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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#21
A notepad that can send my handwritten notes to the cloud. It should have a mini-scaner embedded into the top cover so when I want to backup a note, I just close the notepad, push the cover, remove the first page, close, push again.

None of these ipad apps can substitute the good old pencil drawings

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#22
post #18

examine.com meets google scholar Place for all scientific studies to be elucidated with plain english explanations, analysis, information on shortcomings, links to related studies, open questions, links to further information. Would be community created content, but needs some sort of community voting/moderation system to surface the best content and empower the most knowledgable/trusted contributors. Ideally this wo…

I'm trying with http://www.sciencegist.com

The difficult part is getting contributions and building anything sustainable around this idea. You can reach me at info@sciencegist.com if you want to chat.

There's also http://usefulscience.org/ and http://sciworthy.com/ but I think they both have staff to write content.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#23

A programmer social network. I find myself with two distinct sets of friends on Facebook: my tech friends and my normal friends. With my tech friends, I just want to post neat snippets of code as statuses and share github gists on walls and whatnot. So I'd like basically github with more social elements thrown in. Imagine seeing a cool repo, then being able to friend the owner, and open a chat box to have a quick cha…

http://forrst.com/

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#24

A programmer social network. I find myself with two distinct sets of friends on Facebook: my tech friends and my normal friends. With my tech friends, I just want to post neat snippets of code as statuses and share github gists on walls and whatnot. So I'd like basically github with more social elements thrown in. Imagine seeing a cool repo, then being able to friend the owner, and open a chat box to have a quick cha…

I built something like this about 4 years ago called BigStartups.com. It was built to help network the startup community and was moderately successful. Unfortunately, there were co-founder issues and we shut it down. I often think about what it could be in todays world if we kept working on it. Oh well...

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#26
post #3

Create an RFID and/or NFC (Near Field Communication) READER that can mount on a DSLR and dump read data into an IPTC field.

I could imagine a variety of services to go along with modular, open hardware for proximity communication. My impression is that this is a relatively unaddressed market.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#27

Just for developers: Something that allowed you to change the IP your request resolves to with a modified URL instead of editing the hosts file, like this: 127.0.0.1:: http://mysite.com/ Benefits: Not as much work, not as permanent, you can use multiple at once, you can easily see where you are connecting. I think this is something web developers would pay a few bucks for. I know I would.

Is this possible with a Chrome Extension?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#28

Just for developers: Something that allowed you to change the IP your request resolves to with a modified URL instead of editing the hosts file, like this: 127.0.0.1:: http://mysite.com/ Benefits: Not as much work, not as permanent, you can use multiple at once, you can easily see where you are connecting. I think this is something web developers would pay a few bucks for. I know I would.

Is this possible with a Chrome Extension?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#29

Just for developers: Something that allowed you to change the IP your request resolves to with a modified URL instead of editing the hosts file, like this: 127.0.0.1:: http://mysite.com/ Benefits: Not as much work, not as permanent, you can use multiple at once, you can easily see where you are connecting. I think this is something web developers would pay a few bucks for. I know I would.

Is this possible with a Chrome Extension?
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