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Ask HN: What's your best startup idea that you're not going to pursue?
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#2Remote sysadmin service.
Percona has a remote DBA service that gives us 24/7 access to a team of proficient DBAs for a fraction of the cost of hiring one.
I'd like to see the same product for cloud sysadmins.
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#3Take your pick: http://startjumper.com
It's kind of like a parking lot for business opportunities I didn't go through with.
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#4Probably one of:
- a "Rap Genius" for crowd-translating doujin manga (kind of exists on danbooru but not quite)
- A collaborative gaming site for pen-and-paper RPG and boardgame players which would let you design and run your games as a virtual representation of the physical game (probably exists or else is a bad idea)
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#5An end to end Recruitment management services..
Fully automated and fully mobile.
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#6What Dropbox did for storage, but for CPUs. The classic business example would be that you have to to process a large Excel doc and are willing to pay extra to speed it up. With fast internet connections and cheap online storage, it could be opened up to a growing number of tasks like video rendering.
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#7A Verilog/VHDL killer.
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#8A task management app that organizes all your completed tasks into a resume.
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#9Probably one of: - a "Rap Genius" for crowd-translating doujin manga (kind of exists on danbooru but not quite) - A collaborative gaming site for pen-and-paper RPG and boardgame players which would let you design and run your games as a virtual representation of the physical game (probably exists or else is a bad idea)
The RPG idea is, in fact, part of a very dense space. However, I think Tabletop Simulator[0] is an interesting approach that comes at the problem from a very different angle: just simulate a table with physics.
Adding the support systems around this type of table, like tracking stats for various RPGs, could be a way to dominate the market. Most of the other solutions focus on the stat-tracking externals, and only have a very simple table or rigid grid, not in keeping with how real games go.
[0] http://www.berserk-games.com/ts/ - this link shows board games but there's a user-created library of game pieces[1] and some built-in RPG figurines.
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#10A couple of years ago I proposed an idea for "AirBnB for self storage" on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Collaborative-Consumption/What-is-the-n...
Still seems like a massive opportunity. $24 billion market in the US. Inconvenient locations (for many people). People have (collectively) a massive amount of under-utilized space. Not without its challenges but neither was AirBnB when it started.