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- Startup: create a universal and convenient micropayment system that would allow content creators(writers, comics-artists, video creators) to monetize their co

by rayalez 11y ago

- Startup: create a universal and convenient micropayment system that would allow content creators(writers, comics-artists, video creators) to monetize their content. The problem now is that current systems suck, and each website has it's own, so that it's not convenient for users to pay for content, they have to enter credit card, or go to paypal, etc. There should be a nice embeddable button that allows users to pay for watching a video or reading an article in one click, on any website. Or maybe something even more elegant and convenient. - Startup: xprize meets kickstarter. Or a reverse-kickstarter. You create and back the project first, and then anyone can execute it and collect the reward. People come up with projects they want to see happen, submit the idea. Anyone can vote on the idea by sending some money. As a result you have a list of user-created project ideas, ranked by how much money people deposited on them. Anyone who completes a project gets all the money. - Project: A convenient website where users can add feature ideas, vote on them, and discuss implementatuon. It would be a convenient way for developers to prioritize which tasks to work on. Probably connected to git. Basically like submitting issues, but it's feature ideas and it's ranked by importance. - In-browser markdown editor like on gitbook.com. Please somebody make this. Ideally it would be open source, but I would totally pay for an opportunity to use it on my website. - slant.co, but for things other than tech. Movies, books, music, whatever. Or a similar open-source system so that I could spin up my own website with this. - Awesome open source chat that I can embed on my website. Like chapp.is or gitter.im - ELI5 for computer science and programming. Explain linear regression, ANN, and other complicated concepts in short, simple terms. -A robot simulator programming game where you control a virtual robot with your code. Targeted to CS and AI students. You could use this game to practice algorithms you are learning. Challenges(levels) are somewhat similar to AIMA exercises, or can be taken from berkeley AI class curriculum. Later you add a "competition" feature, where several teams program their robots to fight each other. Check out Screeps and Starcraft AI Tournament for inspiration. (the whole game is in the browser, robots are controlled with REST API so you could use any language.) Send me an email to raymestalez@gmail.com if you are interested in working on any of these. I know Django, I can contribute, especially if it's open source.

rayalez 11y ago
Other stuff: - All text editors on android suck. My god they suck so much. Create something like Editorial, and you have my money. - Not sure of it exists - betting website. Allow people to deposit money and make small bets. Make it convenient for reddit users, so when 2 people are arguing they could bet on a thing and see what will happen. Or target it to fanfiction readers, to bet on what will happen in the following chapters(would be super useful for /r/HPMOR) - Website - a collection of ways to make people's lives weirder. Something like pranks, or ways to mess with people's heads, but harmless, funny, and innocent. Stuff that Harry from HPMOR does. - Use ML and CV and image recognition to do something cool with google maps. It's just an interesting idea, use CV to analyze google maps data. - Subreddit recommendation engine. Based on your likes and subscriptions. Like on imdb. - gitter for subreddits. Connect a subreddit to a chat. - HN-lore. There are some links that are submitted to HN regularly, and every 6 months new people discover them. Great stories people here like sharing, articles, books, etc. Create a ranked list of HN folklore and traditions. - Automatically compile my HN, reddit, other social media posts into a blog-like post feed. - Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding for movies and animation projects. It would be a big kill-Hollywood kind of startup, not sure about how to make this at all, but we should turn movie industry into a github/reddit-like thing. Just a dream I guess.
- dagw 11y ago
  Use ML and CV and image recognition to do something cool with google maps. It's just an interesting idea, use CV to analyze google maps data. As someone working with something vaguely related to this sort of thing. Let me just say, use Open Street Maps. Google mapping data and the licensing thereof is a huge pain and often straight up impossible. Don't lock yourself into developing something for a platform where you will be forbidden from selling or even distributing the fruits of your labor. Plus with OSM you get direct access to the underlying vector data, which in most cases will save you an arduous and error prone processing step Other than that, the whole field is wide open for all kinds of awesome ideas.
- brador 11y ago
  For anyone wondering: ML = Machine Learning, CV = computer vision.

by rayalez 11y ago

rayalez 11y ago

Other stuff: - All text editors on android suck. My god they suck so much. Create something like Editorial, and you have my money. - Not sure of it exists - betting website. Allow people to deposit money and make small bets. Make it convenient for reddit users, so when 2 people are arguing they could bet on a thing and see what will happen. Or target it to fanfiction readers, to bet on what will happen in the following chapters(would be super useful for /r/HPMOR) - Website - a collection of ways to make people's lives weirder. Something like pranks, or ways to mess with people's heads, but harmless, funny, and innocent. Stuff that Harry from HPMOR does. - Use ML and CV and image recognition to do something cool with google maps. It's just an interesting idea, use CV to analyze google maps data. - Subreddit recommendation engine. Based on your likes and subscriptions. Like on imdb. - gitter for subreddits. Connect a subreddit to a chat. - HN-lore. There are some links that are submitted to HN regularly, and every 6 months new people discover them. Great stories people here like sharing, articles, books, etc. Create a ranked list of HN folklore and traditions. - Automatically compile my HN, reddit, other social media posts into a blog-like post feed. - Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding for movies and animation projects. It would be a big kill-Hollywood kind of startup, not sure about how to make this at all, but we should turn movie industry into a github/reddit-like thing. Just a dream I guess.

dagw 11y ago
Use ML and CV and image recognition to do something cool with google maps. It's just an interesting idea, use CV to analyze google maps data. As someone working with something vaguely related to this sort of thing. Let me just say, use Open Street Maps. Google mapping data and the licensing thereof is a huge pain and often straight up impossible. Don't lock yourself into developing something for a platform where you will be forbidden from selling or even distributing the fruits of your labor. Plus with OSM you get direct access to the underlying vector data, which in most cases will save you an arduous and error prone processing step Other than that, the whole field is wide open for all kinds of awesome ideas.
brador 11y ago
For anyone wondering: ML = Machine Learning, CV = computer vision.