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Offer HN: Let Me Give You Ideas For Your Business
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- d0m 13y agoInspired by twitter and snapchat: You call a friend over the phone but, here's the twist, it will hang up automatically after 15 secs. Better make it quick. Value proposition: - Nobody has time for calls that last more than 15 secs nowadays - You're more likely to pickup the line if you know it's 15 secs instead of letting go on the voicemail. - If it's someone you don't like, it will only be 15 secs Pricing Model: - Waiting to receive a $3B offer, turning it out, accepting a $12B one for Christmas. Audience: - Everyone who used a phone and is ready for the phone experience 2.0. Yes, I'm kidding!
- Lost_BiomedE 13y agoI actually would like this if the caller put in an 'offer' of the amount of time (not mandatory 15s, or hangup...just a guestimate). But, I probably only use/like this if it was available without a separate app.
- mattlutze 13y agoEven though you're kidding... 1. 30 seconds would give you enough time for a bit of back and forth, while still being refreshingly brief. 1.1 Or, make it just under a minute, as you'd otherwise be throwing away the fraction of the minute not used. 2. Block the caller from calling again for x minutes, set by the receiver.
- theseoafs 13y agoI like 30 seconds. Call the service SmallTalk. If you get sufficiently popular, you could advertise on Who Wants to be a Millionaire. "You've chosen to use your 'phone a friend' lifeline. Remember, you only have 30 seconds. We'll have the guys from SmallTalk connect you to your mother."
- danoprey 13y agoYou managed to make that awful idea actually sound pretty good. Well done!
- mattlutze 13y agoCould also partner with providers on data/sms/'SmallTalk' plans. I'd love to be able to get a hold of call connection data and see what the average cost-per-minute of a call is. I'm sure there's a lot of calls where it runs 1 min 10 sec. or so, and that 50 seconds is wasted but still charged (as it's per-minute). It would be interesting to try to get the partner provider to value a 'SmallTalk' call around what the actual profit for a call is (vs. published rates), for a little more transparency (and cost control) to the pay as you go market it would make sense in.
- rfnslyr 13y agoI would honestly use this. Knowing there's a time limit I'd definitely pick it up/dial. This coming from a person that avoids phone calls like the plague. I hate anything that lasts more than 15 seconds to be honest.
- surreal 13y ago> I hate anything that lasts more than 15 seconds to be honest. Wish my girlfriend took the same view
- rfnslyr 13y agoWish I had a girlfriend.
- kika 13y agoSo it turns out that SmallTalk is a dating service.
- rfnslyr 13y agoMan I hate dating services. All it does is get you laid and that's it, for the most part. It's such a confidence crusher after going on an amazing date and they just don't text you back, and then you're left in this abyss wondering whats wrong with you. It also sets the women at a stupid advantage. I'm a guy, making >100k at 20 years old, with loads of interests, friends, great job, great life. I have to pander to women that have none of that. I recently went on a date with a girl whos 25, all she does is game, no job, no school, nothing in her head, literally the most boring person on the planet, and just because she's really attractive and gets lots of messages on dating sites it gives her the illusion that she's superior. It's less of a date and more of an interview or a "prove yourself" thing. It promotes the attractive, and leaves the unattractive absolutely hopeless because if you have the best of the best at your finger tips, why the fuck would you settle for less? I'll stick to real life where genuine connections can still be made.
- mchaver 13y agoSpeed video conferencing One minute video conferences will reduce time waste and let you focus on your work!
- rfnslyr 13y agoTimer + any existing service = new niche of services!
- krashidov 13y agoI have a relevant anecdote. Back when I visited my home country they had this very bizarre mobile plan where the first 10 seconds of all cell phone calls were free. So what you would see is people hanging up after 10 seconds, recalling the person they were speaking to, continuing the conversation , and then doing it all over again. It was hilarious. It got even crazier when some companies reduced the time limit to 5 seconds.
- woah 13y agoSo many ideas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BjrHpZwRFo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BjrHpZwRFo
- psuter 13y agoAlso http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr3EYyOVg88 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr3EYyOVg88
- kordless 13y agoFrom Pipedrive's HTML: 01010111011001010010011101110010011001010010000001 10100001101001011100100110100101101110011001110010 11100010000001101000011101000111010001110000001110 10001011110010111101100010011010010111010000101110 01101100011110010010111100110001011001100100100000 110101010011010100111101001111 I'd suggest making it harder than Googling 'binary to ASCII conversion'! :) Edit: text overflow.
