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Brainstorm HN: Outlandish Startup Ideas Pool

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Re: Brainstorm HN: Outlandish Startup Ideas Pool

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Post by lacker »

dryicerx wrote: post #54

A DBUS like system for the internet (for message passing and multi casting events to registered handlers). It's like twitter, except for application to application/people communication. You first visit the site and create a data structure and register it at the X service website. Then a application can send messages in that data structure to the X service. Other services/applications/websites/people can register (lik…

I would use it. Can you also include a cross-browser javascript library to listen for these events? Push over http sucks and this could fix it.

Re: Brainstorm HN: Outlandish Startup Ideas Pool

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Post by lacker »

myoung8 wrote: post #26
staticshock wrote: post #19

Cars that drive without a human at the wheel. This is the norm for sci-fi movies, and we still don't have it.

We do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_(vehicle)

But I can't buy one. A startup that solved this problem would have to solve a lot of legal issues as well as technical ones.

Also Stanley can't drive in traffic. What I really want is something that can commute for me from San Francisco to Silicon Valley while I play video games.

Re: Brainstorm HN: Outlandish Startup Ideas Pool

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Post by dryicerx »

klein_waffle wrote: post #97
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.

That's an incubator. Been done.

The current sense of Incubators are a bit different, they look for groups with ideas, take them under their wing for a fraction of stakes, and let them go. The ideas always come from the outside.

What I am saying is, even the ideas are brainstormed inside. Imagine 100 great minded people every month sitting down and choosing a good idea (that originated from the inside), and all of them putting their efforts in to implementing it. You do that every month.

Re: Brainstorm HN: Outlandish Startup Ideas Pool

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Post by mrtron »

mooders wrote: post #5

1. Go on a diet. 2. Open [web|desktop] app. 3. Select diet plan (atkins; south beach; XYZ etc). 4. Select number of people in household. 5. Select number of people on diet. 6. Select dietary options (eg gluten-free). 7. Select budget. 8. Add credentials and payment details for preferred online grocery store. 9. App notes diet plan and previous shopping activity to reduce duplication, finds recipes and extracts ingred…

That is effectively what a bunch of the new diet plans do - where you purchase meals from them.

The benefit to the user is you don't have to cook - and you can charge a pretty good margin for making the meals.

Re: Brainstorm HN: Outlandish Startup Ideas Pool

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Post by jimmybot »

Device where every time you mutter a complaint it records it and attempts to match it up and send it to the correct recipient. The complaints are anonymous, but tracks whether the complaint was responded to or not. If so, the complainer gets more karma and is prioritized higher. There could be the opposite marking of spam or unreasonable. The eventual goal is to identify complainer pundit wizards that will make the world better by walking around and muttering (bitching) about their dislikes.

Re: Brainstorm HN: Outlandish Startup Ideas Pool

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Post by zackattack »

mrduncan wrote: post #95

A twitter clone that requires you to pass a spelling and grammar check and use more than 140 characters

This actually is a good idea for something like a bloglines subscription where you have to read everyone else's posts before you can post...
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