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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by personlurking »

jasallen wrote: post #109
personlurking wrote: post #19

Just going to throw this one out there. I live in Lisbon, it's tourist-central (I'm from SF and I've never seen so many tourists). Since I see a ton of lost people every single day there should be a way to digitally leave comments on things and places and a free one-stop shop to find such info (like Wikitravel). This info, although having a central repository, should be pushed out to an app that connects to one's pho…

I really love this idea. Reddit-ish, but sort by proximity to location as well as quality score. That way, if you are in a densely commented area, you will see comments about your surrounding few meters/yards, but if you are in a less trafficked area you might see comments on your feed about something a few miles/km away, giving you a destination. Rather than 'fencing' regions then, if it could be done to just sort p…

Nice!

The other issue is what occupies people's hands. It's surprising for me to see how many tourists use traditional maps (though, on the flip side, one never knows when someone is looking at a map on their smartphone), and how many people don't ask passers-by questions in order to get help. A dedicated app would mean less happenstance intereaction while abroad but it would also help not waste time (and give more time for more sights to see).

Another HN commenter mentioned offline capability, in this sense it could be like Wikipedia's make an e-book function, where you'd get, in the case of my idea, the pertinent street view photos, together with the right info downloaded to your phone. For ex, "give me top 10 comments on the Mona Lisa, 5 levels deep and for the Moulin Rouge, which I'm more interested in, give me the top 20 comments, 10 levels deep."

If a 'chapter' is to be added while on your trip, because you heard about something new and cool, then all that's needed is a wifi connection to download the right info and add it to the multimedia 'book'.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by cdelahousse »

rjf1990 wrote: post #48

Airbnb, but paid with labor. Many travelers are short on cash but would love to trade services for a night's stay. Me, I would be happy to host a guest for free provided they did my dishes or laundry. Many homeowners, especially empty-nesters, have homes with plenty of space that they still have to maintain. This would provide benefits to both parties.

This sounds a lot like a home/urban oriented WWOFing (http://www.wwoof.net/) and a bit like CouchSurfing.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by kmeil »

ape4 wrote: post #49

zipcar/uber: A service that delivers a car you drive to where you are when you want it. Maybe you call up an hour before or via an app. And/or the opposite: you have driven somewhere can don't want the car anymore - eg drinking.

Valet anywhere? Valetanywhere.com

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by manish_gill »

conroy wrote: post #147
manish_gill wrote: post #140

This might be fairly simple, but I can't find a good solution - A replacement for Google Groups. More specifically, a better UI to use Mailing Lists. Perhaps like vBulletin or other advance forum software. Maybe even built-in support in my email client? For the life of me, I can't find a good way to use Mailing Lists. I don't like receiving 40+ messages every day, but I don't find digest mode good enough either. Goog…

Have you tried Discourse? It's Jeff Atwood's open source forum software.

I glanced at it when it made some news. I have the same problem with Discourse - unnecessary javascript just to view static text on the web.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by gamegoblin »

I really hate the format of arguments/debates in person. I feel like they would be a lot more rational if done through email or something, where one isn't expected to respond immediately as part of a conversation.

I'd like a website which facilitated debates, allowed debaters to branch off multiple threads of debate and close threads once they are settled (ideally until all threads are closed), backreference other threads, citation lists that get automatically aggregated, etc.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by simpleAJ »

harryh wrote: post #146

Build a company around creating a best in class development environment that they can sell to other tech companies. This would involve everything from repository management (on top of git) to build & compilation tooling to automated testing and probably more than that eventually. Once companies reach a certain scale they inevitably expend some of their resources on building internal development tools. At Foursquare w…

How about Phabricator- http://phabricator.org/

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by manish_gill »

groovy2shoes wrote: post #148
manish_gill wrote: post #140

This might be fairly simple, but I can't find a good solution - A replacement for Google Groups. More specifically, a better UI to use Mailing Lists. Perhaps like vBulletin or other advance forum software. Maybe even built-in support in my email client? For the life of me, I can't find a good way to use Mailing Lists. I don't like receiving 40+ messages every day, but I don't find digest mode good enough either. Goog…

Something like DFeed? Example: http://forum.dlang.org/ Source: https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed

Huh, this actually looks nice!

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by hackerpolicy »

mukeshsoni wrote: post #103

A site which keeps track of which of these 'Idea Sunday' ideas actually got implemented and how are they doing 1 year, 2 years, 5 years or 10 years later. Will give empirical data only how powerful are ideas.

How would you keep track of the ideas that have been implemented/are being worked on? User-submitted?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by philip1209 »

An app that shares the password of local wifi - e.g. for the coffee shop you are sitting in.

Perhaps neither practical nor legal, but something that would be useful when the barista is feeling snarky and you don't want to return a second time to ask for the wifi password.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by realrocker »

A mobile app to gamify recruitment. Users can win small amounts of credit by 1) referring friends(from phonebook) for a job 2) reviewing jobs to put them in the baskets of: not applicable, interested but not actively looking, interested and applying.This credit can be redeemed for non-cash items like: gift cards and coupons. Recruiters pay a fee(in-app payment) to post jobs. In return they get: 1) leads to candidates who applied and 2) profile summary of people who found the job interesting but did not apply or found it not applicable. For e.g: 10 applied(list of contact info), 15 found the job interesting but did not apply(of which: 70 % are web developers, 60 % have salaries more than 100k, 80 % are more than 5 years of exp. I have been working on a prototype but it still need to iron out a few wrinkles idea-wise.
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