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Ask HN: Idea Sunday
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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#2For reference from the past three weeks of Idea Sunday:
Last weeks Idea Sunday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7616910
2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7582077
3 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7541601
Humble recommendation: Maybe we can post these in the original post for people who would be interested?
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#3I've been thinking about the problem of making make people organize their public and semi-public data better.
Groups (such as email groups and Facebook groups) and communities need a way to organize and share their data freely, but in a structured way. Also people who have data, or start building some kind of data, in text format, or tabular data, but don't know of any other mean, so they build a blog and start posting everything, then it is impossible to make anything useful with the data later. Or maybe they make a spreadsheet and link to it.
I've come to 2 solutions:
- for the first thing (but also applicable to the second), a structurable database (such as PouchDB) stored in the people's browser and communicating with other people from the group via webRTC could build a decentralized database everyone will have. Some things could be made on top of this;
- other thing is just a blogging platform that is not only a blogging platform (what I really want is it to not be a blogging platform), but it is also some way to publish static atemporal articles, tree-data, tabular data, hierarchical data etc. Written in javascript, running from the browser and communicating directly with GitHub or some other static hosting service with an API. The person would load the contents with the API then deploy the new contents as a static page. Free blogging, no central servers or providers (except for GitHub, but it could be made to generate HTML hostable anywhere), cool stuff can be attached (even some plugin that will take the data from the first solution and share in the blog/page/site).
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#4Analytics on all of my application usage, email, chats, texts, twitter and facebook interactions, and map locations. Should provide outputs like Google Now, but run on my own operating system (preferably Linux-based).
This (http://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/01/psa-back-up-your-shit/) should be good jumping off point to get a lot of the stuff. The system should have customisable hooks written in something like Python to write your own "filters". e.g. "If I've been in emacs for 1 hour straight, pop up a reminder to take an eye break, etc."
Suggestions? Thoughts?
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#5Bring back tactile controls.
Now that the smartphone innovation has slowed down a little, why not bring back real buttons, wheels etc.? They should be well-designed, precisely engineered and fun to use. I belive mobile gadget design is now awesome enough to make this work.
I wouldn't mind a scrollwheel, or even real radiobuttons (one button goes in, the other pops up). The exact functionality would still depend on the current application.
Since they give real physical feedback they should objectively be superior to the touchscreen-only functions, no?
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#6Bring back tactile controls. Now that the smartphone innovation has slowed down a little, why not bring back real buttons, wheels etc.? They should be well-designed, precisely engineered and fun to use. I belive mobile gadget design is now awesome enough to make this work. I wouldn't mind a scrollwheel, or even real radiobuttons (one button goes in, the other pops up). The exact functionality would still depend on th…
also great for use in the car
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#7A browser extension / additional service that allows you to tag/lookup the music on google music / spotify by any set of strings. And I mean your own saved collection, not for sharing/exploring/social purpose. This can be faked to some extent by multiple playlists, but it's a bit hard to use in real life.
This would be great help when trying to dj dancing party: now show me a list of "blues", "chicago", "slow", "with breaks" to choose the next song. Actually in this context, separate service / app would be great - it would work on a mobile device, rather than just desktop.
(a long standing idea on spotify list already: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/Tag-Music/idi...)
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#8A mobile application to assist in the job of house/flat hunting.
Something that could tie in to RightMove (at least in the UK), access your saved properties, and provide a simple interface to schedule viewings (although I guess this would still have to be a manual process to book viewings, but the app should provide a calendar to store them in).
The app could then alert you when the viewing is soon, and provide an interface for you to rate the viewing, add comments and maybe your own photographs to remind you later on, rather than having to scribble notes down on the same piece of paper that becomes home to your chewing gum the next day.
On a social front, it would be good to see how many other people were viewing the same property, to gauge the interest, and maybe you would be able to see an overall rating of a property based on what other people that have viewed think about it?
House/Flat adverts are still relatively useless in the process of finding somewhere suitable, and until you can view and see a property for yourself, it's impossible to tell. I think it would be very useful to be able to see ratings and comments from other users, such as "the second bedroom is a lot smaller than the photos show, and the flooring in the bathroom seriously needs replacing!".
It doesn't look like there's an available API for RightMove at the moment, so I'm not sure how the integration could happen. Still, a stand-a-lone app could still be a worthwhile idea?
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#9Analytics on all of my application usage, email, chats, texts, twitter and facebook interactions, and map locations. Should provide outputs like Google Now, but run on my own operating system (preferably Linux-based). This ( http://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/01/psa-back-up-your-shit/ ) should be good jumping off point to get a lot of the stuff. The system should have customisable hooks written in something like Python to…
RescueTime [1] seems to be along the right lines here, and is available on Linux. Doesn't appear to be able to track emails/texts/social interaction, though, only the time spent in applications and websites.
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#10A mobile application to assist in the job of house/flat hunting. Something that could tie in to RightMove (at least in the UK), access your saved properties, and provide a simple interface to schedule viewings (although I guess this would still have to be a manual process to book viewings, but the app should provide a calendar to store them in). The app could then alert you when the viewing is soon, and provide an in…
The rental market in London is pretty ferocious. I don't think comments could work because you'd always run the risk that somebody has decided they like a place and want out off other people from looking. In the end you'd still have to check the place yourself. I like a lot of your other ideas though and user photos could definitely work.