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Re: What's an idea or creation that you've had success with locally that I can copy?

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Post by subhashp »

stoev wrote: post #3

Web crawler that collects comments on social and media websites and lets users analyse and visualise them. It's not very hard to build and provides a great service to businesses releasing PR articles and seeking feedback on them.

Stoev, Great idea! Where can I get a PHP script which does this?

Re: What's an idea or creation that you've had success with locally that I can copy?

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Post by bemmu »

veb wrote: post #15
bemmu wrote: post #8

Send local goods to foreign subscribers in monthly surprise shipments.

Nice to see you around Bemmu! How is CandayJapan going? you still owe me a free shipment for endorsing you ;-) In seriousness though, this is excellent advice - have a taste of something that's just not local. I know a well known YC company founder wanted to do something similar with whiskey... but ran into way too much overhead and administration issues with customs - costs, legality, shipping and way too much to li…

Thanks it's doing great, I was planning on writing an updated post about it. Well, here's rough early draft: http://piratepad.net/bchs9UaK6A

I wasn't sure if you were joking about promising a free shipment or not, so I sent you a gift card over email just to be sure :)

Re: What's an idea or creation that you've had success with locally that I can copy?

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Post by js7 »

kephra wrote: post #20

We did make a free beer mobile application in 1999, when cell phones had been still big, called Happy Hopper. The idea of the service was: You send an SMS to our server, we send you an SMS back to a pub in town, together with a riddle to solve in that pub. Solve that riddle and you get a free beer and the address of the next pub. The SMS also served as a ticket for the bus. Success of this service was based on workin…

That sounds great haha. I live in Ireland so it's bound to be popular!

Re: What's an idea or creation that you've had success with locally that I can copy?

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Post by js7 »

abestic9 wrote: post #5

Taxi/bus company rate comparisons. Most transit companies provide fare information on their website, as well as a search function which rarely includes a CAPTCHA, so getting updates is easy.

There's not many bus services in my city and the taxi situation is:

- Flag the taxi down - all the same price

- Hailo which loads of people use all the time now

- 20% discount taxis

- 25% discount taxis

So I don't think we really have a taxi problem

Re: What's an idea or creation that you've had success with locally that I can copy?

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Post by js7 »

subhashp wrote: post #21
stoev wrote: post #3

Web crawler that collects comments on social and media websites and lets users analyse and visualise them. It's not very hard to build and provides a great service to businesses releasing PR articles and seeking feedback on them.

Stoev, Great idea! Where can I get a PHP script which does this?

I can write you one if you can't find one

Re: What's an idea or creation that you've had success with locally that I can copy?

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Post by mwww »

stoev wrote: post #3

Web crawler that collects comments on social and media websites and lets users analyse and visualise them. It's not very hard to build and provides a great service to businesses releasing PR articles and seeking feedback on them.

http://www.mention.com
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