Twitter for all things non-human. Like my coffee machine tweeting me that the pot's empty or the new brew's ready.
I like that. But the real idea is then to have some physical thingie for a few $ that can send tweets.
Brainstorm HN: Outlandish Startup Ideas Pool
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#172A twitter clone that requires you to pass a spelling and grammar check and use more than 140 characters
Maybe check posts using http://stupidfilter.org/main/
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#173Kidnap vacations. The ultimate thrill ride. You pay them some amount of money and they will arrive at your home, blindfold you, put you on a plane, and then take it off once you are in the foreign country. Then you have to work out where you are and how to get back. I believe the government has been doing this for a while now.
There was a CSI Miami episode depicting this when it went wrong.
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#176Kidnap vacations. The ultimate thrill ride. You pay them some amount of money and they will arrive at your home, blindfold you, put you on a plane, and then take it off once you are in the foreign country. Then you have to work out where you are and how to get back. I believe the government has been doing this for a while now.
I would seriously do that, it sounds fun.
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yeah, justininindia.tv?
Depending on what 'large markets in other countries' you're talking about, I see a few immediate problems: -monetizing: a lot of these people don't have the money for additional services like this. Additionally, they /know/ the markets well, they're their markets! It's home! -customer base: this is similar to monetizing. How many people are you going to reach that would actually want your service? This is an interest…
People in home markets would definitely pay a big premium and often do verses the cost price. I've seen many americans who come down to Guatemala or mexico for a day or two and pay 10x the price I paid and not question it. They could do the same thing from home without the cost of the flight (not to say they would, since they like the holiday)
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#178Kidnap vacations. The ultimate thrill ride. You pay them some amount of money and they will arrive at your home, blindfold you, put you on a plane, and then take it off once you are in the foreign country. Then you have to work out where you are and how to get back. I believe the government has been doing this for a while now.
You might like "The Game" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119174/
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I owned one of these when I lived in a studio in Avalon Apartments in SF. They're not very good at drying though (or at least my model didn't work so well).
I've used at least a dozen different ones. They all suck compared with dedicated washer/dryers. Besides that, it seriously slows you down if you want to wash a lot of stuff.
Mine only drys about half the amount it washes so you have to part empty it before drying or put less in a the start (thus wasting water)
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#180Set up inexpensive wireless cameras pointed at all street parking spots in the city. (doesn't have to be wireless cameras - pick any method or device that can reliably detect whether a parking spot is empty, cameras are the most flexible). Feed that data to a server, then dish it out to mobile devices (iPhone, etc.) combined with GPS to find the nearest street parking spot. Bonus points for intelligent behavior like…
StreetView Live: Like street view but based on webcams, always up to date and live action.