An phone/web app that allows you to click on a place in google maps and request a "cammer" for x minutes, you pay $x and anyone running the software on their phone that is near that location can accept the offer and start streaming video from their phone to you, allowing you to have a kind of "live" street view.
There is UI for the payer to click on arrows to inform the cammer to move here or there, and to zoom or focus on certain things, also a pre translated set of things to help communicate with cammer. Cammer gets paid after the x minutes is up.
Cammer gets cheap money for being a personal camera man for someone somewhere else in the world.
Client saves a trip out there to see something for himself.
Use cases:
Want to see if an antique you are looking for is at the markets but cant get away from work?. Want to check out markets in turkey but live in australia? Want to see what the surf is "really" like right now and whether you should bother heading out? Police work/chases! heaps of uses.
For popular events and markets, a cammer could setup shop and offer high quality streams etc.
I love this idea! I virtually attend a lot of auctions that only provide still images of items from flattering angles, I'd get good use out of this for previewing items alone. I think you'd need to build in some sort of instruction from the viewer to the cammer. As per my example, perhaps I could offer someone a buck for a 3 minute pan over lots 124, 283, and 284 (vague example getting weirdly specific).
I recently bought a Kobo Mini. There is no mention on the box about just how irritating the Kobo setup process is.
I have books on my computer. I want to transfer those books to my ereader. I want to read those books on the ereader. At some point I will need an Internet connection to buy new books. The Kobo reader seems to want to force the user to connect the Kobo to the Internet (when it downloads a massive update) and join the user's computer to the Internet (no apparent Linux version) to download some client software.
I would not have bought the device if I had watched a video of the setup process.
Other people are having problems with their TVs because connectivity to one specific site being broken means the TV will not connect to any other site.
So: this website exists for people to post unboxing videos (which they can monetise with whatever video hosting site they use) and short reviews of pain points. There would be a standardised boilerplate bit to every review - covering the need for Internet connection; how much data is sent back to the company; consumables cost and requirements; system-tie in; and so on. There woild be a smaller bit of the review for free form opinion.
Reviewers earn reputation and trust somehow.
There's some hidden meta bit of site to take corrections.
Idea: Git-story, a website that generates summary narratives from git commit histories and other github data.
Here's a brain-dump with some ideas for the specifics:
Use foreshadowing: "It all started with one person, X, spending months to gradually build what would one day become Y, a project forked by hundreds and starred by thousands."
When someone makes their first contribution to a project give them a brief introduction, like a shorter version of http://osrc.dfm.io/
Use sentiment analysis on commit messages to say things like "Frustrations mount as...", "the developers rejoice after..."
When people work on multiple concurrent branches use use phrases like: Meanwhile, X and Y toil away on the new Z feature.
Use the time between commits to chunk them into single sentences/paragraphs. Also, add comments if the project goes dormant, or if there is a spike in development.
Use keywords in commit messages like merge, revert, resolve to generate events in the story.
When bugs are resolved look for linked issues and use the age of the bug and number of comments to say thinks like "A finally fixed the controversial B bug"
As a teacher of IT courses, I'd love a tool that would make it easy for me to set up "TDD" assignments and manage student submissions and grading. For example, I teach a SQL database course. I'd like to tell students that they need to build a database such that queries A, B, C succeed and D, E, F fail. They would upload their schema (the CREATE TABLE code), the test suite would run, and they'd see the score and decide if they wanted to try again. This minimizes the grading work, and by making the test suite transparent, helps the students learn.
It would be very tedious to build tests for one assignment, and there'd be a risk of cheating if every student had to pass the exact same tests. If the product were a "platform" however, teachers could share the assignments (and test suites) they defined, so pretty soon it would be possible for me to assign a different database project to each student in my class, with a different test suite, by drawing on the content library.
Interesting idea. So we're in Beta and looking for good ideas like this to build showing our technology. For background, we take a user's GitHub repo and deploy them into REST API endpoints hosted on EC2. Each REST API is already paired with a database with SQLAlchemy. Clients invoke their REST API to publish their code as a "Job" requiring 3 parts: inputs, outputs, and tasks to perform (states). Those tasks can be whatever is necessary for your tdd and we test Jobs directly from our Web Developer Dashboard or with our cli.
I could see something like a Final Exam repo setup where your students fork it for development and then testing based off the same code and tests are shared already in the repo and can be invoked for grading from our cli or the Web Developer Dashboard.
Idea: a new way to purchase and set up a fish tank. Currently, you have two options:
a) Buy everything separately - tank, filter, heater, plants, fish. You have to find out whether your fish and plants are compatible and your tank is big enough for what you want etc. You have to figure out where to put the heater and filter so that it doesn't look unsightly.
b) Buy a prebuilt tank with the filter and heater etc. pre-installed somewhere not too ugly. You still have to figure out which livestock you can keep, based on tank size, filter type, plants, and whether they can live with the other livestock you want. You also have to live with the prebuilt tank company's design decisions, which you might not like.
