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Tell HN: Your great ideas that you won't pursue
I have great ideas for websites, apps, and products all the time but I am not that passionate about many of them. Since you're not going to pursue them, you might as well get it into the open and see if anyone else wants to bring it to life.
Note: I am not currently interested in taking up another side project so there's no alterior motive here.
- benologist 11y agoWrite APIs for app store management and publishing so you can monitor and test performance of different assets and text, schedule different assets/text/prices, upload builds straight from dropbox, revert to previous builds easily, manage reviews etc, all within a nicer dashboard than app/game stores seem capable of producing.
- tedmiston 11y agoDo Apple/Google have a built-in way to A/B test images and text today?
- benologist 11y agoOnly Google does to my knowledge, they added it quite recently: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/6227309?hl=en https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
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- craftkiller 11y agoI'd like to see x2go upgraded with a mosh-like connection. I haven't looked too far into it but if QUIC isn't tied to http and can just function as a byte stream it could work.
- yitchelle 11y agoTake a photo of a road sign, document, newspaper and it translates to a language of your choice, on the photo. Like Google Translate on steriods.
- rebelidealist 11y agoCrowd translating the web is another interesting project.
- jaredsohn 11y agoAny different than https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2OfQdYrHRs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2OfQdYrHRs?
- icefox 11y agoTextFind: Take a photo of some blob of text and its sole feature would be to give you a real life search. OCR behind the scene + grep with a nice little app GUI. 6 months later sell out to Apple || Google || Samsung for a decent amount and have it integrated into the base camera app.
- Casseres 11y agoCheck out: Word Lens It translates in real time using your device's camera (at least on Android).
- yungGeez 11y agoSnapchat on Windows Phone (lol) Real-Life Megaman Battle Network
- delfuturo 11y agoA social network that helps you connect and share with the people in your life.
- vineetch 11y agoLike a book of those people's faces? I like it.
- tedmiston 11y ago"SpoonRocket for pizza" -- Can we deliver a pizza in 10-15 min instead of 1-2 hours? [By operating a vehicle that cooks them in the truck and circles the block, college district, etc.] I won a hackathon with this concept and began to pursue it as a startup a year ago. The market is big, and people love comfort foods. Also, today's food delivery startups mostly focus on healthy options. We did customer validation in Cincinnati, OH, and people seemed very interested, but we don't have the population density spots to run it here. I also don't think it'd work in New York (too many fast $1 pizza joints), or Chicago (people mostly want high quality and are willing to wait). We think it has a lot of potential in the bay, where SpoonRocket, Caviar, Sprig, etc. have paved the way. Side note: Domino's unveiled their own cars of a similar concept in October. http://fortune.com/2015/10/22/dominos-pizza-car/ http://fortune.com/2015/10/22/dominos-pizza-car/
- HeyLaughingBoy 11y agoIsn't 10-15 min close to the average already? I live 12+ miles from the only pizza place that will deliver out here and it rarely takes more than 30 minutes to get here. I don't remember how long it took in the 'burbs, but it wasn't any longer than that.
- tedmiston 11y agoIn that case, you're lucky. It varies a lot. While there's no extensive data source with that info for every city, we called each pizza place around downtown Cincinnati in the evenings while we worked. We were quoted 30-90 minutes with an average wait of 43-49 minutes and a median wait of 45 minutes. Some of these were even ≤ 10-minute walk from our coworking space. One interesting observation is that chains often beat indie place quoted times by 5 minutes. We also collected more anecdotal non-pizza data from my personal experience in the bay in 2014: I was so excited to try Caviar for the first time... and every restaurant I attempted gave a wait of 60-120 minutes or more until eventually I gave up and just walked to food.
- swanson 11y agoFunny enough, this concept was on the Comedy Central show "Nathan For You" -- pizza delivery guaranteed in 7 minutes or you get a free pizza. The delivery was always late. (The free pizza was a 1" mini pizza and the rest of the order was still full price)
- soared 11y ago1) Deliver espresso shots for $1 in <20 minutes by strapping a small espresso machine to your bike and having people order through text message. I made a website just for kicks, but never actually going to do anything. oneshots.squarespace.com 2) Uber for fixing people's computers/laptops. Plenty of us are good with computers and could easily fix most problems, while 90% of people can't.
- stray 11y ago> Deliver espresso shots for $1 in <20 minutes by strapping a small espresso machine to your bike and having people order through text message. Gennardo? Or is this someone else with the same idea?
- soared 11y agoI thought Gennardo was a company doing it and tried to google it. Realizing now you actually know someone with the same idea haha. But no, I'm not gennardo!
- sarciszewski 11y agoNumber 2 would actually be pretty simple.
- keenanromain 11y agoCodecademy/Duolingo for Music.