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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#152

An IDE for ideas. Intellisense for thoughts. For those of you who develop using powerful IDEs (such as Visual Studio, Eclipse, ...), it's hard to imagine going back to a basic notepad. Most people, most of the time, don't write software. They exchange ideas, express wishes, share their feelings. And to do that, they use tools that are not more powerful than a basic notepad. This forces them to be explicit, to explain…

Isn't Google's instant answer - I don't use Google anymore, so my terminology might be wrong, what I mean by "instant answer" is the auto suggestion on the search box - the equivalent of intellisense (or at least auto completion) for ideas?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#153

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…

I like Gmane's interface. Many mailing lists are mirrored over at Gmane, and its "frames and threads" interface gives a nice email client feel.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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post #142

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…

This is the only service in this space I could find: https://starthq.com/apps/crondash

It doesn't actually run the job but could be used to trigger them.

I think the idea could work if you could write the tasks as snippets of JS, think IFTT/Zapier but with a code editor.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#156

An IDE for ideas. Intellisense for thoughts. For those of you who develop using powerful IDEs (such as Visual Studio, Eclipse, ...), it's hard to imagine going back to a basic notepad. Most people, most of the time, don't write software. They exchange ideas, express wishes, share their feelings. And to do that, they use tools that are not more powerful than a basic notepad. This forces them to be explicit, to explain…

My friends has started a startup around this, feel free to visit germ.io

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#157

Why are recipes linear and textual? I'm surprised the recipe-book metaphor sticked with us for that long. I want a social cooking platform where the only way to represent a recipe is with a diagram. http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/156044/2247517/Pancak... You're a cooking master? No need to explain you how to make a roux or how to blanch vegetables. Don't have butter? We'll substitute the step where you need b…

Wow! I actually would love this. Kinda like an IDE for cooking? Uhmm... would definitely use.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#160
post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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Sometimes, I wonder if there really are cats and dogs messing around with computers...
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