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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by edparry »

ollysb wrote: post #10
edparry wrote: post #8

A mobile application to assist in the job of house/flat hunting. Something that could tie in to RightMove (at least in the UK), access your saved properties, and provide a simple interface to schedule viewings (although I guess this would still have to be a manual process to book viewings, but the app should provide a calendar to store them in). The app could then alert you when the viewing is soon, and provide an in…

The rental market in London is pretty ferocious. I don't think comments could work because you'd always run the risk that somebody has decided they like a place and want out off other people from looking. In the end you'd still have to check the place yourself. I like a lot of your other ideas though and user photos could definitely work.

I agree with the user comments issue. Maybe a way of vetting them, possibly if other viewers agree with previous comments, they become publicly available?

EDIT: ...but even then, you might not get personal opinions. Tough one!

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by sergiosgc »

A public protocol and a reference implementation of a social network. The problem is stabilized, it's time to do to social networks what SMTP did to email. Open it up to be fully decentralized, where people can host their social hub or use a hosting service, of which there would spring up a multitude.

Social networking is nowadays as central to the internet as email, and it is the first such, heavily used, application layer "protocol" that is closed.

For a small period of time I had hopes that this would be the path G+ would take to the top. It isn't.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by mitchmindtree »

viraptor wrote: post #7

A browser extension / additional service that allows you to tag/lookup the music on google music / spotify by any set of strings. And I mean your own saved collection, not for sharing/exploring/social purpose. This can be faked to some extent by multiple playlists, but it's a bit hard to use in real life. This would be great help when trying to dj dancing party: now show me a list of "blues", "chicago", "slow", "with…

You might find this interesting, just came across it today!

Unofficial Google Music API in Python, quite well documented. http://unofficial-google-music-api.readthedocs.org/en/latest...

About to get started writing a little script that will take care of synchronising my library with my google music one, and automatically uploading those that it can't find a match for. A few of my friends also use it, so I was also thinking of making a little tool that would allow us to compare our libraries and show us what each other are missing etc.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by viraptor »

sergiosgc wrote: post #12

A public protocol and a reference implementation of a social network. The problem is stabilized, it's time to do to social networks what SMTP did to email. Open it up to be fully decentralized, where people can host their social hub or use a hosting service, of which there would spring up a multitude. Social networking is nowadays as central to the internet as email, and it is the first such, heavily used, applicatio…

Isn't that what diaspora is? https://diasporafoundation.org/

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by rhythmvs »

fiatjaf wrote: post #3

I've been thinking about the problem of making make people organize their public and semi-public data better. Groups (such as email groups and Facebook groups) and communities need a way to organize and share their data freely, but in a structured way. Also people who have data, or start building some kind of data, in text format, or tabular data, but don't know of any other mean, so they build a blog and start posti…

Immediate sharing of raw data (with the world, or restricted to one’s peers), instead of going through the tedious process of information packaging through text, words, written description or synoptical graphics — that’s the future of our open Web. When anyone can create and update the underlying raw data, there can exist infinite summarizing views, syntheses, charts, text, all drawing their own conclusions.

Pushing and syncing strings is a solved problem, as are atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability. Powerful visualization tools are being made, too. The View and the Controller are taken care of.

The unsolved problem remains: how will we empower users to relate those strings, to have them turn data into information, and information into knowledge? How will we enable the many thousands of non-tech domain experts to create their models? How will we devise the Model?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by ishansharma »

A progress and time tracker like Habit RPG and Rescue Time that tracks number of hours spent towards a habit/skill. Basically, something that can track where you are on 10,000 hours rule. More automation is better!

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by [deleted] »

sergiosgc wrote: post #12

A public protocol and a reference implementation of a social network. The problem is stabilized, it's time to do to social networks what SMTP did to email. Open it up to be fully decentralized, where people can host their social hub or use a hosting service, of which there would spring up a multitude. Social networking is nowadays as central to the internet as email, and it is the first such, heavily used, applicatio…

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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by aspidistra »

sergiosgc wrote: post #12

A public protocol and a reference implementation of a social network. The problem is stabilized, it's time to do to social networks what SMTP did to email. Open it up to be fully decentralized, where people can host their social hub or use a hosting service, of which there would spring up a multitude. Social networking is nowadays as central to the internet as email, and it is the first such, heavily used, applicatio…

Something like Tent?

https://tent.io

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by stoev »

UweSchmidt wrote: post #5

Bring back tactile controls. Now that the smartphone innovation has slowed down a little, why not bring back real buttons, wheels etc.? They should be well-designed, precisely engineered and fun to use. I belive mobile gadget design is now awesome enough to make this work. I wouldn't mind a scrollwheel, or even real radiobuttons (one button goes in, the other pops up). The exact functionality would still depend on th…

Somebody is also working on this and has made very impressive progress:

http://tactustechnology.com

They are also planning to release it for in-car displays.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by nmikz »

UweSchmidt wrote: post #5

Bring back tactile controls. Now that the smartphone innovation has slowed down a little, why not bring back real buttons, wheels etc.? They should be well-designed, precisely engineered and fun to use. I belive mobile gadget design is now awesome enough to make this work. I wouldn't mind a scrollwheel, or even real radiobuttons (one button goes in, the other pops up). The exact functionality would still depend on th…

I recently came across this tech where physical buttons appear and disappear on touch screens when needed : http://tactustechnology.com/
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