I'm always seeing people with tons of skills, but don't have any ideas to execute! But then I see a lot of people with a lot of ideas! So I thought that the people with plenty of left over ideas should share them, get critique on them, and let others build them if they like 'em!
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#2So if anyones interested, I'll kick it off:
A tab candy-esque site to share tabs, or specific sites with friends, instead of bookmarking, you can share a site with a friend, or a group of friends. Your friends could also allow you the option of automatically opening tabs that come from you. Would also be an interesting social experiment!
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#3I am looking for feedback on my own ideas - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1773435
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#4Skills - a site, where you split up and clearly define your skills, offering them to the public for sale or trade, if order for people to find what ever skills they need in the vicinity.
max. three skills registered pr. person. Professionals need to register as such, but log in on equal terms with every one else.
Everyone is judged by those helped, on their assistance, from a decimal valuesystem. Friends inside the system can recommend skilled people.
Suggestet intro: SKILL - a skill can be anything, you do very, very well. You don't have to be a chef with a restaurant in order to be a good cook, but quite possibly you don't know as much about hygiene as the professional chef, and should restrict your skill to specifics. Like "Couisine of XX country". Or "The best kitchen utensils at any given price".
"Will aid for - cash contribution to me, a charity, my church etc. - DVDs, LPs, Comics, whatever collectable" - assistance with my car (a xx model yy 19zz) - food in the fridge - minimum wage for max. xx days - a homecooked meal - a friendly/intelligent chat - and so on
If you use it, credit me, or mail me krabat a menneske dot dk with willingness to jam more on topic. If it already exists, please let me know.
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#5I started coding this idea a while back, but had to abandon it for lack of time: A site for civic associations that allows them to post announcements, coordinate events, and collect dues via a credit card.
Because civic associations in my area are voluntary but handle essential services such as snow plowing, I came up with a novel way to guilt residents into paying their dues: A Google Map showing which households were up to date on their dues -- a way to subtly pressure neighbors to pay their fair share.
Site could also include a neighborhood marketplace -- sort of a hyper-local version of Craigslist -- and other tools useful to civic associations.
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#6I started coding this idea a while back, but had to abandon it for lack of time: A site for civic associations that allows them to post announcements, coordinate events, and collect dues via a credit card. Because civic associations in my area are voluntary but handle essential services such as snow plowing, I came up with a novel way to guilt residents into paying their dues: A Google Map showing which households we…
Great idea! You could probably do the collecting dues stuff with the WePay API. I'm using it for a project right now and it's pretty awesome.
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#7A site for parents/grandparents who live away from their kids to read stories to their children.
It should be really easy for the parent to record a story in their voice - ideally a mobile app. The kids go to a website or even just run a desktop app, say iTunes, which receives the recorded stories as a podcast.
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#8So if anyones interested, I'll kick it off: A tab candy-esque site to share tabs, or specific sites with friends, instead of bookmarking, you can share a site with a friend, or a group of friends. Your friends could also allow you the option of automatically opening tabs that come from you. Would also be an interesting social experiment!
I actually brainstormed a similiar idea about 6 months ago.
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#9An online reputation/credibility aggregator. Do the same for credibility that TransUnion, Experian and Equifax have done for financial credit. Aggregate the reputation of one user across many sites. Here are some examples of sites and reputation metrics to use:
-- Hacker News upvotes/downvotes
-- Quora upvotes/downvotes/followers/Endorsements
-- Twitter followers/retweets
-- Disqus Likes
-- Facebook Likes
-- LinkedIn Connections and Endorsements
-- GitHub Followers
-- Forrst Followers/Likes
-- Dribbble Likes
-- Etc.
All the pieces are falling into place to establish an online credibility rating. Possibly even multiple credit ratings for difference dimensions like coding, graphic design, business advice, life advice, career advice, etc.
Here's a possible use case of such data:
Imagine a debate erupts between two users who claim to be authority. Maybe they are arguing on climate change. Each argues his side of the issue and makes claims. One has a high credibility rating of 720 and the other has a low credibility rating of 590. Others watching the debate can then take the credibility rating into account when considering which side to trust/support.
That may not be the best example, but I honestly think such a credibility rating would have value and that we really won't understand the value of such a system until you put it out there and start seeing what others do with it.
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#10Social dog kenneling and dog walking. Basically AirBnB for dogs.
Basically when you go out of town you can leave your dog with other users on the site who have dogs and vice versa. Every time you take in a dog of another user you earn karma points. When you kennel a dog with another user you spend karma points. Users get a certain number of karma points for free upon signing up, but once they've used them, they much take in the dogs of others to get more back.
This site could also be used for dog walking as well. Maybe even bathing dogs could be included.
The site would need a Terms of Use that limits the liability of those that participate and those running the site.