I am a man who, from time to time, is given to ideas. Are they any good? I don’t know. Most of them are terrible. At any rate, here they are for the world to see.
- Cloud service for application synchronization
- tasting notes
- an app to record food and drinks that you’ve had, and your comments about them. Useful to recall that cheese you had 3 years ago, or to find what your friends have enjoyed.
- inbox zero
- gamification of getting to inbox zero.
- moviesect – find movies in which a set of actors played
- in which moves have Johnny Depp & Tim Burton been involved?
- unix command output in json. ie `echo”hello”`:”{‘command’: ‘echo’, ‘exit_code’: 0, ‘stdout’: ‘hello’}.
- Betting app
- bet on anything with imaginary dollars. involve your friends. compete for highest score (cash).
- Lyrics search engine which confines search to bands/songs you’ve listened to (via last.fm/pandora)
- Safe, exclusive place to post project ideas. Selected people may voice an interest to collaborate on any idea
- twitter sentiment analysis: find the general mood of people in your stream
- Regex the dictionary
- great for cheating at scrabble?
- sign up to every website that has free registration with a unique email address. See which addresses get spam. publish this list
- may have been done before
- Hatebox
- Name something you hate about a product you use
- (this idea must have come during a period of particular frustration)
- wrapper to provide uniform interface for all VCSs
- KeyValueSter
- Social database (??).
- schema-free details about yourself.
- (I must have been drunk).
- better news.yc twitter notifier. add source domain, comment link
- Service for finding friends on twitter.
- Looks for things in common between members (i.e. use wefollow tags and possibly social graph).
- Introduces the two people in hope of sparking friendship
- Graph communities on twitter. Looks at connections but only count conversations as edges. Try to find discrete social circles.
- (was wondering if there was an alternate tech-scene in SF I didn’t know about).
- Follow iCal feeds and tweet reminders
- twitter rss monitor
- a bot to notify users over twitter when a feed they follow updates.
- WIP: https://github.com/mwhooker/Tweed
- Why is this person following me on twitter?
- who do they follow that follow me?
- who follows them that I follow?
- all important questions that I tried to answer with https://github.com/mwhooker/whyisthispersonfollowingme
- Standards for nonstandard thing.
- Example: bathrooms. Sink faucet should leave adequate room for hands. Build or recommend sets of faucets/sinks which work well together. If build, make them like Ikea furniture: nothing which goes together poorly should physically fit. Build brand around certification.
- Problem: no one really knows how much they’re worth. Build a tool to figure this out.
- Perhaps a network of companies which agree to rate candidates they’ve interviewed in exchange for market info on candidates.
- Examples of problem:
- Candidate has (intelligence, skill, enthusiasm, etc.) impedance mismatch with interviewers. Candidate will not fit in at company. Help candidate find company he’d fit well in
- google app engine configuration management app. use HTTP for config. XML (with types) data format. user interface. Configuration should be a tree with inheritance. version config
- browser plugin to record every page you visit for easy search later.