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How about an website that collects/harvests good startup ideas? Like what we're doing on this HN page?
This post comes up regularly on HN, and a comment like yours is pretty much guaranteed to accompany it. I wonder why such a site has yet to exist?
The code is there, Im just not sharing it with you yet :D (some cleaning up to do and a bit of fine tuning)
(not the best one, but just some thought) a website that allow FOSS community to pay up developers based on community request. basic goal : to speed up FOSS development. i.e: let just say that user A want to donate $100 to pay any developer to create a 3D driver for X card. Later, user B want it to and increase the pot $150, and so on, and so on. At some time, some developers take a request and developing it, publish…
Add fins to catch the wind on the sides of airplane wheels so that the wheels automatically begin to spin on landing approaches. This should help by reducing the amount of rubber that is lost on landing and increase the useful lifespan of airplane tires.
http://www.edwards.af.mil/archive/2002/2002-archive-new_inve...
I think the 747 actually has motors that spin the wheels up. The lateral slide is actually not a big issue, the landing gear on most larger aircraft are steerable to allow for that ("crab landing" I think it's called).
Another idea in the file right after that one was to put vacuum flasks into car engines to keep the fluids hot after the engine is turned off. In theory this would reduce emissions & engine wear by reducing the number of cold starts. Turns out the Prius has that already.
On the other hand a Boeing engineer came up with the idea of the little winglets you see on airliners now, Boeing passed on the idea so he took it outside and worked with a guy named Joe Clark. Their company (Aviation Partners) has done very well.
I think the takeaway is that as an outsider to one of these mature industries you may come up with new ideas but you're also at a significant disadvantage compared to insiders.
Deep search of local stores. Several times I have needed to get product X, be it a hammer, sandals etc. but have no idea where to get it locally. Do I have to take the bus to center, or is it sold in some of the smaller shops around me? One weekend we spent hours looking for sandals. At least here local shops don't list specific items they have on their websites. I imagine this would work by people contributing produ…
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I know, and I'm not claiming to have the answer, but basically the idea seems to be "electronic checks".
You guys know that in Europe this is common? It's called a "bank transfer" and it is trivial to do, just need people's bank account and routing number and yes, people do hand it out. Many (most? all?) bank websites support it. We have newly-arrived Europeans working at our US office that cannot believe people still write cheques here. [Edit since there has been some curiosity: here is who underwrites the scheme in th…
An online dating site that uses collaborative filtering on large datasets of people (perhaps Facebook as a dataset). Then inform potential couples when they are physically close to each other via cell phone/geolocation.
I've been thinking about something like this for the last few months. I think the mobile element is a great idea, and a very nice ice breaker - "Hey there, I'm Trent415 and superdate.com said you and I have a lot in common." Plus, you could determine if there was a mutual friend close by to introduce you. I also think there needs to be a wed based version that isn't location based, but I do like the mobile idea a lot…
I like http://ge.la.to and their take on this better than Thread, but I'm not entirely confident in their execution. Several aspects of the site didn't work for me and I think the need to fine tune their data mining algorithms. A profile's most recently/often talked about topics should not include "ff" and "rt" from Twitter. ;)
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Why limit it to flights? You could create a whole new stalking service! 1. Aggregate location info and travel plans of key celebrities from Twitter 2. ??? 3. Profit
I know you're joking around but I thought I'd answer anyway. The key aspect of flights is that your "victim" isn't going anywhere. He's stuck in that seat and can't escape nearly as easily as he could if you approached him in a cafe, museum, etc. EG - Got a startup that'll need buy in from a major wireless carrier (you're gon' change the industry like the iPhone did!) but can't get attention from any of them? Imagine…
How about an website that collects/harvests good startup ideas? Like what we're doing on this HN page?
The Wikipedia of genealogy: a family tree for the entire human race, which everyone can edit and add to.
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I don't. I just want to be left alone, UNLESS there is a cutie next to me; then I am interested. But, that happens almost never.
In my experience socializing with a bunch of random people - even in the form of short, useless conversations - leads to cuties. I have a no-iPod rule these days - I never listen to music on the go. Headphones-on is a great way to miss out on interesting people in life. [edit] Also, this is in no way a comment on what you ought to be doing - but for myself I find that when I feel absolutely beat and just feel like cr…
(Sniff, sniff... what is that weird smell? Ah! There is an extrovert on HN! Anyone got tar and feathers?)
I personally like people and get unhappy if I spend too much time alone. And yes, I might be in the wrong profession.
But despite having quite a social personality, I get tired from being with people -- not energized, like you extroverts. A majority @HN probably are introverts.
(And no, I don't really know or care that much about pop psychology, but this is quite an obvious difference.)