idea: recipe in a box delivery, subscriptions. includes all ingredients needed to cook that meal.
idea: how many hours of the day do software licenses sit unused, like photoshop? what if someone could remotely access specific applications in a totally secure sandbox? rent it out for a nominal fee, like a few cents a minute. could add up…
Idea: Arrange the who of eating out. Coordinate meals with people: group preferences and schedules. Discover and reach out to new people for a bite to eat. Pull info from Foursquare, Facebook, LinkedIn, Yelp to generate recos and such. And/or: Chatroulette for lunch?
Inspiration: grubwithus, ohours, doodle.com, chatroulette
Idea: I’d love to know who might like the page I’m viewing currently. Especially when I’m reading blogs, checking out an event or restaurant, even shopping. It would be great if the pages I view could speak up and suggest opportunities for starting conversations and breaking the ice with people I know.
more rss make better thoughts
rss problems that reeder doesn’t already solve—
following sources (each site handles in different way). reader could list 99% most popular sources in app store discovery format and manual add for the long-tail.
track which rss posts are “marked” as read and which are “actually” read. could experiment with actually read posts:
-automatically distribute a list of actually read posts to social networks
-smart recos
scanning flat lists for something interesting
- what are your friends reading right now?
- aggregating similar stories across multiple followed sources (ala techmeme)
-shouldn’t be about parsing the long-tail. should be about always having something interesting to read.
—or—
you “like” different sources. not about the effort of scanning through exhaustive lists. jsust a curated selection of things to read based on what you like. can give manual weight to sources to alter the feed. if the list is never ending, it can’t be about the chore of marking as read.
accountabilibuddy
you’re matched with another person that has similar goal as you. you must submit progress reports or else something bad happens. basically stickk.com with way more peer pressure.
or you apply for consideration into membership with your action plan. plan reviewed and approved or denied. each time you apply you pay fee until it is specific enough. or it is community reviewed.
to-do strip
problem- keep current task in focus at all times execution- horizontal strip occupying 10% vertical height at the bottom of the screen. displays text in large font size. maximizing another window won’t overlap the strip nor will the stip float over the window. for example, a 1000 pixel height screen with the to-do strip active. the to-do strip occupies y coordinates 900 through 1000. maximizing chrome would enlarge its window to occupy y coordinates 0-900.
games that build skills
mission statement? useful skills extend outside of game as result of playing. like if you beat mario it’s like yay, but then what? but if you win/lose stock market game, youve learned something useful. competition side effects.
where next
after people check in, where do they check in next? use the foursquare api (venues -> checkins -> who’s here) to build out the links
