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LeftistMuslimObama posted:financially responsible The target market seems fairly obvious then.
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duck pond posted:Srsly, do this I guess I'll give it a go. Maybe later I can automatically segment/tag new images using deep learning, then use the bag-of-words representation along with personal browsing preferences to recommend images to new users. The Pandora Radio of porn. Porndora. Smuttify.
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Jo posted:I guess I'll give it a go. Snoggle
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leper khan posted:Snoggle Booble.
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revmoo posted:Here's an idea I've been tossing around forever. I really like this idea, but I'm also the kind of person who buys pictures of skylines to decorate, so I
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So I have another project in the pipeline. It's pretty simple. It's for a holiday camp where they offer lots of activities places to eat etc and currently you get a paper map with loads of text on the back saying what's on at what time, you know the kind. Now I have a contact in the company who can get me this map on a decent hi res format. My plan is to make a set of native apps, containing the map and with each location of an activity clickable with a popup of the info and a link to book through their existing site. That's all easy enough the main functionally come from having the gps data show current location. This would have to be restricted to the lat and long of the map. I would like to include some routing so you can say take me to the lake and it plots the route and follows you through. The kicker in all this is I won't have the contract in place before making the app. As I say I have a contact and plan to make it and take it to show the boss and say want this? So bad idea? Too simple? Too complex? Too much time to invest for a potential nah it's ok?
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thegasman2000 posted:So I have another project in the pipeline. It's pretty simple. It's for a holiday camp where they offer lots of activities places to eat etc and currently you get a paper map with loads of text on the back saying what's on at what time, you know the kind. Now I have a contact in the company who can get me this map on a decent hi res format. My plan is to make a set of native apps, containing the map and with each location of an activity clickable with a popup of the info and a link to book through their existing site. That's all easy enough the main functionally come from having the gps data show current location. This would have to be restricted to the lat and long of the map. I would like to include some routing so you can say take me to the lake and it plots the route and follows you through. Just tell the organizer to use guidebook or whatever.
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thegasman2000 posted:So I have another project in the pipeline. It's pretty simple. It's for a holiday camp where they offer lots of activities places to eat etc and currently you get a paper map with loads of text on the back saying what's on at what time, you know the kind. Now I have a contact in the company who can get me this map on a decent hi res format. My plan is to make a set of native apps, containing the map and with each location of an activity clickable with a popup of the info and a link to book through their existing site. That's all easy enough the main functionally come from having the gps data show current location. This would have to be restricted to the lat and long of the map. I would like to include some routing so you can say take me to the lake and it plots the route and follows you through. "Here is this product I invented for you even though you didn't ask for it and don't know me." Think about how that will be received.
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I think I will abuse the hell out of this thread. I'm not going to post ideas I'm seriously invested in or think could be a huge business, just the random "Wouldn't it be cool" app ideas that occur to me all the time. Today's app idea is a social bike riding app. Aimed at cooperative riding in/with a group you're physically present in as opposed to Strava's asynchronous public competitive riding against strangers. Features would include realtime group stats (average speed, your speed relative to group, number of people and who they are, who's currently leading the draft line, each rider's % contribution to pulling), common communication channel for riders with bluetooth headphones, common music that any member can contribute to, ability to note road hazards for following riders (perhaps autodetect via accelerometer), request support. Where possible, interaction would be passive by audio or android wear. I was thinking of calling it "Shoal Creek" after a very popular street for biking in Austin, but also because a shoal is a large group of fish swimming together. gently caress making it a business, I kinda just want to have the app to use.
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thegasman2000 posted:So I have another project in the pipeline. It's pretty simple. It's for a holiday camp where they offer lots of activities places to eat etc and currently you get a paper map with loads of text on the back saying what's on at what time, you know the kind. Now I have a contact in the company who can get me this map on a decent hi res format. My plan is to make a set of native apps, containing the map and with each location of an activity clickable with a popup of the info and a link to book through their existing site. That's all easy enough the main functionally come from having the gps data show current location. This would have to be restricted to the lat and long of the map. I would like to include some routing so you can say take me to the lake and it plots the route and follows you through. So instead of the info in an easy to use map, you get the info in an app! You should make it now, so that they have all the leverage when negotiating how much to buy it for.
