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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#271

A 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.

How would you keep track of the ideas that have been implemented/are being worked on? User-submitted?

I think it needs to be a mix of user submitted entries (company name which implemented the idea) and automated tracking there after.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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post #37

A meetings clock that counts UP the price of a meeting based on the the salaries of the people in the room.

Related to this, a cost estimator for adding a cc: to an email. Some people might think twice if they knew what their mail really cost the company.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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post #133

Idea: Tree of knowledge Ever been interested in a topic that once you google you end up with explanations(quite often on wikipedia) that rely on foundational knowledge you didn't even know you should have? And then you started working your way back by googling things you didn't know until you hit something you do know and from that point you try to inch your way forward to the original topic just to get discouraged a…

I'm working on a project called Pointers (ptrs.io) that is exactly this.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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A knowledge assimilator: it crawls the web and other knowledge sources and summarizes facts about any topic. The system is thus able to auto-generate a wikipedia-like page for the topic.

If employed in an corporate/enterprise environment, it reads all the documentation and then someone can ask it questions like: "What does the SDP 5.1 do?", "What is the capacity of an SDP 5.1?", "Can I connect an SDP to an SCP" etc.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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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…

I'm on a side project right now that involves indexing recipes by ingredients and the like, making an api could make the jump to substitutions and other meta-like mods.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Ordering prototype (3d printing, CNC machining, lasercutting) parts, reimagined. It's a major pain just to get a few parts made- first you find a company that does that, e-mail them their design, they get back to you with a quote and you either accept it or go back to step 1.

What if you could just upload your design, select a material from catalogue and receive an instant quote. If you're happy with it, order the parts and then either pick them up in person or have them delivered.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#277

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…

The reason why this doesn't exist, and can't exist at the scale of imgur is because of piracy.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#278

I compiled different ideas over the week. coMarketing: I would like to see a solution that allows smaller companies that target a similar audience to be able to put their "little" marketing dollar together and have a better chance at fighting the big guy. Phone screen on my computer: When I am at my desk, I want to be able to use my phone from my computer. I can use the desktop interface to go through contacts, check…

If I could figure out how to do comrketing - I would

I work for a company that targets dentists. I am always thinking if we could run a direct mail campaign with 3 or 4 other companies targeting the same audience we can reduce our cost by more than 1/3 and we can offer awesome packages to clients.

The same is true for paid search, facebook, etc...

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#279

A major pain point in my life is house maintenance and repair. I really miss having a (good) landlord. That's what I want - a single point of contact to manage the upkeep of and fix any issues related to my home. There's so much friction in the process of finding the various contractors needed to keep a home in good order. First you have to search on craigslist, angieslist, or google for contractors that service your…

In Brazil this is offered by insurance companies (it's called home insurance) for a long time.

Besides covering stuff like fires, earthquakes, hurricanes, theft, etc. they give you free home services like the ones you mentioned (hanging pictures, changing lightbulbs) and offer "emergency" services like locksmith, electrician and glazier.

It's way cheaper than your 500-1k range.

Here's one of the companies that do this: https://www.itau.com.br/seguros/residencial/

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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post #133

Idea: Tree of knowledge Ever been interested in a topic that once you google you end up with explanations(quite often on wikipedia) that rely on foundational knowledge you didn't even know you should have? And then you started working your way back by googling things you didn't know until you hit something you do know and from that point you try to inch your way forward to the original topic just to get discouraged a…

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