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Someone take this idea and apply: iPad Software that mums can use to do some elementary diagnoses on the various illnesses that their children can get, get to t
by maxklein 17y ago
Someone take this idea and apply: iPad Software that mums can use to do some elementary diagnoses on the various illnesses that their children can get, get to talk to other people about it and recommend doctors/medicines.
Or how about this: iPad software that contains the instruction manuals for like every electronic device ever (TVs etc).
Or the simplest, yet best of all: iPad software that, after you weigh yourself, you tap once on it to say how much you weigh. Over the course of the day, it tells you when to stop eating to reduce weight. After a meal, you tap what you just ate (chicken wings) and it adds to your calories.
If I were applying for YC I'd go for that 3rd one. Feel free to use these ideas, I'm not going to make them myself.
- jasonlbaptiste 17y agoi like the second one the best. I'm pretty certain that most of the manuals are out there in PDF format already. Organizing / finding them all would be a bit of work, but it's doable.
- maxklein 17y agoI'm sure mturk would take only a few days, even for 20.000 devices.
- e1ven 17y agoThere's a bit of a copyright problem, there- You can't just scan in documents and offer them out as PDF, hoping for the best. The way early-stage companies sometimes get around this is to allow user-uploads, and then close their eyes and humm to avoid knowing what's in them. See: Youtube, Scribd.
- maxklein 17y agoBut why would companies care about their manuals being in users hands? Imagine the app launches first, then starts negotiating with the companies - I doubt that one would get sued.
- jasonlbaptiste 17y agoCopyright isn't an issue here. Honest truth, you could directly link to the manuals.
- maxklein 17y agoOr a link to your website that redirects to the manual. So if the manual is moved, your app does not break.
- jasonlbaptiste 17y agoI was thinking mturk. setup a job for major manufacturers and let it run. need to make sure there's no overlap.
- kirubakaran 17y agoWhy can't these be webapps? Are there any advantages in making these as native iPad apps?
- maxklein 17y agoBecause a website is inconvenient and user unfriendly compared to a native app on the iPhone or iPad.
- cj 17y agoNot everyone lives at their computer. It's more convienent to tap in what you eat at the kitchen table with the iPad rather than walk to a computer.
- icey 17y agoHTML 5 is supported on the iPad, you can install an application that looks pretty native (including local storage) that doesn't have to go through the crazy Apple approval process. Neven Mrgan made a game in HTML5 that illustrates how well this works: http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/257187093/pie-guy http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/257187093/pie-guy
- tomjen2 17y agoThat was my assumption too. But the HTML5 that runs on the IPods/IPhones and properly also the iPads are really, really powerful. Powerful enough that they can run as stand-alone programs with local storage (in the form of an sql-lite database), web sockets, etc. You could easily have a local app that was also a webapp.
- Timothee 17y agoAs far as the third one is concerned, there are many apps that do that already for the iPhone. E.g. Lose it! (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lose-it/id297368629?mt=8 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lose-it/id297368629?mt=8) which comes with a big database of food with nutritional info, preprocessed meal from brand names… It's well done, but it gets pretty cumbersome to enter what you ate.