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Ask HN: Idea Sunday

55 points by livestyle 12y ago

First week of May edition.

the1 12y ago
- a reality show with gay men and one straight man. - for april fool's day, HN karma arrows are inverted. - frozen food with QR code of recipe (how long to microwave at what level), and microwaves that can read those and automatically cook. - google gives you a badge for searching a term for the first time. - social sharing aspect of cool searches you do. badges and levels. - online search master consultancy that searches you stuff. - Ask HN, Show HN, .. etc get different CSS color, font. - news site where everything is paid. but you can earn their virtual currency by joining, visiting, watching ads... etc. - mongodb-esque json crap db with joins and relationships and graph search. - edge side include for json elements. - can make a voice note on longitude and latitude so when others are around, they can hear the note. - jot melody online or in a mobile app. - jot lyrics. - $1 online service where professional musicians or computers play your jotted melody (10 second max, probably with a good arrangement). melody rendering service. - personal wayback machine. click a bookmarklet, the page is captured and saved for your personal index, search, retrieval. of course you can modify/annotate the retrieved page and possibly republish. - http://www.json-generator.com/ http://www.json-generator.com/ but contents come from crawling actual web content (maybe from google). - gravatar but using short video (gfycat, vine...). - responsive book format (technical books with code listing actually render well on kindle..). - responsive content web site. given where you are, when it is, who you are, what are capabilities of your device... etc provides you different contents. for example, at nights, gives you more adult pics. during work hours, gives you more work-related contents. - dating web site where you publish dates afterwards, including location, time, budget.... tells you who gets the most expensive free meal. who spends the most money... - search engine that only indexes disallowed resources. - "RESTful" api with millions of verbs (not only GET, POST, ...). makes linguistic analysis of the verbs and the requested resources. does some magic. - FedEx store right at security checkpoint. Toothpastes are returned to your home via trustworthy FedEx. - mentorship service / travel mate site where you can find other mentors , entreprenuers to share ideas, pair coding brogrammers... etc on plane. - submarine-spaceship that is actually a sumbarine and then it files all the way into the mars. a travel package that includes underwater, outer space,... etc. - a web page that when requested by google bot, submits itself to google for crawl.
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kr4 12y ago
Already posted [0] and was killed [1]. I'd love to see this thread albeit less frequent (once or maybe twice in a month). Let people give crazy ideas, and let other be motivated to build maybe one of those. I found interesting and intellectually stimulating discussions happening around some of the ideas posted on these threads which IMO alighn with the core vision of HN. 0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693262 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693262 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693640 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693640
- DanBC 12y ago
  I would really like a specific account to post one of these threads once per month. I am surprised that people post them themselves, and don't appear to be checking for other threads posted the same day.
  - livestyle 12y ago
    I did check. Just didn't see it. My bad.
- neuralk 12y ago
  It seems the two issues are: - people rushing to make an Idea Sunday thread/post at midnight - people unable to find the main Idea Sunday thread The former issue can be solved by having the whoishiring bot post Idea Sunday, and the latter can be solved by having the post "stickied" to the top of HN. I don't mean at position 1, but at an unnumbered position above that (I realize this is a may seem antithetic to some HNers, but most forums have this ability). That way it can act like an announcement thread; no one will miss it since its at the top, and no one will race to make it first since only whoishiring can post it. An additional benefit would be that future "Who is hiring?" posts could also be posted in the same place, so everyone can find it more easily. All told, I've really enjoyed the Idea Sunday posts, so I hope dang will rethink cancelling the experiment. As to the point that they are growing less interesting with regularity, I think a monthly or twice-monthly post may make more sense than a weekly one.
- 27182818284 12y ago
zrail 12y ago
Earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693262 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693262 Last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7541601 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7541601
gus_massa 12y ago
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693262 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693262 (150 points, 8 hours ago, 160 comments)
petersouth 12y ago
Seeing less comments. It appears people are quickly running out of good ideas.
- DanBC 12y ago
  This is a duplicate thread.
greenwalls 12y ago
Does anyone have any interesting Bitcoin ideas? I have a good Bitcoin domain but I'm not sure what to do with it.
- uptown 12y ago
  Is it generic enough for blockchain usage? I've got a blockchain idea, but it's not specific to bitcoin.
  - greenwalls 12y ago
