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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by qvikr »

miguelrochefort wrote: post #85

An IDE for ideas. Intellisense for thoughts. For those of you who develop using powerful IDEs (such as Visual Studio, Eclipse, ...), it's hard to imagine going back to a basic notepad. Most people, most of the time, don't write software. They exchange ideas, express wishes, share their feelings. And to do that, they use tools that are not more powerful than a basic notepad. This forces them to be explicit, to explain…

That's what we're building with our startup germ.io [http://germ.io] - as a product to help you log your ideas, evolve them with more detailed sub-ideas, and move them through incubation to execution.

Why? I think the key is exactly what you've said - to think linearly. Ideas often mushroom to end us up in a place drastically different from where we started, so the end result is not really linear. But we need to think about the next step in an idea linearly if we ever want to get something done. That is where mind maps (non-linear all the way) and traditional task-based tools (too linear) fall short.

Check out what we have at germ.io, signup and if you'd like in on what we're building right now just ding me a message.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by raldi »

raldi wrote: post #74
jhardcastle wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I thought reddit fixed its search function sometime in, like, 2010. What have you searched for recently that didn't give the results you were looking for?

(sound of crickets)

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by curlyreggie »

sambeau wrote: post #37

A meetings clock that counts UP the price of a meeting based on the the salaries of the people in the room.

Good Idea. But I'd say it should be the other way around. Focussing on developers (the lower salary cream), higher the developers in the meeting, greater the loss. (Higher people are busy in meetings throughout anyway..)

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by curlyreggie »

This might be trivial. One of my friends is a serious blogger (she has around 7-8 blog sites on various topics she writes). Why not a simple blog aggregator to post in blogs into the site you wish?

E.g., You want to blog for tumblr, create a post here and then it gets auto-posted to tumblr directly.

Of course, the API issues and permissions are another headache to worry about.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by personlurking »

nbardy wrote: post #454
personlurking wrote: post #19

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…

I was thinking this exact same thing while traveling. Location based wikitravel essentially.

You got it, more than a Reddit-style thing, I think a location based wikitravel is what my original idea was leaning towards.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by personlurking »

rhizome wrote: post #323
personlurking wrote: post #19

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…

For geofenced commenting, how would you deal with the "BILLY IS A FAG" problem?

via comment voting

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by dpix »

pubby wrote: post #39

A twitter/imageboard system where it takes 2 weeks for messages to appear once posted. The idea being that messages still relevant in 2 weeks are important and interesting ones.

I've thought about the opposite of this idea for a while, a social media platform where your posts/updates only last for a few days or perhaps longer based on engagement. How many people really look at your Facebook profile / Twitter feed from years ago, or even a few weeks ago? People are really only interested in what's happening right now. I guess this has kinda been filled by snapchat but only for photos, why not everything

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by fiatjaf »

hiis wrote: post #336

1) daily email that highlights the top 10 posts on HN (by points or by most comments) 2) simple way to share sensitive financial details with others (e.g., credit card payments, pay stubs, paypal history, bank transactions)

Make everyone sign up for keybase.io, then you encrypt the data with PGP and send to them.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by danohuiginn »

nathanathan wrote: post #38

[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: Git-story, a website that generates summary narratives from git commit histories and other github data. Here's a brain-dump with some ideas for the specifics: Use foreshadowing: "It all started with one person, X, spending months to gradually build what would one day become Y, a pro…

Neat idea. It's a bit like that facebook auto-generated video, but for github.

Include a decent plugin architecture, and you could get lots of contributions to add in data from everyone's pet CI system, bugtracker, download counter, etc.

[actually, if you started with something like Rails, you could launch versions from old code, take screenshots, and stitch together a video]

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by anupshinde »

miguelrochefort wrote: post #130

Why are recipes linear and textual? I'm surprised the recipe-book metaphor sticked with us for that long. I want a social cooking platform where the only way to represent a recipe is with a diagram. http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/156044/2247517/Pancak... You're a cooking master? No need to explain you how to make a roux or how to blanch vegetables. Don't have butter? We'll substitute the step where you need b…

I like the idea. Creating different recipes with different or optional ingredients. I had been thinking if there is such a tool to experiment and document different recipes. I might also want to branch out from an existing step, make changes and merge back to the original step. BUT at the end - when I actually cook something and don't want to experiment or change the ingredients - I would like to see the recipe in a linear format.
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