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!
https://lift.do/ does this
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#22Programmer's laptop: A good quality, high performing, non-widescreen laptop with a 4:3 aspect rato.
Why? With a taller screen, there's less scrolling and your eyes don't have to jump as much when reading from line to line.
I would like to know if there would be a market for this and why manufacturers phased out 4:3 displays?
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#23How about a search engine that bases its results on how unique the information is on every one of them.
Every time I try to do an in-depth research on Google about some topic I open up 10 or 20 of the most relevant results, only to discover that at least 80% of the information is repeating itself in at least 50-60% of the pages.
One could write a search engine that compares the contents, groups the articles that have similar enough contents and only displays one article per group. This could work especially well in the case of longer searches with enough keywords.
Obviously, this is not a standalone product that would compete against the established search engines, but it could be built on top of them - a browser extension for example.
Any thoughts on this?
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#25A 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…
I agree it would be nice to bring renting (in London) etc into the 21st century but you're unlikely to ever incorporate a yelp type ratings system for property as there's no incentive for landlords / agents. They rely too heavily on spin and sales techniques - they don't want you talking to other people and discounting properties before you've seen them. They want to take you on a journey where they lower your expectations so that the one property they show you thats better than the others but slightly out your price range makes you fork out the extra cash. Estate agents and landlords want to control the market - you'll have a hard time democratising it. It really is a sellers market in London.
I'd personally like to see the use of web/tech to integrate the whole experience - so everything from deposits, rent, grievances and so on is centrally managed and moderated. Again though, hard to get traction.
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#26A 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!
I made this: http://countrack.me - which is somewhat relevant to what you are asking.
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#27A bookmarking service, that not only saves any "interesting" links that you visit but also saves the data in that link for future search. The service should let you specify topics that you are interested in and will analyze every page you visit (with the exception of blacklisted pages) and put it into the appropriate bucket (topic), for future reference. It should also index the PDFs and word documents that are read by you. In research we consume so much of content. Organizing them effectively becomes as daunting as the research itself at times.
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#28For reference from the past three weeks of Idea Sunday: Last weeks Idea Sunday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7616910 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7582077 3 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7541601 Humble recommendation: Maybe we can post these in the original post for people who would be interested?
The OP should probably include a restatement of the purpose, too- wouldn't want people to get confused with the side project help thread!
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#29A 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
Are there any implementations or user-friendly frontend webapps designed to interoperate?
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#30A paying Wine (winehq.org) that would work with demanding multimedia programs such as Adobe LightRoom or Sony Vegas.
I would pay something like $100/year for such software that would keep up with every new version of its supported programs.