Regarding the swag idea, I was thinking of a service that would deliver swag to users of a site.
eg. When you become King of Mayor of whatever on foursquare you get an actual shirt type thing, or an iron on badge, etc.
Startup Ideas We'd Be Willing To Pay For
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#62Have you had another idea you’d pay if existed? 1. A device that rings a bell or flashes the lights in any/all rooms of my house if my cell phone is at home and rings. This way I don't have to carry it with me everywhere in the house. 2. A service which lets me know which restaurants have excess capacity and will give me a discount if I come right now. 3. A reasonably priced dependable on-line grocery service that de…
#4: LinkedSenior.com is similar (not quite what you're describing but solving the same problem I think)
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#63B2BRev is working on number 2. http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/12/yc-backed-b2brev-aims-to-be...
Nice shoutout from PG there, and because of that I will probably even check it out, but seriously I hope a name change is in line for them ... it may seem simple but it is NOT memorable and certainly not something that is going to be easy to build a brand around IMHO
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#64Have you had another idea you’d pay if existed? 1. A device that rings a bell or flashes the lights in any/all rooms of my house if my cell phone is at home and rings. This way I don't have to carry it with me everywhere in the house. 2. A service which lets me know which restaurants have excess capacity and will give me a discount if I come right now. 3. A reasonably priced dependable on-line grocery service that de…
As someone with consumer electronics experience and a 94-year-old grandmother, I actually think #4 is brilliant. She will never understand how to maneuver to email on her iPad, and the abstract 'reply' and 'send' symbols we all take for granted are hieroglyphics to her. There's definitely a market for an always on, single screen email device a toddler could use. Perhaps the stylus isn't dead yet! I don't know the fir…
http://www.zoodles.com/ is designed for kids, but I think it could be converted or re-imagined for senior use. The video mail system is pretty slick. I bet my kid will have it figured out before he turns 3.
Key features for such an e-mail system:
- simple addressing. In this case, just click on the picture for who you want to mail.
- a big fat "I'm done, send this!" button.
- email whitelist. No spam, no scams, just people you personally know.
- new messages should either be read automatically, or you should get some sort of overlay every time you go into the app that says "you have new messages from [people]! [BIG read now button] [smaller wait until later button]" This way, grandma will always see her new messages.
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#65Have you had another idea you’d pay if existed? 1. A device that rings a bell or flashes the lights in any/all rooms of my house if my cell phone is at home and rings. This way I don't have to carry it with me everywhere in the house. 2. A service which lets me know which restaurants have excess capacity and will give me a discount if I come right now. 3. A reasonably priced dependable on-line grocery service that de…
Concering #6: I worked on ReactOS, for some time, a long time ago. But they still have a long way to go. On the other hand, they also come a long way.
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#66Hey guys, great post. I just wanted to let you know that you should add left padding to your post content. The text runs right at the edge of my screen on my phone.
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#67Have you had another idea you’d pay if existed? 1. A device that rings a bell or flashes the lights in any/all rooms of my house if my cell phone is at home and rings. This way I don't have to carry it with me everywhere in the house. 2. A service which lets me know which restaurants have excess capacity and will give me a discount if I come right now. 3. A reasonably priced dependable on-line grocery service that de…
Great ideas, Ed. Way to bring the thinky.
Though I have to ask...why haven't you made any of these things? Your #1, #4, and #5 seem like weekend projects. I can think out the basis of the technical solutions for all of them while just sitting here. Granted, there are much better ways to spend a weekend. But hooking up my cell phone to the house lights sounds like it might be kind of fun.
In general, why don't more hackers make stuff like this? It seems like coming up with the long list of ideas is the hard part. Is it that putting the things together is just too much work?
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#68Have you had another idea you’d pay if existed? 1. A device that rings a bell or flashes the lights in any/all rooms of my house if my cell phone is at home and rings. This way I don't have to carry it with me everywhere in the house. 2. A service which lets me know which restaurants have excess capacity and will give me a discount if I come right now. 3. A reasonably priced dependable on-line grocery service that de…
#1: There are a few devices out there that work like a Bluetooth headset merged with a cordless home phone. Here's one example: http://www.sigelectronics.com/SIG/Panasonic-KXTG7622-Link-to...
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#691. Software that shows videos of real visitors using our website http://www.clicktale.com/ 3. A wrapper around PayPal Why put lipstick on a pig? I'd rather use Stripe (not as full featured yet, but getting there) 4. An iPhone code editor with Github / Heroku integration Github lets you edit and commit tiny changes right from the site. 5. Zerocater for startup swag Lots have tried; nobody wants to pay for swag it seem…
We are working on this at StartupThreads.com. Companies are always buying swag, so the opportunity is to provide the added services that a startup would want. Some people do pay for Startup merch (startupschwag.com had many subscribers when it shut down), its just not a huge market. If you have any specific needs/thoughts would love to hear it.
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#70Regarding the swag idea, I was thinking of a service that would deliver swag to users of a site. eg. When you become King of Mayor of whatever on foursquare you get an actual shirt type thing, or an iron on badge, etc.
I like this. We hadn't thought of this for StartupThreads but at the core, startups can use merch as an agent of appreciation for the loyalty and support of their users. Finding creative ways to express this will help them retain some of these power users.