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Brainstorm HN: Outlandish Startup Ideas Pool

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Post by dxjones »

rokhayakebe wrote: post #83

5 Star Jail Hotel (good for procrastinators). Pay us and we will lock you up for as many days as you paid. You get one hour per day to hang out within our establishment. Breakfast, Lunch and Diner are eaten with other prisoners. The rest of time we will lock you up in your room (with internet connection). Phones lines are only open for x hours. Emails programs are blocked most of the time... You see where I am headin…

Can a boss send an employee to procrastinator jail to make sure they finish their task by deadline?

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Post by jay_kyburz »

neilk wrote: post #117

Since the newspapers are about to die, we need something to replace the government/corporate watchdog function of journalism. (sensational news, sports, classifieds, entertainment, and celebritard news have already migrated elsewhere, so let's not consider them.) Some form of hyper-customizable newsletter service, providing updates on upcoming legislation or business deals. There are large firms who already subscribe…

I would love to see a news service based entirely on fact. No journalist emotional interpretation. Headlines would be generated based on user criterion. A search.

Give me headlines new headlines (today) sorted by number of deaths in incident. Filtered globally, by country, or by city. etc etc.

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Post by dryicerx »

This is for advertising: Have devices in public places where people are likely to sit down (bus steats, benches in Airports, bus stops) that listen in and automatically pick out keywords from conversations. Ads are displayed directly in front that is relevant to the conversation.

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Post by dryicerx »

alecst wrote: post #119

A junk gym, wherein all equipment would be gathered from a large junkyard, and could be housed within a cheap warehouse. Bench press could be a small bench with perhaps an axle and two tires on each side, or metal plates, all with weights marked. Various other car parts could be transformed into different exercise machines. Dumbbells would be various pieces of metal with marked weights.

This makes for quite the manly place to work out. I mean think about the costs here (no need for expensive equipment either, their junk!)

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Post by dryicerx »

deutronium wrote: post #27

Nuclear powered laptop never needs recharging

Kinetic Recharger for Laptops.

A laptop with a shake-to-recharge system. You can make them fit in your CD Drive bays. Since you carry your laptop around a lot, it's constantly moving, the kinetic-drive keeps on charging the battery.

Actually would be badass for cellphones (their ALWAYS being moved around).

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Post by secos »

dryicerx wrote: post #62

A startup factory. A collection of hackers, marketing people, business minded people, and their product is making startups. The basic infrastructure very very fast. Then selling them out.

http://gangplankhq.com/ kickass guys and gals doing this in Phoenix, and http://jailbreakomaha.com getting started in Omaha, NE.

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Post by lacker »

cubicle67 wrote: post #120
noamsml wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Alternatively, just sell matching pairs of electronic tags (sticky) that both have buttons and beep when the other one is pressed.

Yep. I'd be sticking them on my kids shoes

My girlfriend says she would stick them on her shoes too, and that's a lot of shoes.

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Post by lacker »

ambition wrote: post #40
diego wrote: post #17

A search engine for your house. Tag every object that you care about with a tiny electronic label (could be an rfid chip). Some objects could come pre-tagged and added to your library the first time they cross your door. When you can't find something, find the object on your computer and start walking around the house with a wand that beeps louder as you get closer to the object. Would also work when you lose somethi…

It's been done and you can read all about it: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1169006

That has been done in the sense that it has been designed, not in the sense that I can buy a pair of beep-stickers to put on my shoes.
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