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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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A bit lame maybe but here it goes: The "Ready for Battle alarm clock". An alarm clock that wakes you up with your favourite quotes from video games or movies such as: - Rise and shine, Mister Freeman. Rise and... shine. Not that I... wish to imply you have been sleeping on the job. No one is more deserving of a rest, and all the effort in the world would have gone to waste until... well, let's just say your hour has.…

The right man at the wrong place makes all the difference!! ;)

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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A simple service for setting up and running jobs/workers without having to run a server.

Ideally, it would have the following features:

* Pay once, run forever (pay for the job up front and never again -- no recurring billing to worry about)

* Configure once, run forever (use Docker/LXC in the background to allow custom environments and absolve the user of the dependency headaches that can arise when running multiple jobs on a single machine)

* Easy to use

I've been casually working on this as it's a pain point I've experienced numerous times (e.g., running a daily job that should cost ~50 cents per month, which is substantially below any available VM price).

Would anybody use this? Other thoughts?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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WP plugin to charge for guest posts. As a blogger for last 10 years, I think someone should consider providing WP blogs with ability to charge for guest posts. That can be done either as a single time purchase (for a single guest post) or as a recurring payment (i.e. monthly charge for unlimited or predetermined number of guest posts per month). The purchaser makes a payment and opens an account, and then is redirect…

Matt Cutts has said recently[0] that guest blogging should be avoided.

[0]: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/guest-blogging/

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Earlier 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.

So, whats wrong with the spreadsheet?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#145

Ok I'll go first. It's an "Imgur for audio files". Now there's times when you record an audio and want to share it. What do you do? Uhh,, umm.... Yup. exactly. There's no reliable, easy-to-use app to share audio files (not music). So, this is a web/mobile app for easily uploading and sharing audio files, and playing them. I don't have a full plan laid out, but I'll work on it for sure. (If you'd like to be notified w…

For all media files I use https://mediacru.sh/ simple, awesome , fast and opensource

I uploaded a binary, and it tried to play it: https://mediacru.sh/RfFfk7QAJqLY

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#146
Build a company around creating a best in class development environment that they can sell to other tech companies. This would involve everything from repository management (on top of git) to build & compilation tooling to automated testing and probably more than that eventually.

Once companies reach a certain scale they inevitably expend some of their resources on building internal development tools. At Foursquare we have 1 person (on a team of ~80) doing this fulltime. Google has spent a ton of effort on this with blaze. Facebook & Twitter have done similar work. But it's all fragmented and it's all reinventing the wheel.

A company should do this right for everyone. If it was good enough I'd happily write very very large checks to use it.

Honestly I think this is what GitHub should be doing, but they don't appear to have their shit together enough to innovate so someone else should do it.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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This might be fairly simple, but I can't find a good solution - A replacement for Google Groups. More specifically, a better UI to use Mailing Lists. Perhaps like vBulletin or other advance forum software. Maybe even built-in support in my email client? For the life of me, I can't find a good way to use Mailing Lists. I don't like receiving 40+ messages every day, but I don't find digest mode good enough either. Goog…

Have you tried Discourse? It's Jeff Atwood's open source forum software.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#148

This might be fairly simple, but I can't find a good solution - A replacement for Google Groups. More specifically, a better UI to use Mailing Lists. Perhaps like vBulletin or other advance forum software. Maybe even built-in support in my email client? For the life of me, I can't find a good way to use Mailing Lists. I don't like receiving 40+ messages every day, but I don't find digest mode good enough either. Goog…

Something like DFeed?

Example: http://forum.dlang.org/ Source: https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is the market size worth it? How will you reach the every-day regular-John-Smith families who aren't going to be keeping an eye out for a service like this?

You sell the software to already existing fish suppliers.

Or have a "full stack startup" http://cdixon.org/2014/03/15/full-stack-startups/

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#150

A file naming convention (lightweight markup) that would allow us to store structured (meta)data right inside file names. Obviously inspired by Markdown and CSV. We could then build lean, database-less asset management applications, while the user data (i.e. the files and their metadata) would always be portable, across platforms. Take for example: J.M.W. Turner | Rain, Steam and Speed | ···· 1844.jpg W. Blake ···· |…

+1 to this idea. Organizing photos, I would like to impart date taken, location, and context (e.g., 2014-04-29; San Francisco, CA (or geolocation); "California trip"). And I'm sure other people would love other types of metadata associated with photos. And that's just image files... plenty of other metadata-needy situations (e.g., the receipts you mentioned; I have a similar problem too).
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