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Ideas I would like to build / see built

36 points by daleharvey 17y ago

edkennedy 17y ago
Re: Calender Web Service. How about Tungle? http://www.tungle.com http://www.tungle.com Allows other to schedule with you with no signups. It also works with many calendar apps.
leif 17y ago
calender => calendar Attention to detail, buddy.
- daleharvey 17y ago
  heh cheers, I had even ran it through after the deadline but still managed to miss it, fixed
SlyShy 17y ago
Not to hate, but these are vague ideas overall. Those are the kind that are a dime a dozen. ;)
- daleharvey 17y ago
  They are pretty vague so far, I just wanted to jot down general ideas that I keep having and forgetting over time, thought itd be handy if they were online for others to try as well. It will be updated and refined pretty regularly.
- bootload 17y ago
  "... but these are vague ideas overall. Those are the kind that are a dime a dozen. ;) ..." Vague & dime a dozen maybe, but don't discount them all without trying or thinking about some. For example: Having a "timed-task" function could be applied to solve a lot of time wasting in many areas.
adrianwaj 17y ago
What about a social network especially for people who haven't owned Apple (stock, hw and sw) and never will?
smokinn 17y ago
For the first idea, have you checked out tinychat? http://tinychat.com/ http://tinychat.com/
- daleharvey 17y ago
  tinychat seems to let you host your own chatroom, whereas I was looking for a chat client that can connect to irc / xmpp (and possibly msn / facebook), somewhat more like meebo
  - mike-cardwell 17y ago
    You could take http://cgiirc.org/ http://cgiirc.org/ and point it at a http://bitlbee.org/ http://bitlbee.org/ server.
mkramlich 17y ago
I'd like to see also: a web browser, an OS, a "spreadsheet" (term I've coined, I'll explain in a follow-up post), also some sort of FPS, also some sort of markup format that's like HTML but not presentation-specific...also, I'd like a language like C but with classes. And, a pony. Thank you.
- cperciva 17y ago
  I'd like a language like C but with classes C already has classes. They're called structs. And methods are called function pointers.
  - mkramlich 17y ago
    Disagree C has classes. No "class" and no inheritance or polymorphism. C++ and Objective-C have these things. But I understand what you're saying. There is the very well-known structs+functions technique which gives a partial stand-in for full OO. My post was meant to be funny yet true. I read the OA and thought all of the ideas he listed already exist, and was surprised it made the front page on Hacker News. Then I thought to myself, "Oh, it must be because it's a joke, the OA was trying to be funny." Perhaps I was mistaken.
    - cperciva 17y ago
      Disagree C has classes. No "class" and no inheritance or polymorphism C has perfectly good inheritance: struct child { struct parent p; // new variables go here } struct child foo; struct parent * bar = &foo; // perfectly valid C
      - mkramlich 17y ago
        Looks like composition and a struct alias, not inheritance to me. Is my C that rusty? For example, say that the "struct parent" type (which in your example has no members) had a member named z. In your example, I expect to be allowed to do something like this: (*bar).p.z which is composition. But not: (*bar).z which would be member inheritance. Because bar/foo/child all lack a z member. Only "parent" has a z member. Am I wrong?
henning 17y ago
Most or all of these already exist in some form. E.g., Campfire, ikiwiki, etc.
srogers 17y ago
On a related note, there's a new sub-reddit called SomebodyMakeThis. (a sub-reddit being a user created subsection of the link aggregator Reddit) http://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/ http://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/
jonah 17y ago
WYSIWYG HTML Editor == Dreamweaver
- mkramlich 17y ago
  Or the old fashioned alternative: browser & editor side-by-side on your screen. Browser rendering the same HTML file that is loaded in your editor. Edit. Save. Hit refresh in browser. Optionally: add a simple, development-class web server (like web.py). Bingo, done. I guess I feel like the "editor" and "render" parts of the problem are already solved. I'm not sure that we gain more than we lose by trying to smash them together into one gob. For debugging/tweaking an existing web app, sure (then use something like Firebug), but for general development from scratch there are a lot of benefits to using a real browser and real editor.
- daleharvey 17y ago
  To be fair it has been a long long time since I have used dreamweaver. But I have a sneaking suspicion that it wont have improved a whole lot (as the rest of the CS Suite havent either). It used to generate terrible html, and in the case when you wrote your own html it munged it badly, its css and javascript editing were mediocre, I remember it not even handling css definitions properly. even a live preview window in emacs would cover quite a lot of what I want, remember project to embed firefox into emacs a while ago, probably time to go search it out.
- kalid 17y ago
  Seamonkey is a good wysiwyg editor. You can visit any page, save it, and do edit HTML. It's not excellent but is better than raw text editing for ux mockup ideas.
barmstrong 17y ago
I love the idea of a game which limits the time you can spend playing it. You might have something big with that one.
chime 17y ago
> Canvas/WebGL/JavaScript Game I made a bunch of small JS games/puzzles using Processing.js (which uses Canvas/VML). The exact rules are slightly cryptic by design. I definitely loved making them and intend to make a bunch more this year: http://chir.ag/projects/prc/?nored http://chir.ag/projects/prc/?nored http://chir.ag/projects/prc/?gold http://chir.ag/projects/prc/?gold http://chir.ag/projects/prc/?piggy http://chir.ag/projects/prc/?piggy http://chir.ag/projects/prc/?vanish http://chir.ag/projects/prc/?vanish I hope you enjoy them.
- daleharvey 17y ago
  those are brilliant, exactly what I was talking about, thanks for sharing
Dysiode 17y ago
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Google Talk. For a while I suffered through the tangled mess that was using jabber transports to connect to other protocols because it was so minimalistic and slick. I'd love to see Pidgin or Psi reimagine Google Talk's UI while keeping the extensibility of the backend. Also, you might be interested in a free game by the name of Skyrates (http://www.skyrates.net http://www.skyrates.net). It's not really an MMO, but it was made for people with not much free-time in mind so it doesn't favor people sinking a lot of time into it.
arachnid 17y ago
My latest addiction isn't an MMO, but otherwise fits your description pretty well: http://np.ironhelmet.com/ http://np.ironhelmet.com/

