How about an website that collects/harvests good startup ideas? Like what we're doing on this HN page?
Ask HN - What's your best startup idea?
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#22Direct person-to-person electronic payments.
How this differs from paypal? I understand that for you to propose this there is some fundamental difference, just I can't figure it.
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#23How about an website that collects/harvests good startup ideas? Like what we're doing on this HN page?
This post comes up regularly on HN, and a comment like yours is pretty much guaranteed to accompany it.
I wonder why such a site has yet to exist?
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#24A web/mobile app that will allow users to request information (text, audio clip, photo or video clip) from each other, anonymously and in real-time, based on their global location. Human Powered Search?
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#25The Wikipedia of genealogy: a family tree for the entire human race, which everyone can edit and add to.
Now I can finally explain my superpowers to the world. :-)
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#26How about an website that collects/harvests good startup ideas? Like what we're doing on this HN page?
This post comes up regularly on HN, and a comment like yours is pretty much guaranteed to accompany it. I wonder why such a site has yet to exist?
Some of the ideas are more whimsical than others, but the halfbakery [1] has existed for quite a while.
"The Halfbakery is a communal database of original, fictitious inventions, edited by its users. It was created by people who like to speculate, both as a form of satire and as a form of creative expression."
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#27Direct person-to-person electronic payments.
How this differs from paypal? I understand that for you to propose this there is some fundamental difference, just I can't figure it.
>How this differs from paypal?
My assumption is that it won't involve paypal. :-)
Seriously though, that's the difference - some way to avoid the third party lock in that paypal forces, replacing it with a simple: "money from my account into your account" method.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
This post comes up regularly on HN, and a comment like yours is pretty much guaranteed to accompany it. I wonder why such a site has yet to exist?
Some of the ideas are more whimsical than others, but the halfbakery [1] has existed for quite a while. "The Halfbakery is a communal database of original, fictitious inventions, edited by its users. It was created by people who like to speculate, both as a form of satire and as a form of creative expression." [1] http://www.halfbakery.com/
The issue with that site is that it lives up to it's name. I think you'd need to launch any real idea site from a forum like HN. It's the people submitting and evaluating the idea that will make it work.
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#29Open source credit scores and history.
Take down the oligopoly of the existing credit scoring companies by providing an open algorithm to determine scores. Change it as necessary. Educate people on how to improve the score. Provide the data to consumers for free, charge others (banks, mortgage companies, etc.) to use it.
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#30The Wikipedia of genealogy: a family tree for the entire human race, which everyone can edit and add to.
http://www.geni.com/ is pretty close. Started by a former PayPal guy, I believe.