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by arafalov 14y ago
Learning photo camera for children (and grandparents) Fully weather/drop sealed with fixed capacity Use induction to charge Use wifi and/or bluetooth to transfer pictures automatically to parents/cloud Use bluetooth headset for commands, in
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by arafalov 14y ago
Photo Shoot - everybody has a camera, but does not have time to really learn it Basic Idea: Setup a big room/maze with multiple rooms/shooting range where people can practice their skills with their (or borrowed camera). The twist: do it in
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by arafalov 14y ago
Kids' checklist For pre-reading kids, activities with big-pretty icons for things like: putting toys away brushing teeth etc. Allows them to check items off to give kids good habits. Gamify the achievements. This exists for the fridge, but
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by arafalov 14y ago
Find me an app App to do social voting for iPhone/iPad app to find apps for X Make it free to watch (viral aspect) Pay $0.99 to vote for questions/ideas $5 for 10 votes (or some similar scaling) If not winning, keep (all, half?) the votes T
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by arafalov 14y ago
Contest tracking Track the developer contents, list the APIs allowed, deadlines, countries, prizes. Allow people to comment around the tasks Allow people to provide training around the tasks (sell the e-Book versions of the training, give p
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by arafalov 14y ago
FirstLesson.com - product reviews for language learning websites. Do a screencast of language learning website (first lesson for each). Allows people to see for themselves which of the sites better fit their needs. Make money from affiliate
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by arafalov 14y ago
1-800-Sustainable Allow people to SMS/text (or IM) fish name and get information on whether it is sustainable. Parse multiple names/synonyms. Provide bit.ly links for full information for those with smart phones. Use geolocation to differen
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by arafalov 14y ago
I have a whole (Google) Drive of ideas, each with a hook, strategy, and business plan. Some of them, I have seen startups to independently try. I will post a bunch as individual sub-comments, see if anybody wants to make a startup of them.
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by arafalov 14y ago
You mean like HalfBakery and friends ( http://www.halfbakery.com/ , see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfbakery )
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by arafalov 14y ago
And this: http://chronicle.com/article/Teaching-to-the-World-From/1340...
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by arafalov 14y ago
Zynga made vast majority of its money from the people significantly older than 14. And they swear by gamification.
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by arafalov 14y ago
Looks interesting if niche. Somebody should take all the documentation and create gamification experience around it. With levels and all. Maybe even as a submission to the currently running Gamification Coursera class.... I can just imagine
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by arafalov 14y ago
Yes. Tim O'Reilly keep saying that a good business should bring more value (to everybody) that it takes for itself. So, a startup should be looking at positive externalities of its business. KickStarter is making money, but it brings new pr
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by arafalov 15y ago
Anyone trying to learn to work in LSOs, should read the Political Savvy book first: http://www.politicalsavvy.com/docs/book.html (ignore all the colour scheme and additional monetization junk, just borrow/buy the book itself)
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by arafalov 15y ago
It is interesting the number of arguments around the lock-in factor and how it is great for Apple at the expense of everybody else. The fact is that the format underneath should be ePub3 with extras. ePub3 (with various extras) is and be av
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by arafalov 15y ago
Actually, it is probably yes on 11 (50-year down the track). Unless Apple encrypted the format, it is epub3 - zip file with html, xml, and other standard-based formats in there. Unzip, extract, modify, recreate under emulator. Same story as
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by arafalov 15y ago
And you could nearly do it now. Certainly, actors on demands already exist, just not in real time. Combine automatic text generation (a long-time research topic) with some other existing tech and we could be 90% to the primer.
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by arafalov 16y ago
Glad you are having a go at it. I had some thoughts around that space a while ago: http://blog.outerthoughts.com/2007/01/calling-for-support-ca... Point 6 there is similar to what you are trying to do. Never did it, never will, but I do h