Ask: What would you do/make if you never had to monetize it? • Hacker News Board

mixmax wrote: post #26

sabat wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All the more reason for someone else to work on it, and do it right.

i wouldn't worry about Microsoft actually developing something new and useful. Unless Apple did it first of course.

Bah, stop pandering to the Microsoft haters.

Re: Ask: What would you do/make if you never had to monetize it?

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Post by strey » Fri, Mar 21, 2008, 11:27 PM UTC

andr wrote: post #12

Xichekolas wrote: post #8

An alternative to hierarchical file systems.

Microsoft is already working on that. ;)

Windows has had the ability to categorize files for awhile. If you look in a file's properties, you can add custom properties to any file. I don't know if there is a way to use these properties in the file system, though.

Re: Ask: What would you do/make if you never had to monetize it?

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Post by strey » Fri, Mar 21, 2008, 11:29 PM UTC

nostrademons wrote: post #7

A programming language. And possibly a peer-to-peer filesharing network using it.

What is the purpose in combining the two? A way of creating a distributed system like Inferno? Or because you happen to like both ideas?

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Post by ulvund » Fri, Mar 21, 2008, 11:30 PM UTC

ambition wrote: post #33

A bittorrent plugin for firefox with no UI. e.g. downloading a torrent has the exact same interaction as downloading a file over HTTP. Seeding == leaving it in your downloads list, advanced power user preferences are tucked in an about: page. Bittorrent for the masses.

Opera already has that as the default way of handling torrents

Re: Ask: What would you do/make if you never had to monetize it?

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Post by strey » Fri, Mar 21, 2008, 11:39 PM UTC

An absolutely huge fort/jungle gym built over a enormous pool and trampoline. Also a really wide, long, steep water slide with ramps.

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Post by strey » Fri, Mar 21, 2008, 11:40 PM UTC

iamwil wrote: post #55

A way to tell where my friends are, and direct them as to where to go and what to do. Kinda like remote control your friends when you're stuck at the office, or if you were the only one that didn't get to go on the vacation. A "keyboard" that changes is form and texture to be different interfaces.

Friends: The RTS

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Post by giles_bowkett » Fri, Mar 21, 2008, 11:45 PM UTC

guys, you need to just build this shit, and then figure out a way to monetize it. finding out what people pay for and then building it is doing it backwards. I mean you have to do it when you have to, but start with this page and build what you want, then find a way to sell it, that's how to do it.