36 points by daleharvey 17y ago

Re: Calender Web Service. How about Tungle? http://www.tungle.com http://www.tungle.com Allows other to schedule with you with no signups. It also works with many calendar apps.

leif 17y ago

calender => calendar Attention to detail, buddy.

daleharvey 17y ago
heh cheers, I had even ran it through after the deadline but still managed to miss it, fixed

SlyShy 17y ago

Not to hate, but these are vague ideas overall. Those are the kind that are a dime a dozen. ;)

daleharvey 17y ago
They are pretty vague so far, I just wanted to jot down general ideas that I keep having and forgetting over time, thought itd be handy if they were online for others to try as well. It will be updated and refined pretty regularly.
bootload 17y ago
"... but these are vague ideas overall. Those are the kind that are a dime a dozen. ;) ..." Vague & dime a dozen maybe, but don't discount them all without trying or thinking about some. For example: Having a "timed-task" function could be applied to solve a lot of time wasting in many areas.

adrianwaj 17y ago

What about a social network especially for people who haven't owned Apple (stock, hw and sw) and never will?

smokinn 17y ago

For the first idea, have you checked out tinychat? http://tinychat.com/ http://tinychat.com/

daleharvey 17y ago
tinychat seems to let you host your own chatroom, whereas I was looking for a chat client that can connect to irc / xmpp (and possibly msn / facebook), somewhat more like meebo
- mike-cardwell 17y ago
  You could take http://cgiirc.org/ http://cgiirc.org/ and point it at a http://bitlbee.org/ http://bitlbee.org/ server.

mkramlich 17y ago

I'd like to see also: a web browser, an OS, a "spreadsheet" (term I've coined, I'll explain in a follow-up post), also some sort of FPS, also some sort of markup format that's like HTML but not presentation-specific...also, I'd like a language like C but with classes. And, a pony. Thank you.