- Basilius 13y agoFoodSnap You take a photo of everything you eat. The app organizes the photos by day. The daily digest view shows you everything you ate for that day. This could be used for dieting (perhaps looking at everything you ate that day before going to sleep helps you realize how much you actually ate, as opposed to not thinking about it when you're munching bite by bite). This could be used for personal discovery (probably everything you eat has an effect. You can start to become more vigilant of your food patterns by keeping a visual journal). This could be used for medical purposes (need to monitor what you're eating, etc). Anyhow, probably v1 is very simple. Version A might involve image detections. Version B might just get some mechanical turks to identify what you ate to make the visual data textual. Version C might let you make quick notes after you take the photo. Brainstorm to where the app is something people pay to download or use. [edited typos]
- gms7777 13y agoIt looks like a few people have had this same idea: MealLogger: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wellnessfoundry.meallogger.android&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wellnessfo... https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meallogger-photo-food-journal/id340837652 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meallogger-photo-food-journa... Odish: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.odish.app&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.odish.app&... I don't know much about those apps though, so I don't know if they're actually any good.
- jaredsohn 13y agoThere is even an app (MealSnap: http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/05/too-lazy-to-count-calories-now-you-can-just-take-a-picture-of-your-meal/# http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/05/too-lazy-to-count-calories-...) that goes a step further and returns back calorie estimates from a photo. (But I haven't personally used it so I can't say how good that one is either.)
- jlees 13y agoIt's not very good. I had that idea around the same time, tried to use MealSnap, gave up and decided the problem was on the wrong side of the difficult/interesting balance for me. After looking at the photos I took for ~a week, I felt that as a human I'd be wildly inaccurate with the calorie counts, so how on earth could a machine be better? (Though, I was eating in a company cafeteria. Combining photos with geolocation for popular restaurants could be a good start to a more reliable, if sparse, approach.)
- JVIDEL 13y agoFlashprint: we print whatever you want and send it to you on an airtight envelope. Once it's exposed to air you have 10 until it becomes a blank page. I want 20 billion, cash no stock.
- bernatfp 13y agoJust make a Snapchat clone that lets you send pictures from your photo gallery, I REALLY NEED IT. I don't have many relevant pics to make and send via Snapchat but I do have lots of stupid pictures that I want to forward to my friends.
- icpmacdo 13y agoMind if I build this?
- bernatfp 13y agoNo problem, I will be waiting for my compensation when you get hella rich ;-)
- michaelfdeberry 13y agoI have built that, or at least something similar, and no one uses it :(
- jnbiche 13y agoWell? Put your link up, man! I suspect your problem (like my own, alas) may be an aversion to self-advertising.
- michaelfdeberry 13y agoYeah, that's exactly what it is. I have even more so of an aversion if I am not that active in the community.
- myronbolitar 13y agoOP here - I'm going to respond to everyone who drops me an email at adam [at] ypprojects.com or comments in here. If you comment in here, though, please leave your email address.
- wikwocket 13y agoJust wanted to post that if you enjoy giving feedback and suggestions, you could register at criticue.com. You give feedback to webpages/apps and get credits for reviews of your own stuff. I have gotten decent feedback for my sites there, although mostly I just like opining on others' work!
- measure2xcut1x 13y agoSnapco: A free saas + iaas cloud platform that provides all the plumbing and infrastructure necessary to launch your startup in 90 days ...or else. If your startup doesn't achieve exit or real revenue target within 90 days, you forfeit ownership to Snapco. Else, Snapco takes a percent of exit proceeds and ongoing revenue. </kidding>
- scrozier 13y agoI'm an entrepreneur and my circle of colleagues includes other entrepreneurs, designers, developers, marketers, etc. We generate 3 ideas per second about my business. I'll pay you $5 to not give me three ideas about my business.
- christiangenco 13y agoAlright, hear me out on this one: SnapchatSnapchat. Our company will make you a Snapchat clone (put it on the app store, advertise it, the full 9 yards), but after 30 days it just disappears. I need an idea for the revenue model.
- fish2000 13y agoUse the same business plan as everybody else these days – give the product away for free and sell the customer data up the river
- namenotrequired 13y agoI need an idea for the revenue model. Just tell your investors that you had a business plan written out, but you saved it in SnapBox...
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- davidsmith8900 13y ago- Thanks for sharing