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Today's app idea is Secret Handshake: a way to find out and confirm whether people around you have the same information token you do without directly revealing that information. This could be used to advertise potentially sensitive interests (only talk about nerd poo poo to others who advertise they're into the same nerd poo poo, matching up kinks, verifying that someone is in the same group, or even coordinating person-to-person commerce (drug deals)). The key thing is that only someone who already has the secret token can verify that you do too. So this will involve a bit of cryptography, which I would want to get an expert opinion on. Here's how I'm envisioning it so far: Use bluetooth low energy advertising to publically serve a bloom filter populated with hashes of secret tokens, possibly filled with generated tokens to get the filter to a minimum capacity. On getting someone's filter, you can intersect it with your own to get the commonalities, then check which of your tokens are present in the combined filter. The nice thing about bloom filters for this purpose is that there's a single compressed structure for a large number of potential tokens, and it has built in plausible deniability in the form of technically possible false-positives in case the DEA is scanning for anyone advertising with the "IGOTWEED" token. At that point, you can use a public/private crypto challenge/response protocol to verify that the other party is not a false positive and actually has the token. The challenge would send a standard hash of the token which serves both as an identifier of which token it is and proof that the first party has the token, it would also contain a challenge salt. The response would be the hash of the token + challenge salt to verify that the 2nd party has the token. After all that song and dance is done, the bluetooth received signal strength can be used to physically find the other party. This could be extended to asymmetric relations (looking-for/have) fairly straightforwardly. It could also be extended to a centrally controlled authority for determining token validity for any particular token by having the authority sign the keys used for the second pass verification step.
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5TonsOfFlax posted:Today's app idea is Secret Handshake: a way to find out and confirm whether people around you have the same information token you do without directly revealing that information. This could be used to advertise potentially sensitive interests (only talk about nerd poo poo to others who advertise they're into the same nerd poo poo, matching up kinks, verifying that someone is in the same group, or even coordinating person-to-person commerce (drug deals)). I actually kinda' like this idea. I think I'd use it if it were available, but I have some concerns: 1) It will probably only be used by a niche group, or it will get abused and drowned out by people fishing for lewd stuff. 2) The crypto you're talking about is very difficult on a person-to-person basis. Maybe you could get away with it if you had a central server, but it's not clear to me how it would be resilient to people just generating tons of tests for the Bloom Filter. If you had a central server, you could also prevent someone from just making a HUGE list of things they were interested in, hoping to mine the interests of the people nearby.
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Jo posted:I actually kinda' like this idea. I think I'd use it if it were available, but I have some concerns: For 1), good. I was hoping this would enable members of niche groups to find each other. Though I do see how this would fall prey to the same problem Tinder has where if everybody just swipes right (floods their "interests") then there's no actual information. 2) You have a good point. The app could have max and min bloom filter capacities. It's possible to estimate the number of items in a bloom filter using the number of bits set to 1. Set it to a given number of bits and percentage allowed to be 1, and you can rule out someone just trying to search for EVERYTHING. But particualarly high sensitivity subjects would still need to either use central authority signing or otherwise truly secret tokens. I could totally see someone setting up a service to subscribe to a quick expiring token for a subject, and also vetting the subscribers. That could be done independently of the basic Secret Handshake app/protocol.
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I think I've misunderstood, what stops the DEA from doing the "Who has weed?" search, then querying any possible positive matches for the confirmation?
