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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by monk_e_boy »

Web filter. I love F1 and there is a race today, so I can't look at 99% of the internet as they will show the result. I will watch the race later when the kids have gone to bed.

This problem is so big that i have to avoid facebook becaue they also show trending news.

So a filter that filters F1 or any selectable sports news. Then when i turn it off after watching the race the filter shows me a list of what news it found and filtered for me.

Added extra, while i'm watching the race it could show me tweets in real time, but back shifted so as to make sense with the race.

My football loving buddie also agrees he'd pay for this filter.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by refrigerator »

Alex3917 wrote: post #42
refrigerator wrote: post #24

[X-post from the previous Idea Sunday thread that didn't make it to the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7616132 ] Idea: a new way to purchase and set up a fish tank. Currently, you have two options: a) Buy everything separately - tank, filter, heater, plants, fish. You have to find out whether your fish and plants are compatible and your tank is big enough for what you want etc. You have to figure ou…

Why not just have something like pcpartpicker.com, where every time you select a component it only shows other components that are compatible with the ones you've already selected? I think that would be the most useful, so that way you could either start with the fish and it would show you what hardware you can get, or else you could start with the hardware and it would show you what fish you can get.

Yeah that's exactly what I have in mind!

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by ohwp »

refrigerator wrote: post #24

[X-post from the previous Idea Sunday thread that didn't make it to the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7616132 ] Idea: a new way to purchase and set up a fish tank. Currently, you have two options: a) Buy everything separately - tank, filter, heater, plants, fish. You have to find out whether your fish and plants are compatible and your tank is big enough for what you want etc. You have to figure ou…

Sounds a little like Elos: http://www.elos.eu/productlines/aquariums/index.html

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#54

Post by Theodores »

siruva07 wrote: post #4

I'm responsible for purchasing our computer equipment for our startup. Every time I make a purchase on our company (@MakeSpace) credit card, I have to remember to send an email to our accountants (record the purchase as an asset, depreciation for taxes, etc). More importantly, it's hard to keep track of what equipment was given to each employee. I imagine at a larger company this would be handled by an IT department,…

Someone can sell/make you a tool for that however you can also do it yourself with a simple Google Docs spreadsheet. Your accountant will understand it as will anyone else that has to maintain it. You get versioning built in so you can see who has changed what. Plus you can make it read only.

Regarding the receipts, have a folder and just give the receipts a simple date-supplier-what-for filename. You could probably paste the hyperlinks into your spreadsheet if you could be bothered. If you can't then they are easy enough to find.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by marpalmin »

A kind of task rabbit that will connect expats ( who don't speak the language) with locals. The idea is that the local will help the expat in small tasks like understanding an insurance policy, housing contract, employment receipt.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#56

Post by hunvreus »

Buetol wrote: post #17

An anonymous and representative group discussion and voting system Practical example: Attending a conf as a woman - You want to ask questions during the talks but you are afraid that because you are a woman your answer will be "dumbed-down" or just different - Also, the guy doing the talk would like to answer the best possible question (or a random one) So, there can be a lot of solutions to this problem, here is min…

Something like Secret would do the trick no?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by heartbreak »

siruva07 wrote: post #14
dsfreed wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not positive, but perhaps expensify would suit your needs? https://www.expensify.com/

More along the lines of an application that would do inventory management: http://www.businessbee.com/resources/technology/essential-el... I've been googling but can't find anything

Asset tracking software is probably more along the lines of what you're looking for.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by monk_e_boy »

Lambdanaut wrote: post #33

Let's take 3D printing to the circuit board world. A consumer machine that can be configured to takes as inputs: 1. A set of different electrical part. (Perhaps self-contained in a large box like printer ink is) 2. A circuit board schematic file The machine cuts the board and solders the parts in. And there you have it! Your own computer factory! (For limited definitions of "computer") If this idea ever piques anyone…

It'd so cool to use these printed boards to fit a laptop shell. So you could choose from a bunch of components, gps, extra cooling, ssd, hdd, video chips, and get them custom fit for a case.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#59

Post by keithwarren »

RAID Arrays for online storage services.

So many services offer a free tier, maybe 5gb for free and then you pay after that. Some are much higher. Build sort of a proxy to these services so that you have a distributed and large free online storage system.

This was an idea my team had last year when we were looking closely at a photo organization and management startup. We had won a startup competition, had investors tender offers but in the end we decided not to pursue the idea primarily because the storage business absolutely sucks, and photo systems are inherently storage businesses. This idea of 'BYOS' (Bring your own storage) was one of the hacks we thought up to get around the problem but in the end customer discovery taught us that the idea had too much friction for most people. Tech folks loved it, 35 year old moms didn't.

You can simply start with a few of the larger players, use the service to connect your free DropBox, Google Drive and OneDrive accounts. There may even be a monetization option wherein as you approach saturation of the storage you push the user to sign up with a specific vendor for a discounted deal and that other vendor can be a partner company or your own storage medium.

It has to be simple and transparent though, you still want people to have that simply sync experience regardless of where the file is stored and they should be able to view all the files across all the services at one time, regardless of where they are physically stored.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by siruva07 »

Theodores wrote: post #54
siruva07 wrote: post #4

I'm responsible for purchasing our computer equipment for our startup. Every time I make a purchase on our company (@MakeSpace) credit card, I have to remember to send an email to our accountants (record the purchase as an asset, depreciation for taxes, etc). More importantly, it's hard to keep track of what equipment was given to each employee. I imagine at a larger company this would be handled by an IT department,…

Someone can sell/make you a tool for that however you can also do it yourself with a simple Google Docs spreadsheet. Your accountant will understand it as will anyone else that has to maintain it. You get versioning built in so you can see who has changed what. Plus you can make it read only. Regarding the receipts, have a folder and just give the receipts a simple date-supplier-what-for filename. You could probably…

"you can do it yourself with a simple Google Doc"

Isn't this how ZeroCater got started?

The features for this (act 2) make it very interesting. Imagine one slick sell to post to CL / Ebay.

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