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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by akshatpradhan »

shiggerino wrote: post #100
RivieraKid wrote: post #34

Like Gravatar but for everything, not just avatars. Gravatar is a service, where you save your avatar. Websites such as StackOverflow can connect to Gravatar and retrieve your avatar from there. So when you decide to change your avatar, you do it in one place. On a more abstract level, the problem here is that people and organizations often create some data and basically Ctrl+C Ctrl+V it to different services. Couple…

The W3C sort of had a solution with the semantic web, too bad nobody cared about the semantic web.

I personally think the semantic web was a solution in search of a problem. People weren't concerned about ontology and mappings. They were concerned with making the web more approachable. I think, therefore, money was invested into Mobile Apps / JS frameworks instead of tools for semantic web.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by namuol »

tuscarok wrote: post #81
namuol wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If Apple already makes great trackpads for laptops, why not just use their hardware?

Maybe I want to use a GPU with a couple of cores? Or even play a proper computer game...

You play "proper computer games" with the trackpad? Suit yourself: https://www.apple.com/magictrackpad/

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by DanBC »

minimaxir wrote: post #89
DanBC wrote: post #58

This type of thread should be monthly, not weekly. You might want to set up an account just for posting these threads. That helps avoids a bunch of different people starting the threads as Sunday rolls around to their timezone.

The OP is not affiliated with Hacker News/YC.

I don't understand your point.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by shiggerino »

akshatpradhan wrote: post #121
shiggerino wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The W3C sort of had a solution with the semantic web, too bad nobody cared about the semantic web.

I personally think the semantic web was a solution in search of a problem. People weren't concerned about ontology and mappings. They were concerned with making the web more approachable. I think, therefore, money was invested into Mobile Apps / JS frameworks instead of tools for semantic web.

I think it grew out of very much the same idealism that still drives Ted Nelson to this date. I guess to unify all of human knowledge to reach a higher form of understanding just isn't on most people's mind. Not even those whose day job it is to do just that, as is my experience from dabbling in academic publishing.

This reminds me of an old blog post, Charles’ Rules of Argument [1]:

“5. DO NOT argue with Lisp programmers, believers in the Semantic Web, or furries”

1. http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2004/03/21/charles_rules_of_arg...

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by TACIXAT »

miguelrochefort wrote: post #114

We need to take a step back, and stop building all these silly websites and applications. Seriously, this madness must stop. The application paradigm simply cannot scale. How many apps can you install? How many profiles can you maintain? How many inbox can you empty? How many activity feeds can you go through? How many shopping apps do you use until you buy that one thing? How many times have you seen the exact same…

Someone just needs to capitalize on the complexity and make something to manage all the profiles, inboxes, and apps.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by ramviswanadha »

philbarr wrote: post #17

Easy Expenses: There are lots of expenses saas apps out there, but the pain with expenses is scanning in all the receipts. I should be able to do this by just taking a picture of the receipt at the time I get it. Perhaps include some computer vision stuff to pick the numbers off the receipt and let me choose which one was cost (incl./excl. VAT). Include other fields for project, time, date, reason, etc. Then when I'm…

checkout http://receiptmonkey.com does OCR recognition of receipts for easy expense managment

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by kgc »

philbarr wrote: post #14

Idea Validator: Type in the long-tail search phrases and it goes off and does as much market research automatically for you as possible, and comes back with a yes/no on whether you should bother pursuing it. Perhaps including a list of statistics like: how much it would cost to get into that market, how many competitors there appear to be, etc. etc.

I thought of something like this too. I was going to put it on the domain ideatester.org

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by fidz »

miguelrochefort wrote: post #114

We need to take a step back, and stop building all these silly websites and applications. Seriously, this madness must stop. The application paradigm simply cannot scale. How many apps can you install? How many profiles can you maintain? How many inbox can you empty? How many activity feeds can you go through? How many shopping apps do you use until you buy that one thing? How many times have you seen the exact same…

So what is your proposal? We are all in this direction. Yes, we don't need another Facebook. I agree. But people still love this old-new thing.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by miguelrochefort »

TACIXAT wrote: post #126
miguelrochefort wrote: post #114

We need to take a step back, and stop building all these silly websites and applications. Seriously, this madness must stop. The application paradigm simply cannot scale. How many apps can you install? How many profiles can you maintain? How many inbox can you empty? How many activity feeds can you go through? How many shopping apps do you use until you buy that one thing? How many times have you seen the exact same…

Someone just needs to capitalize on the complexity and make something to manage all the profiles, inboxes, and apps.

You're still thinking in the wrong paradigm. This is the perfect example of what we should NOT be doing.

To build on top of this mess is a sure way to increase complexity to new heights. Not in a good way.

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