    Sure.
- Scienz 12y ago
  I had two ideas, not exactly sure how to get them to work though: 1) Replace the pointless hashing with some actually useful calculation or form of work. Trouble is, I'm not sure what kind of asymmetrically difficult function could be used instead of hashing that would have some value for society. 2) Replace the hashing with some kind of genetic algorithm or other AI solution search. So instead of trying to find the proper hash, you're trying to find the proper algorithm to some currently-posed problem. Miners who find the current-best solution can then be rewarded with some form of bitcoin, which can be traded among themselves as currency, or used to decide what the next problem the network searches for a solution to will be. I figure this would make the entire blockchain into a giant sort of AI/brain, with the problems it tackles being more or less democratically chosen by whoever wants to spend the most of their bitcoin for it. The spent bitcoin then goes to the people who find the best solutions, in addition to whatever small amount of new bitcoin is mined. And replace "bitcoin" with whatever the new name would be, of course. May be possible, maybe not. There's basically no chance I'll be able to implement some version of either any time soon, so feel free to run with it if anyone thinks they can.
  - nanofortnight 12y ago
    1) Protein folding, general scientific computing. Though of course there needs to be some coordinate way to agree on what problems to solve. This may require a central authority who would dictate what problems are worth how much, or maybe this would just then branch off into many different cryptocurrencies, each focused around a particular problem, with automated conversion between them so it all looks the same. Who knows!
panon 12y ago
https://github.com/topdownburglar/globalu/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/topdownburglar/globalu/blob/master/README...
coinspotting 12y ago
You might want to check out this - A Hacker News for Ideas at http://firespotting.com http://firespotting.com.
simondlr 12y ago
VRCoin. It's a blockchain that simultaneously doubles as storage for items a decentralized virtual space. You require the coin to store/remove items from the space [namecoin for coordinates essentially]. I think once VR takes off there's going to be a desire for a virtual world that's not owned by any one specific entity. The blockchain acts as decentralized storage as well as spam control, so people don't just place dicks everywhere (or rather it would be costly to do so).
nl5874 12y ago
I've been working on a kind of reversed wetransfer. You'll claim a domain, and others can drop files at your personal url. It have been opensourced on github (https://github.com/dutchcoders/dropit https://github.com/dutchcoders/dropit). And running at https://dropit.io/ https://dropit.io/.
donniezazen 12y ago
What would you like to see in a weight logging Android application?
- 27182818284 12y ago
  The next steps in fitness are going to come with device integration, not just the app alone. The apps themselves, not coupled to devices, are converging on ideal in my opinion. I can't think of other features that I would like more for apps like MyFitnessPal other than more integration with the world around me through devices.
  - donniezazen 12y ago
    You are right. Device integration is tricky as hardware manufacturers don't play well with standards. And those hardware manufacturers that are ahead of curve are out of reach of general consumers. There are several apps in the market that do what I want a logger to do but they tend to present the data in a form which is not very effective in motivating me and reminding me the purpose. For example, There are a lot of app that one can use for tracking activities but Moves take the whole paradigm of activity tracking to the next level.
mokkol 12y ago
I don't know if it already exist but a password tool that automatically changes your passwords and syncs it with your mobile/desktop every day. (password for example: gmail, twitter facebook etc.) something like 1Password but automatically changing the passwords every day/week/month
- pallavkaushish 12y ago
  Mostly these type of software provide a policy system where you can set a rule so after every x days you'll be forced to change your passwords. However, automating this process for 3rd party apps would require to connect to the apps in a way that it allows the product to change passwords of your other accounts. I'm not even sure if 3rd party apps provide you the API to change password etc from another product. If that can be done then this product is very feasible.
dang 12y ago
Burying as dupe. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693640 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693640.
pallavkaushish 12y ago
I`m starting to work on a marketing tool which will be a combination of displaying popups like Bounce Exchange(http://bounceexchange.com/ http://bounceexchange.com/) and Tweetganic(http://www.tweetganic.com/ http://www.tweetganic.com/) or http://snip.ly/ http://snip.ly/. Currently Social Media Management tools like Hootsuite provide a link shortner so it's relatively easier for them to integrate a service like http://snip.ly/ http://snip.ly/ however they don't. The product I'm thinking to create will allow anyone to manage, split test their pop ups and promote themselves using a service like snip.ly. An analytics module will accompany the product so all the data can be meaningfully used to enhance the campaigns. Hope I was able to clearly explain my idea. Would detail out some more if anyone is interested.