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NtotheTC posted:I think I've misunderstood, what stops the DEA from doing the "Who has weed?" search, then querying any possible positive matches for the confirmation? Nothing, really. Just as nothing stops them from trying to buy from (or sell to) anyone that looks likely today. In a situation like that, I would hope that if it's a prearranged deal a more unguessable token would have been chosen. This would take the place of recognizing someone via something like "I'll be the tall guy in the metallica t-shirt". You'll still have to eventually talk to the person to do anything. If it's just someone advertising that they enjoy weed, well, they do that today via all sorts of cultural signifiers. This would just be more subtle and invisible unless you're looking for it.
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5TonsOfFlax posted:Nothing, really. Just as nothing stops them from trying to buy from (or sell to) anyone that looks likely today. In a situation like that, I would hope that if it's a prearranged deal a more unguessable token would have been chosen. This would take the place of recognizing someone via something like "I'll be the tall guy in the metallica t-shirt". You'll still have to eventually talk to the person to do anything. I don't really see how the tokens are particularly useful if people have to communicate with each other ahead of time to decide what tokens mean what. The only way I can see this working is if there is a single source of tokens and you can't add that token to your profile without some kind of confirmation that it actually applies. If I've already pre-arranged a drug buy, hookup, whatever, the token doesn't help me. Your app is only useful if it helps me meet complete strangers that are confirmed to have the same interests as me.
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What if it could work in a similar way to hashtags? ( ) You'd have a pool of trending tokens that people would adopt through their common use, either widely or within a particular subculture. This is sort of one of the things the internet is good at after all, enabling people to easily find and form groups, and establish common language and norms. Hell you could even... hash things like Facebook group IDs and find other people who Like the same poo poo you doThis is a cool idea though, it's sort of like coming full circle in a way. People used to have to personally meet others who shared the same interests, go to places where those people might hang out, join social groups where they'd meet other people who were part of that culture. With the internet and social media especially you can do that all online, and live your entire social life there if you wanted to. I like the idea that you could roll all of that right into a purely in-person tool, and leverage all of that social connection potential to find people in the same room you have something in common with. There's just something warm and human about it 
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5TonsOfFlax posted:Nothing, really. Just as nothing stops them from trying to buy from (or sell to) anyone that looks likely today. In a situation like that, I would hope that if it's a prearranged deal a more unguessable token would have been chosen. This would take the place of recognizing someone via something like "I'll be the tall guy in the metallica t-shirt". You'll still have to eventually talk to the person to do anything. Makes sense. I do like the idea. It reminds me a little of a book I read ages ago called Fallen Dragon which was set in ~the future~ and featured Sexual Identification Bands or similar, which were basically bands you wore that had all the stuff you were into- and would alert other people in near proximity if you went past and your interests matched. Not suggesting you try and corner that market but the potential is there
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Twinder: You swipe right if you think you look like the person, left if you don't then once you get a match you can live out all your twisted autosexual fantasies bonus: swipe up if you think they look like your friend. If your friend doesn't have the app installed, it send them an invite. Guaranteed to spread like wildfire
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MoonMe is a social app that allows you to hail a mooning with your smartphone. Our courteous Moon Experts can be dispatched to your location (usually within 15 minutes) by relying on GPS coordinates, and each moon only costs $5. We have an option for a crowdsourced moon, where you can offer as much or as little as you want, and other mooning enthusiasts can bid on your offer. MoonMe is great for those times when you need to prank a friend or celebrate a special occasion. Or if you're just really into seeing the pressed ham of a random stranger... it's great for that too.
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So I am slowly but surely learning Swift and really want to make something simple and slick to get the bit between my teeth. I thought about what I want and haven't found yet so a new idea was formed. Its a simple post it note app on my iphone, I load it up and type a few characters, or paste in a url or whatever and woosh off it goes. The next time I wake my macbook the desktop has a stack of post it notes waiting for me, allowing me to remember the stuff I wanted to lookup when back in the office. Could also include doodles or something but I couldn't use a simple database like I planned.... perhaps in version 7.0 or something.
