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Ask HN - What's your best startup idea?
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#92Elance for local people only. So no overseas professionals allowed. Wouldn't make any money though. I suck at ideas.
how about elance for students only. Like facebook used to do requiring a .edu email address
Just as a reminder, universities outside the US don't get .edu addresses (for example, mine is just a .bc.ca adddress.) This may or may not be your intended effect.
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
An unsolicited dating site ?
No, more like attacking the online dating site from a different perspective. More like "increasing the probability of chance encounters with likely mates". It's not unsolicited because both people have to agree to meet on the cell phone notification.
You might not want to use the word "attacking" when talking about location-based dating software ;)
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#94A 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.
It takes two to sit in awkward silence for the duration of the flight. I'm a pretty shy guy myself - but every time I've opened my mouth to start a conversation with my seat-mate, I've never been disappointed. One key realization in life is that the guy next to you is (in general) just as awkward and desiring of social contact as you.
I don't. I just want to be left alone, UNLESS there is a cutie next to me; then I am interested.
But, that happens almost never.
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#95A super-simple way to email groups. Something where someone can easily subscribe and unsubscribe. Something that doesn't require signing up for an account, but only add an email address.
Concept:
Go to www.saturdaymorningrunninggroup.emailgroups.com
The webpage will have a box to easily add your email address.
To email the group, you send an email to saturdaymorningrunninggroup@emailgroups.com and it is broadcast to everyone on the list.
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#96Most people think they're good drivers, even bad ones (thanks, Dunning-Kruger!)
I'd like to see a rating and ranking system for drivers. A console in your car with a big red button-- when someone around you is driving recklessly, you target them and punch the red button... they rack up demerits (or frowny faces or whatever) and they can go to a site to see how they rank up, and how people think they drive.
Not that it's feasible or anything, but I'd love for somebody to do this; there are people in dire need of this service (myself possibly included).
Re: Ask HN - What's your best startup idea?
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
It takes two to sit in awkward silence for the duration of the flight. I'm a pretty shy guy myself - but every time I've opened my mouth to start a conversation with my seat-mate, I've never been disappointed. One key realization in life is that the guy next to you is (in general) just as awkward and desiring of social contact as you.
I don't. I just want to be left alone, UNLESS there is a cutie next to me; then I am interested. But, that happens almost never.
In my experience socializing with a bunch of random people - even in the form of short, useless conversations - leads to cuties.
I have a no-iPod rule these days - I never listen to music on the go. Headphones-on is a great way to miss out on interesting people in life.
[edit] Also, this is in no way a comment on what you ought to be doing - but for myself I find that when I feel absolutely beat and just feel like crawling into a little corner and being alone, I do the opposite instead. I've never been disappointed. Instead of withdrawing into my own space I try to engage as many people as possible - and as a result end up more refreshed than I would've if I had sat for 3 hours in front of HN hitting Refresh.
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#98Elance for local people only. So no overseas professionals allowed. Wouldn't make any money though. I suck at ideas.
how about elance for students only. Like facebook used to do requiring a .edu email address
both the "locals" and "students" plan can easily be handled by a narrowed search in elance. Its simply a missing feature. If there are enough buyers that want this search aspect, it will appear very quickly.
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#99Add fins to catch the wind on the sides of airplane wheels so that the wheels automatically begin to spin on landing approaches. This should help by reducing the amount of rubber that is lost on landing and increase the useful lifespan of airplane tires.
A friend of mine (PaulJ, co-founder of xs4all) came up with that long long ago, and had it researched. It turned out that the increase in weight because of the fins and the increased drag during landing would offset any savings.
Nice though, to see another example of people coming up with the same 'good' idea, one more reason to abolish patents.
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#100Deep search of local stores. Several times I have needed to get product X, be it a hammer, sandals etc. but have no idea where to get it locally. Do I have to take the bus to center, or is it sold in some of the smaller shops around me? One weekend we spent hours looking for sandals. At least here local shops don't list specific items they have on their websites. I imagine this would work by people contributing produ…
There's a much simpler way: an iPhone app that would let you take pictures of UPC barcodes, and would upload the UPC + GPS to a database (which would look up the UPC with the central UPC service to find out what it means.) it would also let you enter a quantitative capacity (not how much there is at the moment, but rather how much the shelf looks like it was spaced to hold.) Searching could be done from the same app or on the web, and the indexers rewarded with discounts—on the specific things they're indexing—for previously unindexed (UPC, GPS) tuples.