Ask HN: Idea Sunday

55 points by livestyle 12y ago

First week of May edition.

the1 12y ago

- a reality show with gay men and one straight man. - for april fool's day, HN karma arrows are inverted. - frozen food with QR code of recipe (how long to microwave at what level), and microwaves that can read those and automatically cook. - google gives you a badge for searching a term for the first time. - social sharing aspect of cool searches you do. badges and levels. - online search master consultancy that searches you stuff. - Ask HN, Show HN, .. etc get different CSS color, font. - news site where everything is paid. but you can earn their virtual currency by joining, visiting, watching ads... etc. - mongodb-esque json crap db with joins and relationships and graph search. - edge side include for json elements. - can make a voice note on longitude and latitude so when others are around, they can hear the note. - jot melody online or in a mobile app. - jot lyrics. - $1 online service where professional musicians or computers play your jotted melody (10 second max, probably with a good arrangement). melody rendering service. - personal wayback machine. click a bookmarklet, the page is captured and saved for your personal index, search, retrieval. of course you can modify/annotate the retrieved page and possibly republish. - http://www.json-generator.com/ http://www.json-generator.com/ but contents come from crawling actual web content (maybe from google). - gravatar but using short video (gfycat, vine...). - responsive book format (technical books with code listing actually render well on kindle..). - responsive content web site. given where you are, when it is, who you are, what are capabilities of your device... etc provides you different contents. for example, at nights, gives you more adult pics. during work hours, gives you more work-related contents. - dating web site where you publish dates afterwards, including location, time, budget.... tells you who gets the most expensive free meal. who spends the most money... - search engine that only indexes disallowed resources. - "RESTful" api with millions of verbs (not only GET, POST, ...). makes linguistic analysis of the verbs and the requested resources. does some magic. - FedEx store right at security checkpoint. Toothpastes are returned to your home via trustworthy FedEx. - mentorship service / travel mate site where you can find other mentors , entreprenuers to share ideas, pair coding brogrammers... etc on plane. - submarine-spaceship that is actually a sumbarine and then it files all the way into the mars. a travel package that includes underwater, outer space,... etc. - a web page that when requested by google bot, submits itself to google for crawl.

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kr4 12y ago

Already posted [0] and was killed [1]. I'd love to see this thread albeit less frequent (once or maybe twice in a month). Let people give crazy ideas, and let other be motivated to build maybe one of those. I found interesting and intellectually stimulating discussions happening around some of the ideas posted on these threads which IMO alighn with the core vision of HN. 0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693262 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693262 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693640 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693640

DanBC 12y ago
I would really like a specific account to post one of these threads once per month. I am surprised that people post them themselves, and don't appear to be checking for other threads posted the same day.
- livestyle 12y ago
  I did check. Just didn't see it. My bad.
neuralk 12y ago
It seems the two issues are: - people rushing to make an Idea Sunday thread/post at midnight - people unable to find the main Idea Sunday thread The former issue can be solved by having the whoishiring bot post Idea Sunday, and the latter can be solved by having the post "stickied" to the top of HN. I don't mean at position 1, but at an unnumbered position above that (I realize this is a may seem antithetic to some HNers, but most forums have this ability). That way it can act like an announcement thread; no one will miss it since its at the top, and no one will race to make it first since only whoishiring can post it. An additional benefit would be that future "Who is hiring?" posts could also be posted in the same place, so everyone can find it more easily. All told, I've really enjoyed the Idea Sunday posts, so I hope dang will rethink cancelling the experiment. As to the point that they are growing less interesting with regularity, I think a monthly or twice-monthly post may make more sense than a weekly one.
27182818284 12y ago

zrail 12y ago

Earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693262 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693262 Last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7541601 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7541601

gus_massa 12y ago

Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693262 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693262 (150 points, 8 hours ago, 160 comments)

petersouth 12y ago

Seeing less comments. It appears people are quickly running out of good ideas.

