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A Chrome extension that solves CAPTCHAs with a click. Charge me 1 USD for 10 credits and then outsource the solving to some of those shady sites for $0.001 each.

Kinda like www.deathbycaptcha.com ?

Exactly. But I'm suggesting a "bridge" that would sit between this, so I'd pay a "premium" for 10 credits, but everything would be solved with a click.

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Here's an app idea. Show notifications when the device is within a certain distance from the location of a past historical event. ...or past Crime ...or a message another app user has left.

would be a cool bike or car app - your get a notice when you are near a hotspot for bike or auto accidents. Give the user a heads up. Possibly to scrape this data from county GIS sites or police maps.

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Track your stuff for insurance loss. SaaS app that prints out small bar code stickers. add these to your stuff. assign $ value and if you have receipt (can email phone pic of receipt to app). If you are going on a trip, make video of all bar code stickers and upload to app site. Site will parse video and compile a list of your items that are going with you on your trip and assign a replacement value. This app would be perfect for people with homeowners insurance that replaces goods that are burned or stolen etc.

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I feel like I have tons of ideas but nowhere near the time to pursue even a fraction of them. I like a lot of these ideas and wish at least someone would pick one up and run with it so that I could take advantage of the product/service. I'd like a site where I could post such ideas. Allow for someone to post an idea with an explanation. Other users can discuss and tweak the idea and eventually, if there is enough sup…

I think http://www.quirky.com does exactly this

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post #234

I feel like I have tons of ideas but nowhere near the time to pursue even a fraction of them. I like a lot of these ideas and wish at least someone would pick one up and run with it so that I could take advantage of the product/service. I'd like a site where I could post such ideas. Allow for someone to post an idea with an explanation. Other users can discuss and tweak the idea and eventually, if there is enough sup…

I think http://www.quirky.com does exactly this

I was recently informed of Quirky. From my understanding, ideas are posted and the community votes on them and then the Quirky development team builds it. Sounds great but I still think my idea above would be serving a different goal. Any idea could be worked on regardless of votes (though the more popular ones would naturally see more work) and teams would be formed from anyone who wants to join in and is accepted by that team.

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Here's a few I've been thinking about: - Remote aid delivery by drone: build and send small robotic aircraft to remote areas and drop aid, preferably starting with medicine (lightweight and very useful). Small helicopters (quadrotor drone copters as you see at TED/MIT) could land and accept return packages if necessary. Trips could be made to hazardous places where human-driven aid drops can't venture. Additionally,…

"Remote aid delivery by drone" is something I know Matternet, a Singularity University affiliated startup, is doing: http://matternet.us/our-vision/

http://openrelief.org/ - is a project that's laying down some useful foundations for Drone delivery.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not just have an option on a site to bypass CAPTCHA on a site by paying $0.10 via PayPal or some other method?

It'd be hard to convince people running sites that they should accept 0.10 to let me bypass the captcha. It'd be easier to solve this on my side and for every site at the same time.

There's an "If I got 10 cents everytime someone complained about using CAPTCHA..." joke in there somewhere, I just know it.

I could honestly see this working. Your site enrolls to the program, people can put money in $1, $5, $10 dollars at a time. Site owners get $0.05 per signup through the service and can collect for every 1k users signed up (paid in $50 increments).

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A service that syncs your resume with companies' Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS). The problem: you're applying for jobs at three different companies. Each company uses their own Applicant Tracking System (eg. Taleo, Kenexa, PeopleAdmin). That means you get to fill out your resume three different times, which is tedious and error prone. It would be nice to have a service where you input your resume once and then it j…

A little OT, but I don't understand recruiters that e-mail you on LinkedIn asking you to send them your resume.

I've even told one to print off my LinkedIn profile page as my resume, since it's the most up to date, but they still asked for one.

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OK, here is the list of my ideas. "working" on it for years, never had balls to start implementing, BUT I am computer programmer if you want to work on any of those together, let me know. Otherwise take it, "steal it", and make it big. And mention you heard it from joe :) - watches exchange club. you are doing as a middle man between watch lover. X amount to signup + monthly fee gives your user base access to each ot…

drawing together app. similar to draw something, but lets parents and children to use separate devices to draw together, or color cartoons, etc.

I was going to make something kinda like this myself one time. Ever since I played with PolyPaint some years ago I've been meaning to remake it, possibly with tons more features, more social aspects etc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-9qI7VAkWM&feature=playe...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQI41TQfyIM&feature=watch...

http://www.smariot.com/polypaint/

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post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It'd be hard to convince people running sites that they should accept 0.10 to let me bypass the captcha. It'd be easier to solve this on my side and for every site at the same time.

There's an "If I got 10 cents everytime someone complained about using CAPTCHA..." joke in there somewhere, I just know it. I could honestly see this working. Your site enrolls to the program, people can put money in $1, $5, $10 dollars at a time. Site owners get $0.05 per signup through the service and can collect for every 1k users signed up (paid in $50 increments).

Agreed. Might be tough to get over the "chicken and egg" problem. This is a startup idea, mine was more like a weekend project. I hope someone solves this thing.
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