An insurance plan for APIs - in today's world companies are extremely reliant on 3rd party APIs for a variety of applications (FB Ads API, Twitter's API, etc.), however, in my experience, these APIs are not a 100% reliable & can sometimes go down which impacts the end customer/user. Similar to travel insurance, if you can provide the option as an add-on to buy insurance against this downtime - there are several business models - but essentially you would be offering a modern day "SLA".
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#62A paying Wine (winehq.org) that would work with demanding multimedia programs such as Adobe LightRoom or Sony Vegas. I would pay something like $100/year for such software that would keep up with every new version of its supported programs.
Why? Isn't it easier and cheaper to run a VM?
It's not easier by a long shot; for multimedia programs that deal with large files it's always complex to set up "shared folders" or whatever they're called; and you run a whole emulated machine just for one program.
Wine is fantastic but too limited at the moment.
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#63A laptop with a slide-out second (or third) screen for more screen space. Packaging and power consumption are big issues. Maybe a couple of years off until super thin, flexible OLED displays reach maturity.
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#64Oauth for contact details. When I change my phone number or address, the individuals or corporations I have authenticated should be able to fetch that latest info from a centralized service that manages only that information (and holds it in strictest confidence, no list-selling).
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#65Bring back tactile controls. Now that the smartphone innovation has slowed down a little, why not bring back real buttons, wheels etc.? They should be well-designed, precisely engineered and fun to use. I belive mobile gadget design is now awesome enough to make this work. I wouldn't mind a scrollwheel, or even real radiobuttons (one button goes in, the other pops up). The exact functionality would still depend on th…
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#66A media browser for leveraging (browsing, and surfing) multi-terrabyte home media servers: Problem: I've got 2TB of videos, music, and images on my hard drives, and I've found my available tools to be too low-leverage on managing this anymore. Context: about 2 years ago, I've stopped the directory structure madness, and embraced search as first-order link for media files. As a byproduct of this, I notice I don't have…
The wife approval factor of Windows software is zero. This won't fly in the living room.
I want this on a set top box... And anything like yamj or xbmc absolutely chokes on my collection and I spend hours fixing incorrectly identified files.
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#67Email service for small business: something companies can use in combination with Box.com / Dropbox.com or other cloud storage instead of Google Apps. This is not really idea but more of our need: we started using more Box (and Dropbox) instead of Google Drive but we are stuck with email provided via Google Apps. There is no other service on the market as Google Apps email for small business. (I tried FastMail, Atmai…
Office 365 is a good alternative if you use Windows.
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#68My girlfriend suggests a menstrual calendar app that enables men to predict women's moods, especially the days they're most amenable to amorous solicitation, and generally because it's good for men to know their partners' cycles. A woman might enter the data herself and share it with selected parties, or men could try to maintain their own records on behalf of women who aren't motivated to do it. There is also a mone…
There's numerous mobile phone apps that do this for women. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pink-pad-period-tracker-free... I thought to make one for men for just the reasons you described but it seemed a little too.. unethical.
Especially since women's vocal range is affected by their cycle. I thought to use DSP to help determine their cycle and facilitate pregnancy or help avoid it. It turns out getting the proper audio baseline for the vocal range of women is tough and they'd be saying weird words into their phone daily.
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#69This idea has two components and maybe it already exists. First a social network/virtual gallery for visual artists (designers, photographers, etc) to post their work. Second a browser plugin that 'knows' where ads are placed on popular free sites and overlaps a frame that randomly showcases the artists work (click to see more or click to edit preferences)
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#70A public protocol and a reference implementation of a social network. The problem is stabilized, it's time to do to social networks what SMTP did to email. Open it up to be fully decentralized, where people can host their social hub or use a hosting service, of which there would spring up a multitude. Social networking is nowadays as central to the internet as email, and it is the first such, heavily used, applicatio…
Shameless plug for a research project going on at my school: https://priv.io/ can replace most social networks you can think of in a decentralized, private, encrypted manner.
I'm not personally involved in the project.