A secondary market in sports bets.
See betfair (UK only).
It's not at all UK-only. They accept Europeans, Australians, and Canadians as well (maybe other places too).
Ask HN: What's your best startup idea that you're not going to pursue?
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#92Location based anon social network. I am working on it.
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#93Reading through this I came up with one: Tinder for jobs. Employers can look through a small CV of candidates that they might like, while potential employees can do the same for workplaces. Matches lead to interviews.
I can't really see myself ever doing this though because you'd got a chicken and egg problem, plus it'd probably only ever be used by tech companies unless there was an easy to use API.
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#94Recipes based on the content of your pantry/fridge. The ideal solution would provide a db based on sensors/user input to know what ingredients and amount of those ingredients you have. Additionally, you can hook it into some calorie counter or diet tracking/fitness apps and it will make decisions based off of that. Then you simply specify: "I want to make dinner, what can I cook?" The app links you to the recipe and…
This is fairly common. For example, allrecipes.com: http://allrecipes.com/search/default.aspx?ms=1&origin=Home%2...
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#95An online-only bank (with ATM support of course) that lets you have as many "virtual" accounts as you want, and lets you set up programmatic rules for transferring money in between accounts on certain days/times, or triggered by events ("transfer $100 from B to A if account A goes below $100, and notify me by email"; "on overdraft from A, withdraw from B instead"). Then have a debit card that you can use to charge to…
inb4 bitcoins
Re: Ask HN: What's your best startup idea that you're not going to pursue?
#96Reading through this I came up with one: Tinder for jobs. Employers can look through a small CV of candidates that they might like, while potential employees can do the same for workplaces. Matches lead to interviews. I can't really see myself ever doing this though because you'd got a chicken and egg problem, plus it'd probably only ever be used by tech companies unless there was an easy to use API.
There's the opposite already: http://www.jobrapp.com/
Re: Ask HN: What's your best startup idea that you're not going to pursue?
#97Recipes based on the content of your pantry/fridge. The ideal solution would provide a db based on sensors/user input to know what ingredients and amount of those ingredients you have. Additionally, you can hook it into some calorie counter or diet tracking/fitness apps and it will make decisions based off of that. Then you simply specify: "I want to make dinner, what can I cook?" The app links you to the recipe and…
I've thought of this too and there seem to be a few companies trying something like it. The difficult part seems to be keeping your stock up to date. You'd basically have to update it after every meal.
Maybe a smart refrigerator will figure it out some day or Amazon with their automated service/scanner combo. It certainly could prevent food waste.
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#98GeekFit - an online community of geeks/coders looking to improve from sedentary to athletic.
Might be something here - the design of most fitness apps leaves something to be desired for the geek crowd. The only well done one I've ever found is Stronglifts.
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#99What Dropbox did for storage, but for CPUs. The classic business example would be that you have to to process a large Excel doc and are willing to pay extra to speed it up. With fast internet connections and cheap online storage, it could be opened up to a growing number of tasks like video rendering.
AWS has this for video encoding: http://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder
I asked some commercial video friends about this once and they didn't seem too interested. Their company invested in a private network for their office and a lot of CPU muscle.
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#100Heroku for queue jobs. Pay by the minute.
Basically I hate maintaining an AWS instance that is idle most of the time. And Heroku will only get you so far.
It would probably be difficult to make profits on because you'd be charging slices of a penny at a time...