Gossip forum in a hacker school that became so popular that the administration demanded it get taken down yesterday. Now comments have to be approved, and only the most recent 5 rather than 40 comments are displayed. Seems like making these changes has already killed everything that was great about this little online community, so if you do something like it, don't shut it down ;)
What's an idea or creation that you've had success with locally that I can copy?
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Re: What's an idea or creation that you've had success with locally that I can copy?
#12Middleman for a service that would connect men with women who would be intimate for an exchange of money
I've heard that this isn't easy.
Re: What's an idea or creation that you've had success with locally that I can copy?
#13Gossip forum in a hacker school that became so popular that the administration demanded it get taken down yesterday. Now comments have to be approved, and only the most recent 5 rather than 40 comments are displayed. Seems like making these changes has already killed everything that was great about this little online community, so if you do something like it, don't shut it down ;)
What was the rationale for neutering it?
Re: What's an idea or creation that you've had success with locally that I can copy?
#14go through all the small local shops and offer them SEO services. most of them have terrible sites so "on-site" seo will work great. You'll make a couple thousand. Good way to make some money when you really need it after moving in
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#15Send local goods to foreign subscribers in monthly surprise shipments.
Nice to see you around Bemmu! How is CandayJapan going?
you still owe me a free shipment for endorsing you ;-)
In seriousness though, this is excellent advice - have a taste of something that's just not local.
I know a well known YC company founder wanted to do something similar with whiskey... but ran into way too much overhead and administration issues with customs - costs, legality, shipping and way too much to list. Great wee idea if executed perfectly.
Re: What's an idea or creation that you've had success with locally that I can copy?
#16Web crawler that collects comments on social and media websites and lets users analyse and visualise them. It's not very hard to build and provides a great service to businesses releasing PR articles and seeking feedback on them.
Couldn't you use something like Google Alerts, but don't tell your customers that, just show the results in a more prettified and "tailored" way to them. ;-)
Re: What's an idea or creation that you've had success with locally that I can copy?
#17Web crawler that collects comments on social and media websites and lets users analyse and visualise them. It's not very hard to build and provides a great service to businesses releasing PR articles and seeking feedback on them.
That's a great idea, with some very interesting facets to play with.
Re: What's an idea or creation that you've had success with locally that I can copy?
#18Print kiosks where customers can print out a customized "newspaper" with a customized subset of news articles scraped from the web
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#19Christmas tree delivery service by bikes: http://kantaa.hu/karacsony
Re: What's an idea or creation that you've had success with locally that I can copy?
#20We did make a free beer mobile application in 1999, when cell phones had been still big, called Happy Hopper. The idea of the service was: You send an SMS to our server, we send you an SMS back to a pub in town, together with a riddle to solve in that pub. Solve that riddle and you get a free beer and the address of the next pub. The SMS also served as a ticket for the bus.
Success of this service was based on working with our local brewery, and local radio station to advertise it, and of course public transport. Happy Hopper did run two times during the Freimarkt and Osterwiese fair. So you also need a date, where you can expect lots of people who enjoy to get drunk.