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I have to add my idea to the mix. It's called the Pixelator. It's a site where you can upload photos of people and it returns to you the same photo but with all the faces pixelated.
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"Wordpress.com 20 years more advanced, for video blogging" is one of mine. I'd love to hear critiques of it. I realize the "pitch" is bad, but did you read any of the other sections?; I'm trying to convey that it's not just a hosted platform for video blogging, but that there's some technological innovation involved as well.
The problem with video blogging is that it doesn't have the same mass appeal as text blogging. As uncomfortable as people are with their grammatical abilities, they still blog, constantly, no matter how much we hope they wouldn't. As for video blogging, the barrier to entry is a lot higher, and self-consciousness about "public" speaking and appearance severely stifle the potential "market".
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Don't you know that dog walking is a big business?
Some years ago I had an office in an incubator, and me and a guy from another company had a competition on who could come up with the most ridiculous yet somewhat believable pitch. He won with this: Dogwalking is big business - there are more rich people with dogs than you would dare dream of, and they all need to have their dogs walked. On the other end of the leash there are social welfare clients that want more mo…
I know it's a little bit out there, but I think it would be a fun startup to make something like this work.
makes me feel bad for PG and and YC team: reading just those 20 or so responses is painful.
Got my idea up there: Crowd-sourced shipping (Tip: It's row 62) . Not sure I'm the best person to go with this idea, but I would love to see the internet make something like this work. I know it's a little bit out there, but I think it would be a fun startup to make something like this work.
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you could build something very advanced (theme wise) and the back end coding on top of wordpress. If it worked well and I were a videoblogger, id pay for it.
That's not a bad WordPress theme idea. But that's not at all what I'm suggesting, because... That doesn't improve the video player interface at all. That doesn't make metadata for videos any better. That doesn't provide any improvements in the ability to remix video. That doesn't offer any advantages for having multiple video bloggers on the same platform. That doesn't add any interactivity to video. I feel like I'm…
I have seen a couple of times that the idea did not make any 'sense' to me during ideation stage, but when was presented with a working application - I just 'saw' it as needed!
For certain ideas, the way they are executed matters a lot.
You could also expand it in various ways beyond tracking new releases for a single band to make it more of a music discovery service, e.g., (a) tracking side projects started by members of a given band or band "communities" where there are several inter-related artists and bands that appear in various ways in one another's work (like Broken Social Scene, Wu Tang Clan or The Bird and the Bee) (b) tracking other bands/albums/songs etc. that someone had a hand in (e.g., show me new releases that Pharrell Williams produced) and somewhat obviously (c) tracking new releases in a given genre, which could be very fine grained.
im sorry, i love you all, but this list is filled with some really bad stuff. After reading more thoroughly I'm assuming a lot of it is just people messing around Such as: 100% return lottery. pandora for chatroulette. Wordpress.com 20 years more advanced, for video blogging. Public Takeover - Use capitalism to control the ills of capitalism, one share at a time. Use crowdsourcing and social network effects to take o…
"Wordpress.com 20 years more advanced, for video blogging" is one of mine. I'd love to hear critiques of it. I realize the "pitch" is bad, but did you read any of the other sections?; I'm trying to convey that it's not just a hosted platform for video blogging, but that there's some technological innovation involved as well.
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Some years ago I had an office in an incubator, and me and a guy from another company had a competition on who could come up with the most ridiculous yet somewhat believable pitch. He won with this: Dogwalking is big business - there are more rich people with dogs than you would dare dream of, and they all need to have their dogs walked. On the other end of the leash there are social welfare clients that want more mo…
Wait, do social welfare "clients" really get money for dog stuff? Where is that?