Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: Idea Sunday

news.ycombinator.com

21–30 of 523 posts

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#21
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In what way would it be different from SoundCloud? No fancy commenting? Anonymous uploads?

Yes. And a single use - upload and share. And SoundCloud is mostly for music, this is for random audio files only. Also, I'd like to make the service free, ad free, and maybe add a very cheap pro option.

[deleted]

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#22
Free network (data, voice, mobile) monitoring in exchange for personalized and general/statistical data based recommendations (which plan to change, which ISPs in the area are best, etc.)

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#23

Ok I'll go first. It's an "Imgur for audio files". Now there's times when you record an audio and want to share it. What do you do? Uhh,, umm.... Yup. exactly. There's no reliable, easy-to-use app to share audio files (not music). So, this is a web/mobile app for easily uploading and sharing audio files, and playing them. I don't have a full plan laid out, but I'll work on it for sure. (If you'd like to be notified w…

could soundcloud help with this?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#24
[X-post from the previous Idea Sunday thread that didn't make it to the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7616132]

Idea: a new way to purchase and set up a fish tank. Currently, you have two options:

a) Buy everything separately - tank, filter, heater, plants, fish. You have to find out whether your fish and plants are compatible and your tank is big enough for what you want etc. You have to figure out where to put the heater and filter so that it doesn't look unsightly.

b) Buy a prebuilt tank with the filter and heater etc. pre-installed somewhere not too ugly. You still have to figure out which livestock you can keep, based on tank size, filter type, plants, and whether they can live with the other livestock you want. You also have to live with the prebuilt tank company's design decisions, which you might not like.

The solution: a company that offers minimalistic, sleek tanks with a modular system for adding filters, heaters, skimmers, lighting, etc. that keeps the equipment out of the way and not looking ugly. Also, an online service where they can select and order the modular tank and equipment that they want, and be allowed to choose from compatible livestock and plants. Alternatively, they can start with livestock that they want and they can be recommended the right modular tank and equipment etc. They can pay for everything all together and the items would be delivered as they are needed (with marine tanks, for example, you have to let the tank 'cycle' for a few weeks so that the water parameters normalise before you can add livestock).

What do you guys think?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#25
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not positive, but perhaps expensify would suit your needs? https://www.expensify.com/

More along the lines of an application that would do inventory management: http://www.businessbee.com/resources/technology/essential-el... I've been googling but can't find anything

Most of the enterprise applications that do inventory management (Spiceworks, Altiris, etc.) have clients that run on your network that can poll the hardware for detailed specifics. They track the logged-on user, the serial number, the BIOS date, etc. Obviously some do this better than others (I have yet to see one that does networked printers, projectors, smart TVs, etc).

What would you pay for this service, annually? What are the features you would find most useful?

  Forward an email receipt to yourcompanyA87y5@trackmyreceipts.com and have it auto-create a purchase record
  Upload a PDF invoice or receipt
  Manually create a purchase
  Track purchase orders
  Enter serial numbers
  Track depreciation
  Produce reports of in-service equipment
  Enter a comment about deployed location (e.g. John Smith, or Board Room)
  Track service history?
Inventory management is a big topic. It sounds like you want a niche product, or that you perhaps need to look at some of the players in the space.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#26

Ok I'll go first. It's an "Imgur for audio files". Now there's times when you record an audio and want to share it. What do you do? Uhh,, umm.... Yup. exactly. There's no reliable, easy-to-use app to share audio files (not music). So, this is a web/mobile app for easily uploading and sharing audio files, and playing them. I don't have a full plan laid out, but I'll work on it for sure. (If you'd like to be notified w…

could soundcloud help with this?

Maybe? I mean I could use their API and provide a simpler interface. Maybe not? I'd like this to be a standalone service though.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#27
post #8

Ok I'll go first. It's an "Imgur for audio files". Now there's times when you record an audio and want to share it. What do you do? Uhh,, umm.... Yup. exactly. There's no reliable, easy-to-use app to share audio files (not music). So, this is a web/mobile app for easily uploading and sharing audio files, and playing them. I don't have a full plan laid out, but I'll work on it for sure. (If you'd like to be notified w…

In what way would it be different from SoundCloud? No fancy commenting? Anonymous uploads?

The big thing about imgur is the community. Consider the front page of imgur. I think that's the cool thing about the idea.

You usually go to Soundcloud because you're linked there, it's not something that easily builds its own culture.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#28

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…

Reddit for real places rather than links? Upvotes and downvotes, comments (with upvotes and downvotes). A search function (that actually works) laid over Google Maps rather than textual links? Interesting.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#29

Ok I'll go first. It's an "Imgur for audio files". Now there's times when you record an audio and want to share it. What do you do? Uhh,, umm.... Yup. exactly. There's no reliable, easy-to-use app to share audio files (not music). So, this is a web/mobile app for easily uploading and sharing audio files, and playing them. I don't have a full plan laid out, but I'll work on it for sure. (If you'd like to be notified w…

ytmnd.com

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#30
Idea: StackOverflow for comebacks

I've always had a hard time coming up with a good comeback in conversations. It would be great to have a site where I could post a situation and have the community suggest and upvote/downvote insults and comebacks. Maybe introduce a real-time element so I could use it in an actual conversation.

Post reply on HN