Interested in sharing some web or internet ideas? Here are mine:
idea 1) a system for collecting the realtime browsing behaviour of a group of people (eg YC-news readers via a Firefox plugin) and then displaying stats of popular and fast-gaining sites and urls as submitted by the plugin. A name for this system could be: eg 'swarmlinks' and group owners would link their group to a particular site for those stats to then be displayed on the site, with the group owner also promoting participation of the plugin from their site visitors.
idea 2) site widget enabling anyone to enlist themselves to help develop any site that displays the widget with a notification sent to the enlister once a certain threshold of other people have also enlisted or once a certain number of those enlisters have forthwith become active developers.
How the first idea came about:
I just think the information would be useful in discovering new sites and learning about different communities.
How the second idea came about: would create an alternative to Sourceforge for helping people decide where to focus their development time.
