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_League_Championship#Br...
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#490Fair warning, I'm kind of a sarcastic person, and most of my ideas tend to reflect that... If you actually want to work on one of these, go for it! Just please let me know as I'd like to hear about it (and if you'd like, maybe help out where I can). Contact details in my profile page. My three latest ideas with variations: #1: Kitty cooker social game (please don't actually build this): Basically Cow Clicker meets pr…
In regards to #1, you might be interested in "Mewgenics", the follow up to super meat boy. http://mewgenics.com/
Given the teaser video, I'm really not sure what to make of that...