Brainstorm HN: Outlandish Startup Ideas Pool

Post by Angostura » Sun, May 10, 2009, 10:26 PM UTC

jrp wrote: post #36

anigbrowl wrote: post #13

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Already exists. These are the norm in Europe, I have no idea why they're not popular in the US. We Europeans enjoy mocking antiquated American home appliances and can't believe you still use stovetop kettles and blenders from the 1950s. http://www.gelighting.com/apo/products/appliances/clothes_ca... It looks like a regular washing machine, you just put your clothes in the front, set the buttons, and 2 hours later the…

I have experienced these 'spin driers' built into washers. They spin my clothes for two hours but don't contain a heating element, so nothing happens. Possibly everywhere I have lived has happened to have a broken one.

Post by catch23 » Sun, May 10, 2009, 10:38 PM UTC

anigbrowl wrote: post #13

vaksel wrote: post #9

A washer/dryer combo that works as a single unit, so that you don't have to move things manually from one to the other. I see it as a 2 story contraption, washer on top, dryer on the bottom. After the washer is done, a trap door opens and the clothes fall into the dryer, which then auto-starts. As you can guess, I was doing laundry recently

Already exists. These are the norm in Europe, I have no idea why they're not popular in the US. We Europeans enjoy mocking antiquated American home appliances and can't believe you still use stovetop kettles and blenders from the 1950s. http://www.gelighting.com/apo/products/appliances/clothes_ca... It looks like a regular washing machine, you just put your clothes in the front, set the buttons, and 2 hours later the…

Post by chaosmachine » Sun, May 10, 2009, 10:43 PM UTC

Post by sachinag » Sun, May 10, 2009, 10:50 PM UTC

callmeed wrote: post #14

A Woot.com for travel Unlike other last min travel sites, this would offer just 1 product per day with 0 or 1 options Example: "2 nights at the Edgewater Seattle 6/1-6/3 for $179 total" OR "2 RT tix LAX Vegas + 2 nights at Bellagio for $379 total 6/1-6/3" Just need to find some travel companies who are willing to work with you. They just need to agree to block off X number of rooms/flights for that date. If the site…

Post by jjs » Sun, May 10, 2009, 10:54 PM UTC

bbuffone wrote: post #30

I have three great ideas for startups that fit this request. 1.) scambledporn.com - If you can remember tv before it went digital, porn used to be scambled by varying the horizontal sync of the tv signal for that channel. This made it unwatchable, unless you were really really patience. My idea is to create a website that has porn that works on the same concept; it would be scrambled until people pay to have it unscr…