The solution: a company that offers minimalistic, sleek tanks with a modular system for adding filters, heaters, skimmers, lighting, etc. that keeps the equipment out of the way and not looking ugly. Also, an online service where they can select and order the modular tank and equipment that they want, and be allowed to choose from compatible livestock and plants. Alternatively, they can start with livestock that they want and they can be recommended the right modular tank and equipment etc. They can pay for everything all together and the items would be delivered as they are needed (with marine tanks, for example, you have to let the tank 'cycle' for a few weeks so that the water parameters normalise before you can add livestock).
I sometimes think I'd like a tank of tiny neon tetras. So it would be great if I could go to a site and say "I'd like 20 neon tetras. What other fish should I consider? What other tanks etc would I need?"
You must buy a licence if you live in the UK and use a device to watch tv as it is broadcast. The licence costs £145 and non payment is currently a criminal offence (although that may change). Non payment of those fines has caused imprisonment.
Outside the UK it is quite hard to give money to the BBC. You can buy their DVDs or subscribe to their channels if available.
IDEA:
Have a website that connects these two groups - people outside the UK can pay for a tv licence to be used by someone inside the UK.
The UK side would take referrals from a small number of existing voluntary groups. The people being referred would have been though debt counselling and some kind of budgeting guidance.
The website would earn money by skimming a small amount off the top.
I was hoping there would be a tool (web and app accessible) that combines email, to-do, document sharing, calendars all into one, with easy access control for each 'file'. Target users are smallish startup teams. For example, apart from each individual email accounts, there are also team ones (e.g. sales@) which multiple people can see and 'claim'.
You can achieve something similar with multiple apps, but I would need to invite the same people for each, and setup access control. Gmail for business, Office365 type are somewhat similar, but they also do not put everything easily reacheable and connected. Good is also similar, but I believe they require you to host your own Exchange backend, but a hosted solution here is probably more hassle-free.
I recently watched the ESPN 30 for 30 on the Hillsborough disaster of 1989. Towards the end, at the 25th annual memorial of the 96 deceased, the crowd of 30,000 begins to angrily chant, "JUSTICE! FOR THE 96!" and man what a powerful moment. What a powerful, beautiful human moment.
I believe it was this act that galvanized political figures to organize an independent panel to determine the truth.
The very truth that would bring justice and the long-awaited relief of some of the grief that haunted the victims of those who were affected.
So, justice96 will be a site dedicated to Acts of Injustice.
Content aggregation with a justiceboner-driven narrative.
However, the potential for witch hunts is too great if it's a purely community-driven website. Claims would have to be verified and independently investigated by admins of the site.
I wish it was possible emails sent are erased from the recipient's email client. I want to own the parts of the email conversation that I wrote.
The reason to want this is to not leave an electronic trail of everything you say. Chat clients, which communicate synchronously, can already do this. Is it impossible to do asynchronously with email?
One problem is people might want to archive what you write, which would defeat the purpose of OTR. This isn't something a messaging protocol can solve. Once text shows up on a screen, you can copy the text. But I can imagine people archiving rarely in practice, if only because you'd have to do something manually, which would make keeping an electronic record the exception and not the rule.
Idea: A pattern language for feature implementations.
When I was brainstorming with a colleague on how to implement search for his side project, I brought up something like this:
Search:
- Searching for a particular item? Show a list of items containing the term: Wikipedia, Facebook
- Autocomplete with the first result: Facebook
- Redirect user to first result after entering: Wikipedia
- Searching within a limited scope? Let user choose between limited and full: GitHub
- Change the results while the user types: Google
Is there already a site for this, listing how different projects do a particular feature?
And it doesn't have to be UI only; it would be a good idea to list down the different ways to authenticate for example (passwords, optional passwords, auth through email).
People can set up quests (read How Children Fail, join the flashmob on a cardboard arcade, complete a hard challenge on dailyprogrammer, make your own programming language) with rewards (reputation points, cash bounty, achievements/badges, etc.). Somewhere between BucketListly (real life achievements) and freelance websites or Fiverr (small jobs with fixed payments).
An phone/web app that allows you to click on a place in google maps and request a "cammer" for x minutes, you pay $x and anyone running the software on their phone that is near that location can accept the offer and start streaming video from their phone to you, allowing you to have a kind of "live" street view.
There is UI for the payer to click on arrows to inform the cammer to move here or there, and to zoom or focus on certain things, also a pre translated set of things to help communicate with cammer. Cammer gets paid after the x minutes is up.
Cammer gets cheap money for being a personal camera man for someone somewhere else in the world.
Client saves a trip out there to see something for himself.
Use cases: Want to see if an antique you are looking for is at the markets but cant get away from work?. Want to check out markets in turkey but live in australia? Want to see what the surf is "really" like right now and whether you should bother heading out? Police work/chases! heaps of uses.
For popular events and markets, a cammer could setup shop and offer high quality streams etc.