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Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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Post by aaronblohowiak »

decadentcactus wrote: post #45
tocomment wrote: post #34

Room service robot for hotels. It could basically be a motorized cart. It would be easy for it to get around in big hotels with elevators.

Might it be easier to just build a dedicated sort of line for each room? Like a part of the wall that opens up and is connected to the kitchen/wherever, to deliver your food. Would be harder at first but it'd be much easier down the line, and more efficient.

hotels rent space. your suggestion limits space. do you think that the advantage of robot server compared to humans would offset the huge decrease in available space to rent?

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Post by jrp »

cglee wrote: post #42

Filter or customize your tv ads. I hate it when a horror movie ad comes on and I have to scramble to change the channel. Similarly, I may like watching John&Kate+8, but that doesn't mean I want to watch the typically associated feminine hygiene commercials.

Also, how about not having to see the same ad three times during a given show? At this point maybe we're getting too close to tivo for the advertisers to feel comfortable.

Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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Post by theantidote »

A Taxi service site and iPhone app. Lets you send your current location to the cab company with your iPhone and then track the cab as it arrives. Maybe even offer a prepay option so you can pay with your paypal account and just read off a confirmation number to the cab driver or something at the end of the trip for them to bill you with. Maybe in order to prevent confusion over more than one cab being called from the same location the app can light your phone screen up in a unique color for you to call the cab with as it approaches.

This wouldn't really be necessary in NYC where cabs are ubiquitous but in DC it would be useful.

EDIT: Crud, already sorta exists: http://taximagic.com/

Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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Post by brfox »

cglee wrote: post #42

Filter or customize your tv ads. I hate it when a horror movie ad comes on and I have to scramble to change the channel. Similarly, I may like watching John&Kate+8, but that doesn't mean I want to watch the typically associated feminine hygiene commercials.

How about at least filtering the online ads. Just put a little link in the corner of the ad that allows you to say "no thanks, I never want to see this ad again."

Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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Post by paul7986 »

Have this idea/started web design, but busy with work. It's a crazy out there possibly good idea or bad.

http://fornicatur.com - a new way to meet people for well...

Though tech could be white labeled for any topic - beyond theme of domain above (GPS locate hiking buddies in central park, people who like your favorite movie, tons of stuff... interesting new way to meet people).

Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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Post by corentin »

LogicHoleFlaw wrote: post #44
tocomment wrote: post #36

Sell sunscreen in little packets (like ketchup packets) that can fit in your wallet. That way you'll never forget sunscreen. Should I patent* this? * I hate patents.

But what do you do when you have sunscreen on your burger and mayo on your back? I think this might backfire.

You could invent some sunscreen mayonaise.

Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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Post by pudo »

goodgoblin wrote: post #4

I would love something that aggregated all your karma points into an exchange of some kind. I would use it, but I would never build it.

I have been coding a prototype of this in my free time over the past couple of weeks. It's fun, but I'm not sure it actually makes lots of sense.

Not only is it really hard come up with a model to convert currency from many places into a "standardized" format (or even to allow for OpenID-style distribution) - it'll also not be easy to provide data to other sites that allows them to do useful things easily. Tags might be as good as it gets.

One other thing Y-people might not like: this SHOULD NOT have a revenue model, I think. Freemium completely screws you and ads on a reputation site would just feel wrong. Besides, it's a platform.

That's why I keep thinking about open-sourcing what I have, especially in order to try to solve the distribution problem before an alpha site might go online. Being a hopeless idealist I really want to see a service-decoupled reputation service that is NOT facebook/google FC.

Please let me know if any of you'd be interested to join me in playing around with this.

Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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Post by pudo »

tptacek wrote: post #19
tptacek wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How many Reddit points will a Hacker News point be worth?

Wait, I'm an idiot; of course you run a market to solve this.

This is smart but I'm not sure what the fundamental transaction on such a market is. Keep in mind that there is no rivalry for karma (in an economic sense) and that people always keep their karma after giving to others (or possibly even increase it).

Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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Post by fizx »

Timothee wrote: post #26

Something that produces iPhone code out of Flex/Flash code and vice-versa? That sounds impossible (I don't know either one) but if it were, it could be cash cow, no?

I'd extend processing. There's already ports for java, javascript, flash, iphone.
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