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Web crawler that collects comments on social and media websites and lets users analyse and visualise them. It's not very hard to build and provides a great service to businesses releasing PR articles and seeking feedback on them.
Couldn't you use something like Google Alerts, but don't tell your customers that, just show the results in a more prettified and "tailored" way to them. ;-)
Send local goods to foreign subscribers in monthly surprise shipments.
Just a thought to represent how creative one could be and probably still make a viable business: I've also been looking online for various toothpastes I bought in Croatia. They have these nice herbal flavours that make me feel like I brushed my teeth with a Ricola cough candy. Everything in North America is mint or cinnamon, and many of the interesting esoteric flavours are fluoride-free :( edit: removed joke offer o…
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> consider starting a maker space. // I've thought of this many times - mainly cause I'm too poor to buy all the tools I want and even the tools I have I wish it were easier to lend them so they don't die of rust before their otherwise useful hours have been used up ... But, I've always thought that this would need to be a government supported social enterprise, never that it could make enough money to pay for rent+w…
Our college has a "maker space" and it's been a tremendous success, to the point that engineering "recruits" cite it as a reason for choosing the school. Obviously this was school-funded, but my point is that the administration saw a direct value add from it, and continues to pour funding into the program. You may be able to pull data about municipal maker spaces in other cities, and use it to convince your own city…
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Our college has a "maker space" and it's been a tremendous success, to the point that engineering "recruits" cite it as a reason for choosing the school. Obviously this was school-funded, but my point is that the administration saw a direct value add from it, and continues to pour funding into the program. You may be able to pull data about municipal maker spaces in other cities, and use it to convince your own city…
What school was that?
Send local goods to foreign subscribers in monthly surprise shipments.
I've not done it, but I always toyed with the idea of doing a tampon-equivalent of the Dollar Shave Club - i.e. get sanitary products emailed out every month automatically.
Send local goods to foreign subscribers in monthly surprise shipments.
Send local goods to foreign subscribers in monthly surprise shipments.
Out of interest, what would people want shipped from England? As a native I have no idea what people overseas would go for.