zipcar/uber: A service that delivers a car you drive to where you are when you want it. Maybe you call up an hour before or via an app. And/or the opposite: you have driven somewhere can don't want the car anymore - eg drinking.
Taxi?
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#102Airbnb, but paid with labor. Many travelers are short on cash but would love to trade services for a night's stay. Me, I would be happy to host a guest for free provided they did my dishes or laundry. Many homeowners, especially empty-nesters, have homes with plenty of space that they still have to maintain. This would provide benefits to both parties.
hm, this could have some legal / human rights issues potentially.
So does Airbnb...
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#103A site which keeps track of which of these 'Idea Sunday' ideas actually got implemented and how are they doing 1 year, 2 years, 5 years or 10 years later. Will give empirical data only how powerful are ideas.
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#104Web 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 fo…
I have exactly the same dilemma (but because I download the coverage from back home in the UK rather than suffer the terrible American coverage).
I thought about building a proxy but simple name-blocking is too broad given names like "Button", and some headlines don't contain other easily matched patterns like "grand prix". EG "Button wins thrilling battle" or "Williams duo take epic one-two"
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd like it if the buyer could add a note to credit card purchases - that show up in the monthly bill. PO number is the most obvious thing to add. But for your typical customer you might also want to add "lunch with mom" or anything.
This is less about expense tracking than it is about actually keeping track of all the equipment we've purchased for our startup.
If you google "asset management software" you should have tons to choose from.
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#106Web 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 fo…
That sounds like the job for a GreaseMonkey script :)
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#107Web 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 fo…
I don't have HBO, so filtering all Game of Thrones references every Sunday and Monday would be fantastic. Not sure I'd pay for that service since it's probably easier to just pay for HBO and watch it "live" like everyone else.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't have HBO, so filtering all Game of Thrones references every Sunday and Monday would be fantastic. Not sure I'd pay for that service since it's probably easier to just pay for HBO and watch it "live" like everyone else.
I thought the same thing, but unfortunately a lot of spoilers come in the form of images. Or maybe fortunately, since it adds an interesting layer of complexity to this idea.
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#109Just going to throw this one out there. I live in Lisbon, it's tourist-central (I'm from SF and I've never seen so many tourists). Since I see a ton of lost people every single day there should be a way to digitally leave comments on things and places and a free one-stop shop to find such info (like Wikitravel). This info, although having a central repository, should be pushed out to an app that connects to one's pho…
I really love this idea. Reddit-ish, but sort by proximity to location as well as quality score. That way, if you are in a densely commented area, you will see comments about your surrounding few meters/yards, but if you are in a less trafficked area you might see comments on your feed about something a few miles/km away, giving you a destination.
Rather than 'fencing' regions then, if it could be done to just sort proximity that way, it would be incredibly useful even while sparsely populated.
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#110Sell anything in a snap. 1. Find something you want to sell 2. Snap a picture (or a short video) 3. Tap "list for sale" 4. Let mechanical turk + computer vision identify the object 5. Let the system pick a value (based on sales history, location, demand) 6. Contact the seller when a serious buyer made a deposit 7. Proceed to demo + sale I shouldn't have to write down any spec when selling something as ubiquitous as a…
Already done:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6660089
http://i.imgur.com/mmPAztu.png
I didn't get much interest so I didn't bother building it :)