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No. I just like ideas. I have my own ideas, I just think it would be cool to get a list of ideas that people have but know they won't be able to work on. To pro
by deltapoint 19y ago
No. I just like ideas. I have my own ideas, I just think it would be cool to get a list of ideas that people have but know they won't be able to work on. To prove this I'll start by listing some of my own. PG says one point of this site is to make you look like a desirable candidate for a start up so if you can list some good ideas or critique others it makes you look good. Ideas alone have very little intrinsic value on their own. The best ones are ones that can make things just not suck.
1. An online radio site that lets you select station by what mood you want to feel.
2. A website like 43things but with a timeline for each goals that tries to hold you accountable for them through social pressure.
3. An online video website that are like demo conferences where people can share their ideas.
4. A social network (or app) where users could do market research and product development for companies and get paid for their work and ideas and it would turn it into a competition.
- jpalacio486 19y agoI was just bustin your balls. Can you elaborate on your 43things-like idea?
- deltapoint 19y agoread this http://paulgraham.com/die.html http://paulgraham.com/die.html Paul Graham argues the fear of looking bad is what motivates people. Based off of that concept I thought of the idea of a social network kind of like 43things with the major differences being: - you can set a timeline of when you want to accomplish the goals -people could rate the difficulty of the goals and you have a reputation based on how many goals you complete and the difficulty of them - could be public or private -could be more individualized, ie finish essay for English before Friday
- jpalacio486 19y agoI have to say i like the idea. Have you applied to YC?
- deltapoint 19y agoNo, I don't have a team of hackers and I am just now learning to "hack" myself. If someone wants to collaborate email me at abiek13 (at) aol (dot) com
- rms 19y agoEasy to use operating system for older computer users.
- falsestprophet 19y agoAn easy to use operating system for computer users in general would be nice.
- rms 19y agoAgreed, an easier to use operating system would be great for most power-users too. I'd start by eliminating the desktop and completely abstracting away the file system, instead letting you browse all of your media files at once, all of your documents, etc. I'd do it with a dynamic start page that would let you accomplish everything from within Ubuntu/Firefox in kiosk mode. The design's the hard part, but I have the beginnings of a workable design.
- mpc 19y agoIt's called OSX. What could be better than a powerful unix machine with a beautiful and intuitive GUI? And also "just works" out of the box.
- rms 19y agoSit your grandfather (or person of similar age) in front of OSX by himself after only an hour of instructions and see what happens. It's intuitive to those of us who grew up with computing. To everyone else, it isn't.
- joe 19y agoRe: #1 http://www.musicovery.com/ http://www.musicovery.com/
- yters 19y agoAs #4 lite, it'd be cool to have a subreddit here for people to submit ideas. Then all us slackers can feel useful, and maybe make some money.
- Tichy 19y agoI think Cambrian House and others do that.
- yters 19y agoThat's pretty cool. Do you know whether it's been effective?
- Tichy 19y agoI only just started using it. It is definitely an interesting community. There are other projects like it, but CambrianHouse seems the nicest from what I have remember. It seems if nobody else cares to comment on your ideas, they might even throw in their own employees to do so.