DanBC 12y ago
This is a duplicate thread.

greenwalls 12y ago

Does anyone have any interesting Bitcoin ideas? I have a good Bitcoin domain but I'm not sure what to do with it.

uptown 12y ago
Is it generic enough for blockchain usage? I've got a blockchain idea, but it's not specific to bitcoin.
- greenwalls 12y ago
  Sure.
Scienz 12y ago
I had two ideas, not exactly sure how to get them to work though: 1) Replace the pointless hashing with some actually useful calculation or form of work. Trouble is, I'm not sure what kind of asymmetrically difficult function could be used instead of hashing that would have some value for society. 2) Replace the hashing with some kind of genetic algorithm or other AI solution search. So instead of trying to find the proper hash, you're trying to find the proper algorithm to some currently-posed problem. Miners who find the current-best solution can then be rewarded with some form of bitcoin, which can be traded among themselves as currency, or used to decide what the next problem the network searches for a solution to will be. I figure this would make the entire blockchain into a giant sort of AI/brain, with the problems it tackles being more or less democratically chosen by whoever wants to spend the most of their bitcoin for it. The spent bitcoin then goes to the people who find the best solutions, in addition to whatever small amount of new bitcoin is mined. And replace "bitcoin" with whatever the new name would be, of course. May be possible, maybe not. There's basically no chance I'll be able to implement some version of either any time soon, so feel free to run with it if anyone thinks they can.
- nanofortnight 12y ago
  1) Protein folding, general scientific computing. Though of course there needs to be some coordinate way to agree on what problems to solve. This may require a central authority who would dictate what problems are worth how much, or maybe this would just then branch off into many different cryptocurrencies, each focused around a particular problem, with automated conversion between them so it all looks the same. Who knows!

panon 12y ago

https://github.com/topdownburglar/globalu/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/topdownburglar/globalu/blob/master/README...

coinspotting 12y ago

You might want to check out this - A Hacker News for Ideas at http://firespotting.com http://firespotting.com.

simondlr 12y ago

VRCoin. It's a blockchain that simultaneously doubles as storage for items a decentralized virtual space. You require the coin to store/remove items from the space [namecoin for coordinates essentially]. I think once VR takes off there's going to be a desire for a virtual world that's not owned by any one specific entity. The blockchain acts as decentralized storage as well as spam control, so people don't just place dicks everywhere (or rather it would be costly to do so).

nl5874 12y ago

I've been working on a kind of reversed wetransfer. You'll claim a domain, and others can drop files at your personal url. It have been opensourced on github (https://github.com/dutchcoders/dropit https://github.com/dutchcoders/dropit). And running at https://dropit.io/ https://dropit.io/.

donniezazen 12y ago

What would you like to see in a weight logging Android application?

27182818284 12y ago
The next steps in fitness are going to come with device integration, not just the app alone. The apps themselves, not coupled to devices, are converging on ideal in my opinion. I can't think of other features that I would like more for apps like MyFitnessPal other than more integration with the world around me through devices.
- donniezazen 12y ago
  You are right. Device integration is tricky as hardware manufacturers don't play well with standards. And those hardware manufacturers that are ahead of curve are out of reach of general consumers. There are several apps in the market that do what I want a logger to do but they tend to present the data in a form which is not very effective in motivating me and reminding me the purpose. For example, There are a lot of app that one can use for tracking activities but Moves take the whole paradigm of activity tracking to the next level.

mokkol 12y ago

I don't know if it already exist but a password tool that automatically changes your passwords and syncs it with your mobile/desktop every day. (password for example: gmail, twitter facebook etc.) something like 1Password but automatically changing the passwords every day/week/month

pallavkaushish 12y ago
Mostly these type of software provide a policy system where you can set a rule so after every x days you'll be forced to change your passwords. However, automating this process for 3rd party apps would require to connect to the apps in a way that it allows the product to change passwords of your other accounts. I'm not even sure if 3rd party apps provide you the API to change password etc from another product. If that can be done then this product is very feasible.

dang 12y ago

Burying as dupe. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693640 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693640.

pallavkaushish 12y ago

I`m starting to work on a marketing tool which will be a combination of displaying popups like Bounce Exchange(http://bounceexchange.com/ http://bounceexchange.com/) and Tweetganic(http://www.tweetganic.com/ http://www.tweetganic.com/) or http://snip.ly/ http://snip.ly/. Currently Social Media Management tools like Hootsuite provide a link shortner so it's relatively easier for them to integrate a service like http://snip.ly/ http://snip.ly/ however they don't. The product I'm thinking to create will allow anyone to manage, split test their pop ups and promote themselves using a service like snip.ly. An analytics module will accompany the product so all the data can be meaningfully used to enhance the campaigns. Hope I was able to clearly explain my idea. Would detail out some more if anyone is interested.