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Ask HN - What's your best startup idea?
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#52A social network for people who fly on airplanes regularly that helps people book seats next to each other so that they can enjoy a nice conversation rather than sitting in silence for the duration of the flight.
Along those lines I know there is a very lucrative black (maybe more gray) market in which people will pay big money to find out flight plans of important decision makers. People paid that money so they could try to buy a ticket in the seat next to said decision maker. You've then got X hours to work a pitch. I know this happens to execs in pro sports a lot (people trying to get sponsorship, get the leagues using the…
Why limit it to flights? You could create a whole new stalking service!
1. Aggregate location info and travel plans of key celebrities from Twitter
2. ???
3. Profit
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#53Mobile app where you snap pictures/video of issues around your community (graffiti, broken streetlights, potholes, etc.) and upload to a site. Users can search by geo and vote on the ones they want to see fixed first. Local government subscribes to a reporting engine/workflow service that allows them to slice data and work more closely with their citizens in improving their locality.
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#54How about a cupcake company that sells designer bite size cupcakes to people who need a sugar fix.
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#55A simple drag and drop web interface for creating rich web applications-- no programming skills necessary.
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#56A social network for people who fly on airplanes regularly that helps people book seats next to each other so that they can enjoy a nice conversation rather than sitting in silence for the duration of the flight.
Would it also help people who enjoy airplane silence book seats far away from other peoples' conversations?
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#57walmart style inventory management / analytics for mom n pop size stores
This may be close. http://www.utilitran.com/ They claim to be streaming the ordering supply chain system for convenience stores.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Along those lines I know there is a very lucrative black (maybe more gray) market in which people will pay big money to find out flight plans of important decision makers. People paid that money so they could try to buy a ticket in the seat next to said decision maker. You've then got X hours to work a pitch. I know this happens to execs in pro sports a lot (people trying to get sponsorship, get the leagues using the…
Why limit it to flights? You could create a whole new stalking service! 1. Aggregate location info and travel plans of key celebrities from Twitter 2. ??? 3. Profit
You could call it Stalkr :)
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Along those lines I know there is a very lucrative black (maybe more gray) market in which people will pay big money to find out flight plans of important decision makers. People paid that money so they could try to buy a ticket in the seat next to said decision maker. You've then got X hours to work a pitch. I know this happens to execs in pro sports a lot (people trying to get sponsorship, get the leagues using the…
Why limit it to flights? You could create a whole new stalking service! 1. Aggregate location info and travel plans of key celebrities from Twitter 2. ??? 3. Profit
"Oh, fancy meeting you here, on this private island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Yeah, I was just on my way to a real estate seminar. You?"
It could work.
Re: Ask HN - What's your best startup idea?
#60A social network for people who fly on airplanes regularly that helps people book seats next to each other so that they can enjoy a nice conversation rather than sitting in silence for the duration of the flight.
Along those lines I know there is a very lucrative black (maybe more gray) market in which people will pay big money to find out flight plans of important decision makers. People paid that money so they could try to buy a ticket in the seat next to said decision maker. You've then got X hours to work a pitch. I know this happens to execs in pro sports a lot (people trying to get sponsorship, get the leagues using the…
I think I'm posting all of my ideas that didn't make the cut. This one would be challenging unless you could directly book flights for people-- or at least change their seats. Also, you would need a large number of people to use it before it became useful since you're really working with a narrow population of people flying on a particular flight.