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I call it notifyme.when. Users put in things they want to be notified about e.g., new book by Steven King released, Sequel to District 9 announced, Mortgage rates fall below 3.5%, etc.
Then other users log in and review the requests and post updates to any of the event they know have happened. You get points (like Stack Overflow) if you legitimacy update someone else's request.
A service which allows me to upload a document (PDF, .doc, whatever), input an address and then pay for it to be printed and sent to that address via mail (courier optional). I'd use this service so much: 1. Printers are fast becoming a thing of the past. How often will people need to use printers in five years time? 2. Lots of government functions still require printed documents (heck, even Twitter insisted that I f…
Interesting. I'd have thought the few things that needed to be printed would also need some sort of physical signature as well. Do you not find that to be the case? What situations do you find yourself in that would call for such a service? Would it make sense more for mass physical mailings via an API?
As an aside, in the EU a printed signature (i.e. printed text in a signature input field) is just as valid as a "real" signature.
A system that lest me maintain my contact details in one place, that other services can subscribe to for up-to-date info. Should also let me maintain who can see which details. When I change job, or lose my phone, or whatever, I can update my details, and my vCard in all my friends' address books gets updated accordingly.
Love this, and have been thinking about it for a while (after having moved literally 10 times in 10 years). I picture something similar to OAuth permissions, where at any point I can revoke access to all or specific pieces of information to anyone. As an extension (and this is potentially where the money is), I can think of an intermediary service (a-la Google Voice call widgets) that allows entities to contact me wi…
1. Version control of compositions; 2. Forks of other musicians' "repositories" / compositions; 3. Contributions to other musicians' songs; 4. Possibly play the songs online; 5. Private / public repos; 6. Individual / band / group / organization repos. 7. ???
Well I think it probably will be around. Most big (popular?) government programs aren't going away no matter what the media says.
So how about selling social security insurance. Buyers pay a premium each month to buy the insurance. And if social security isn't around when they retire the insurance pays out what they would have gotten from social security.
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People don't think the insurance idea is viable so let's turn this idea on its head. The company goes out and buys the future social security benefits (or some portion thereof) from individuals ands pays them say 10 cents on the dollar. People who don't think SS will be around think they're getting free money, and the company makes a bundle if SS stays around.
Heck, could the US government could be doing this to fix social security?
A service which allows me to upload a document (PDF, .doc, whatever), input an address and then pay for it to be printed and sent to that address via mail (courier optional). I'd use this service so much: 1. Printers are fast becoming a thing of the past. How often will people need to use printers in five years time? 2. Lots of government functions still require printed documents (heck, even Twitter insisted that I f…
A service which allows me to upload a document (PDF, .doc, whatever), input an address and then pay for it to be printed and sent to that address via mail (courier optional). I'd use this service so much: 1. Printers are fast becoming a thing of the past. How often will people need to use printers in five years time? 2. Lots of government functions still require printed documents (heck, even Twitter insisted that I f…
Large chains like FedEx could implement this really efficiently since they already have offices all over the world. They can just print off at the nearest location to the target and minimize their expense. Getting a printed document hand delivered in an envelope can have a lot more impact over simply sending an email or fax.
Haven't thought this through very much, but it'd address some frustrations I've been having lately. If someone can come up with a means of getting around domain squatters, that'd be amazing. Kind of like a redirect service for legitimate businesses.
I've been learning about the domain squatting business recently, by basically becoming a domain squatter. It's something I've been fascinated by for years, I always wondered how profitable or easy it was. I've learnt quite a bit, and will get round to blogging things sometime, but the main lesson is - most domains earn nothing from adverts while on sedo or other marketplaces, and a decent offer of $500+ should get yo…
How about a GPS car navigation unit that detects if you're going too fast for an upcoming curve and warns you? It seems like it already has all the data.
Here's a simple idea I've been kicking around. I might just build it for fun. I call it notifyme.when. Users put in things they want to be notified about e.g., new book by Steven King released, Sequel to District 9 announced, Mortgage rates fall below 3.5%, etc. Then other users log in and review the requests and post updates to any of the event they know have happened. You get points (like Stack Overflow) if you leg…