cperciva 17y ago
I'd like a language like C but with classes C already has classes. They're called structs. And methods are called function pointers.
- mkramlich 17y ago
  Disagree C has classes. No "class" and no inheritance or polymorphism. C++ and Objective-C have these things. But I understand what you're saying. There is the very well-known structs+functions technique which gives a partial stand-in for full OO. My post was meant to be funny yet true. I read the OA and thought all of the ideas he listed already exist, and was surprised it made the front page on Hacker News. Then I thought to myself, "Oh, it must be because it's a joke, the OA was trying to be funny." Perhaps I was mistaken.
  - cperciva 17y ago
    Disagree C has classes. No "class" and no inheritance or polymorphism C has perfectly good inheritance: struct child { struct parent p; // new variables go here } struct child foo; struct parent * bar = &foo; // perfectly valid C
    - mkramlich 17y ago
      Looks like composition and a struct alias, not inheritance to me. Is my C that rusty? For example, say that the "struct parent" type (which in your example has no members) had a member named z. In your example, I expect to be allowed to do something like this: (*bar).p.z which is composition. But not: (*bar).z which would be member inheritance. Because bar/foo/child all lack a z member. Only "parent" has a z member. Am I wrong?

henning 17y ago

Most or all of these already exist in some form. E.g., Campfire, ikiwiki, etc.

srogers 17y ago

On a related note, there's a new sub-reddit called SomebodyMakeThis. (a sub-reddit being a user created subsection of the link aggregator Reddit) http://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/ http://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/

jonah 17y ago

WYSIWYG HTML Editor == Dreamweaver

mkramlich 17y ago
Or the old fashioned alternative: browser & editor side-by-side on your screen. Browser rendering the same HTML file that is loaded in your editor. Edit. Save. Hit refresh in browser. Optionally: add a simple, development-class web server (like web.py). Bingo, done. I guess I feel like the "editor" and "render" parts of the problem are already solved. I'm not sure that we gain more than we lose by trying to smash them together into one gob. For debugging/tweaking an existing web app, sure (then use something like Firebug), but for general development from scratch there are a lot of benefits to using a real browser and real editor.
daleharvey 17y ago
To be fair it has been a long long time since I have used dreamweaver. But I have a sneaking suspicion that it wont have improved a whole lot (as the rest of the CS Suite havent either). It used to generate terrible html, and in the case when you wrote your own html it munged it badly, its css and javascript editing were mediocre, I remember it not even handling css definitions properly. even a live preview window in emacs would cover quite a lot of what I want, remember project to embed firefox into emacs a while ago, probably time to go search it out.
kalid 17y ago
Seamonkey is a good wysiwyg editor. You can visit any page, save it, and do edit HTML. It's not excellent but is better than raw text editing for ux mockup ideas.

barmstrong 17y ago

I love the idea of a game which limits the time you can spend playing it. You might have something big with that one.

chime 17y ago

> Canvas/WebGL/JavaScript Game I made a bunch of small JS games/puzzles using Processing.js (which uses Canvas/VML). The exact rules are slightly cryptic by design. I definitely loved making them and intend to make a bunch more this year: http://chir.ag/projects/prc/?nored http://chir.ag/projects/prc/?nored http://chir.ag/projects/prc/?gold http://chir.ag/projects/prc/?gold http://chir.ag/projects/prc/?piggy http://chir.ag/projects/prc/?piggy http://chir.ag/projects/prc/?vanish http://chir.ag/projects/prc/?vanish I hope you enjoy them.

daleharvey 17y ago
those are brilliant, exactly what I was talking about, thanks for sharing

Dysiode 17y ago

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Google Talk. For a while I suffered through the tangled mess that was using jabber transports to connect to other protocols because it was so minimalistic and slick. I'd love to see Pidgin or Psi reimagine Google Talk's UI while keeping the extensibility of the backend. Also, you might be interested in a free game by the name of Skyrates (http://www.skyrates.net http://www.skyrates.net). It's not really an MMO, but it was made for people with not much free-time in mind so it doesn't favor people sinking a lot of time into it.

arachnid 17y ago

My latest addiction isn't an MMO, but otherwise fits your description pretty well: http://np.ironhelmet.com/ http://np.ironhelmet.com/