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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by alecsmart1 »

GavinB wrote: post #20

A service that sits between my bank account and subscription services that only accepts charges that I've preapproved. This would let me keep track of the services that I have so I don't end up with subscriptions to sites or services that I've forgotten about. It would also let me revoke permission to charge the account at any time. No need to cancel a card if one won't cancel or changes the fees--you just revoke the…

Recently I found a service like that. I haven't tested it but they claim to mask cards- https://dnt.abine.com/#premiumreg

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by travisfischer »

Fizzer wrote: post #27

A/B testing for the masses. Here's an example: Say a someone is deciding which shirt to wear. They whip out their smartphone, launch the A/B app, takes a picture of themselves wearing each of two shirts. Within 30 seconds, they have an answer of which shirt hundreds of people liked better. While they're waiting for the reply, they're prompted to rate other people's pictures. This is as simple as seeing two pictures a…

This is actually pretty interesting. I think many people have thought of a product along these lines and, as mentioned by others, there have been several versions of this tried.

I think the key is in the constraints you have outlined.

Obviously it's a mobile app. You take two pics and post. You then vote on other's ABs. Every vote you make on someone else's AB earns you a vote on your own. If you want a bunch of opinions on your AB you keep voting on other's. You can post to your social networks to get your friend's opinions as well. Maybe it ties into the social APIs and reads comments to extract out votes for A or B. Maybe some viral growth potential there.

I like this. I might use actually use it. Wondering if it is important to be able to choose a target segment of voters for your own AB or if the classification of "human" is good enough in most cases.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by dukedougal »

mjnaus wrote: post #24
mjnaus wrote: post #2

A service combining the flexibility and ease of use of a CMS site (Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, etc) with the speed and security of a static HTML site. The CMS version would be a private site (not accessible by the general public) which is compiled into a static HTML site which is publicly accessible. There should be a way to deal with formerly dynamic elements, such as contact/comment forms, site search, etc. (possibl…

These solutions seem to, kinda, take a stab at the concept, but what we're really after is something way simpler. Think a simple text field into which you type a URL. Then this service would visit, crawl and compile the entire site into a static HTML site (with options to enhance the final version of the static site). This would have to work independently of the platform used to build the original site and ideally th…

Httrack does this.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by fudged71 »

Fizzer wrote: post #52
lpolovets wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of my friends started a website that mostly fits what you're describing: http://www.pickfu.com/

It does seem somewhat similar. However Pickfu is going for written feedback from a one (or a small number) of people, whereas the A/B testing idea would simply compare two photos and aggregate the results within seconds. Pickfu also charges for their service, which I don't think would work for someone wanting to simply choose their wardrobe. It'd have to monetize in other ways (ads, or charging for getting gender/age…

>within seconds

This is the part I don't understand. You would need to have a whole lot of scale and incentive for people to give their feedback this fast and often. Jelly can take a while to get a response, for instance.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by fragsworth »

goshx wrote: post #58
fragsworth wrote: post #53

DNS for the Post Office. When you move to a new home or office, you can keep the same "Postal Domain Name", but change the address associated to it. Once . Not sure how to convince all the big entities to use it, but it could catch on if you could convince some smaller companies to allow users to use it in their account settings.

Isn't that what your own name does? I guess the point here is a database lookup before the mail is delivered.

> Isn't that what your own name does?

I've never heard of anyone being able to send mail to a person using only their name on an envelope.

You would have a unique "ID" which you can assign to any physical address. This is all you ever give out. If you move, you update one record, and your mail will come to the right place.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by SatyajitSarangi »

A meta-data file over VLC player where people can add additional information about a movie so that others watching the movie can skip right to that part. Say, a movie has a few funny scenes, or action or even sex, and you only are bothered to watch those parts. Then you can use this file to see at which time period these scenes exist in the movie, and jump right into it.

Not exactly a startup idea, but something that can be useful, eh?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by alecsmart1 »

mjnaus wrote: post #2

A service combining the flexibility and ease of use of a CMS site (Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, etc) with the speed and security of a static HTML site. The CMS version would be a private site (not accessible by the general public) which is compiled into a static HTML site which is publicly accessible. There should be a way to deal with formerly dynamic elements, such as contact/comment forms, site search, etc. (possibl…

It's been on my mind to create a WP plugin which allows you to upload a static version of the entire site to another location. Do you think that would do the trick?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by lukejduncan »

Fizzer wrote: post #27

A/B testing for the masses. Here's an example: Say a someone is deciding which shirt to wear. They whip out their smartphone, launch the A/B app, takes a picture of themselves wearing each of two shirts. Within 30 seconds, they have an answer of which shirt hundreds of people liked better. While they're waiting for the reply, they're prompted to rate other people's pictures. This is as simple as seeing two pictures a…

There (was) an app for that. They were around for a few years based out of NYC but it looks like they didn't get much traction.

http://gotryiton.com/

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by goshx »

JacobJans wrote: post #49

Think about how many cool videos are made with the Go Pro. Snowboarding videos, skydiving videos, etc. Now think about how cool it would be to have the type of frozen fly-around video that you see in moves like The Matrix. In fact, it should be super easy to create such a thing. Instead of just a photo, why can't we have a frozen moment in time, virtually in 3d? In fact, I first thought of this idea in terms of weddi…

Here is a very good example of the use of what you are describing: http://bigfreeze.com/demo/
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