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thegasman2000 posted:So I am slowly but surely learning Swift and really want to make something simple and slick to get the bit between my teeth. I thought about what I want and haven't found yet so a new idea was formed. Its a simple post it note app on my iphone, I load it up and type a few characters, or paste in a url or whatever and woosh off it goes. The next time I wake my macbook the desktop has a stack of post it notes waiting for me, allowing me to remember the stuff I wanted to lookup when back in the office. Could also include doodles or something but I couldn't use a simple database like I planned.... perhaps in version 7.0 or something. This is literally google keep. I'm sure Apple has an equivalent.
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baka kaba posted:What if it could work in a similar way to hashtags? ( What if, instead of "trending" , they'll be "trusted" tokens. Tokens trusted by X and Y (who themselves would have to be trusted individuals), get some ... "trust points". Now, that i think about it, this is like the secure certificate fiasco  .
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I think that I can bridge the IDE / text editor divide and create something with all the advantages of both, with none of the respective disadvantages. That is, the blazing speed, <200ms startup time, and powerful editor and plugin system of say vim, but also all the red squigglies, refactoring, project understanding / building, jump-to, documentation, concurrency, debugging support, etc of say eclipse. Reactions? Is this something you'd be excited about? Does that description sound uninteresting? Or does it sound impossible? Is it too abstract? Or...?
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crazypenguin posted:I think that I can bridge the IDE / text editor divide and create something with all the advantages of both, with none of the respective disadvantages. Yes. If I could have Notepad++ with some rudimentary error detection and code completion + line bookmarking, that would be pretty much perfect. For something like Java, I would love it it could look at the online javadoc for a method I've finished typing and show me the parameters. I always forget what order to put parameters in for some methods I use less often.
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:Yes. If I could have Notepad++ with some rudimentary error detection and code completion + line bookmarking, that would be pretty much perfect. For something like Java, I would love it it could look at the online javadoc for a method I've finished typing and show me the parameters. I always forget what order to put parameters in for some methods I use less often. So vim or emacs..
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leper khan posted:So vim or emacs.. I think "user friendly" was implied in his post.
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oRenj9 posted:I think "user friendly" was implied in his post. So vim.
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Yeah, I prefer not to hang out in a shell all day, thanks.
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crazypenguin posted:That is, the blazing speed, <200ms startup time, and powerful editor and plugin system of say vim, but also all the red squigglies, refactoring, project understanding / building, jump-to, documentation, concurrency, debugging support, etc of say eclipse. Vim/sublime/probably emacs can pretty much do all of that already. The biggest constraint is that being text-only makes UI uglier/tougher to do. VIM with decent UI widgets for its existing functionality re: project management, building, debugging, etc. would be great, but given the likely state of vim code it'd probably be less effort to start from scratch than to try to bolt it on. The Insect Court fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Oct 21, 2014 |
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Also, my own terrible app idea: A billing processor software as a service that generates QR codes with stub URLs that lead to a mini-site where the particular customer the bill was sent to can view it online, pay it through a variety of methods, and opt-in to e-billing for future bills. There are lots of places that still use paper billing systems in lieu of electronic billing, and there are plenty of customers when given the opportunity to move to e-billing will stick with paper. This provides some of the benefits of e-billing to a paper billing system and can serve as an onramp to fully paperless electronic billing. The Insect Court fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Oct 21, 2014 |
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Pre-worn t-shirts. There is nothing more comfortable than an old t-shirt. New t-shirts are so stiff and their cotton/polyester is so thick and abrasive. I want to start a business selling t-shirts that have already aged to maturity. Let's face it, our favorite t-shirts are like fine wine, they only get better with age. Hell, this could be a selling point, there could be different vintages of t-shirt! Wouldn't you like to buy zany graphic tees that are as comfortable as the 8-year-old-t-shirt-you-save-especially-for-wearing-with-your-sweats-on-laundry-day shirt? Of course, so it fits in the thread, there would be an app to go along with it somehow. Hell, maybe there could be a trading club?
