I bought "thecoffeeprophecy.com" On a whim a while ago... Suggestions so far have included a straight to kindle thriller, tripadvisor for coffee shops, and a service where I cover myself in coffee grounds on webcam and predict things for people. Suggestions welcome...
Ask HN: Idea Sunday
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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#122Think 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…
This came to my mind when I read your post (360 pics taken with many phones): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD26Mrf1mck
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#123A 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…
I'm building a service that's something like that. Ping me if you are interested in a demo hi @ !dotfinity! . !eu!
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#124I was inspired by Marc Andreessen's post this weekend about news/journalism [1]. So, here's my idea for an editorial news site:
The site would be called "5 ON 5"
and every post would be based on a current news topic. In each post, 2 writers/bloggers would argue opposing views of the topic (point/counterpoint). BUT each argument must be written in a BuzzFeed listicle style format. For example:
5 ON 5: UKRAINE "5 reasons Obama needs to stay out of the Ukraine/Russia crisis" vs. "5 things Obama needs to do for Ukraine right now"
and
5 ON 5: FACEBOOK F8 CONFERENCE "You should put Facebook's anonymous login in your app. Here's 5 reasons why." vs. "5 reasons Facebook's new anonymous login is bad for developers"
I like it because it could work for any news category, it could be for analysis and prognostication, you could presumably get great guest writers, and it's "smart" spin on the viral crap BuzzFeed/Gawker puts out.
[1] http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/marc-andreese...
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#125DNS 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 this just the concept of having a PO box?
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#126A 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…
Bank of America has this - it's called shopsafe. You create temporary credit cards with fixed spending limits. You can cancel a individual number at any time.
That's awesome. I wish Chase had that.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I see what you are saying and I like it a lot. I think you would still need a way to have people discover the current state you live in. One thing that comes to mind is taxes that differ per state. If I told amazon to ship my package to bob@foo.bar they would still need to know where I live.
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#128DNS 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.
Any ideas what are the integration methods at the sender sides? They'd obviously need to collect the new id number and automatically find the current address.
I'd also wonder if financial institutions can use such a service at all, they probably have some stringent requirements to change the address of a person and are obligated to keep an address on record (at least in Israel they are).
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#129A website that allows maintainers of open-source projects to flag/create tickets where it would be helpful for others to help out. I personally want to make more OSS contributions, but often I find it hard to find projects where I can contribute meaningfully. Meaning specifically that they are projects that have problems that match my expertise, are actively maintained (my patches will be appreciated), and have unres…
Get started: https://openhatch.org/ :-)
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#130Food inventory for the ordinary home. A synced cross platform app that allows a normal home to monitor:
1)What food has been bought?
2)What the expiration date is? Warnings when food is going out of date.
3)What meals can be made based on the food “in stock”?
I hate throwing away food and often buy food I already have or that my girlfriend has bought. I have been trying to think of ways to monitor what food is at home and to reduce the amount of food wastage in our home.
I think an app that allows you to scan shopping receipts, the contents of which are automatically loaded into a database and synced across multiple apps would be very useful.
It could be monetized using the freemium model, e.g. more complex functionality the more you pay and also by integrating with online shopping engines such as instacart.
Any feedback on this greatly appreciated.