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Reading through this I came up with one: Tinder for jobs. Employers can look through a small CV of candidates that they might like, while potential employees can do the same for workplaces. Matches lead to interviews. I can't really see myself ever doing this though because you'd got a chicken and egg problem, plus it'd probably only ever be used by tech companies unless there was an easy to use API.
An online-only bank (with ATM support of course) that lets you have as many "virtual" accounts as you want, and lets you set up programmatic rules for transferring money in between accounts on certain days/times, or triggered by events ("transfer $100 from B to A if account A goes below $100, and notify me by email"; "on overdraft from A, withdraw from B instead"). Then have a debit card that you can use to charge to…
Yes, it would probably be more expensive than people's current policies.
Heroku for queue jobs. Pay by the minute. Basically I hate maintaining an AWS instance that is idle most of the time. And Heroku will only get you so far. It would probably be difficult to make profits on because you'd be charging slices of a penny at a time...
Github for travel planning. You can collaborate with your co-travelers on creating an itinerary but then like github you can fork other peoples completed itineraries and make them your own.
Although I guess you could do it on github if you had technically inclined people doing the traveling and wanting to post about it.
An insurance company who's policy covers anything you own against any kind of loss for any reason. House, car, boat, bike etc for flood, fire, theft etc. Basically, if you buy insurance you should simply be insured. Period. No fine print. Yes, it would probably be more expensive than people's current policies.
GeekFit - an online community of geeks/coders looking to improve from sedentary to athletic.
Reading through this I came up with one: Tinder for jobs. Employers can look through a small CV of candidates that they might like, while potential employees can do the same for workplaces. Matches lead to interviews. I can't really see myself ever doing this though because you'd got a chicken and egg problem, plus it'd probably only ever be used by tech companies unless there was an easy to use API.
Heroku for queue jobs. Pay by the minute. Basically I hate maintaining an AWS instance that is idle most of the time. And Heroku will only get you so far. It would probably be difficult to make profits on because you'd be charging slices of a penny at a time...
I have boxes and boxes of tapes, disks, notebooks, books, and photos. All of which I'd prefer to have digital. Other physical things could be digitized with video, photographs, and scans. I would take them to my street corner and a driver would pick them up and deliver them to a digitizer. They could show up in the cloud a week later, or be delivered back to me in a hard drive.
Once the digital copies are received, the customer can request to have the goods responsibly disposed of. The service could also cover long term storage for customers who want the originals to remain intact. Possessions can be returned to the owner within a day or two's notice.
A service like this would allow people to minimize their physical existence while preserving the memories associated with physical possessions.