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Old t-shirts stop being more comfortable than new t-shirts once you're willing to pay more than like $10 for them*, so I guess the obvious business model would be to pay people to go to goodwill, pick out all the stuff that isn't crap, and mark it up 500%. * A $30 band shirt is a $25 donation and a $5 shirt.
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Plorkyeran posted:Old t-shirts stop being more comfortable than new t-shirts once you're willing to pay more than like $10 for them*, so I guess the obvious business model would be to pay people to go to goodwill, pick out all the stuff that isn't crap, and mark it up 500%. I was thinking if trying to simulate pre-worn shirts rather than reselling second-hand clothes. Either way works I guess. I was thinking of patenting some aging process of like washing the shirts like 100 times and air-tumble-drying it with rocks bashing the crap out of it or something like that. I suppose there could be different "vintages" where the number of washing-drying-rock-beatings changes to simulate different ages. Some people might like a shirt that's only "1 year old" and some, like me, prefer t-shirts that are like "5 years old." Another option is to build a robot army that would wear the shirts and simulate everyday tasks for a year. The robot would also be preprogrammed to wash and dry the shirts and put them back on.
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The Insect Court posted:Also, my own terrible app idea: Would you provide an access pin number with the paper statement to permit URL access only to the statement recipient? edit:  http://www.qrpay.com/QR Pay posted:QR Pal is a Smart Phone Application which enables users to Scan, Store and Share their QR Code and Barcode scans. QR Pal includes QR Pay's new contactless payment solution that enables individuals and businesses to make payments via QR Codes and mobile phones. Other features include SafeScan (protecting users from malicious codes), product comparison (barcodes), online backups and synchronisation. Woodsy Owl fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Oct 27, 2014 |
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Hey y'all, I get that OP's ideas are kinda bad, but he started this thread in earnest because he was being wise enough to know that his ideas might be bad. Let's not discourage folks from sounding out their ideas by being huge dicks to them.
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:Hey y'all, I get that OP's ideas are kinda bad, but he started this thread in earnest because he was being wise enough to know that his ideas might be bad. Let's not discourage folks from sounding out their ideas by being huge dicks to them. Meh totally used to it.
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Woodsy Owl posted:Pre-worn t-shirts. There is nothing more comfortable than an old t-shirt. New t-shirts are so stiff and their cotton/polyester is so thick and abrasive. I want to start a business selling t-shirts that have already aged to maturity. So like buying jeans with holes already ripped in them? There's a big variety of t-shirt material and I bet you could find some fabrics that have that 'old threadbare' feel, then change the graphics design so it's pre-faded, then print one on the other and you're done.
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Woodsy Owl posted:Would you provide an access pin number with the paper statement to permit URL access only to the statement recipient? No to the pin, since a UUID in the QR code should effectively eliminate the possibility of someone just stumbling across it by making lots of API requests. I actually came across qrpay before, but they seem to be focusing on ecommerce and point of sale, my idea would would be to focus on integrating with paper billing systems. I'm thinking small businesses like medical and legal offices where they probably don't have the infrastructure in place to do online billing of their own, and where most charges are non-recurring. In a half-assed five minute google search I haven't found any company doing that, which probably means it's a terrible idea.
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The Insect Court posted:No to the pin, since a UUID in the QR code should effectively eliminate the possibility of someone just stumbling across it by making lots of API requests. Oh right on, I read into it a little more and it sounds like they aren't even going in the direction you want to go. You should run with your idea, it sounds awesome! It'd be incredibly useful for small businesses that still bill/invoice by paper because they don't have the infrastructure to accept e-payments. LeftistMuslimObama posted:Hey y'all, I get that OP's ideas are kinda bad, but he started this thread in earnest because he was being wise enough to know that his ideas might be bad. Let's not discourage folks from sounding out their ideas by being huge dicks to them. Who was discouraging who? 
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