I had the exact same experience after a friend's bachelor party in Vegas. Even though we had all been there plenty of times before and it was only 6 of us, it would've been great to have an app that could be pre-loaded with certain important info:

Hotel address, room number, phone number
Dates and times for big events (dinners out)

All that kind of stuff. I'd gladly have paid $5 to have all that information handy in a way that would alert me when I need to know something is coming up, or help me get my drunk ass back to the room when I fall in to a cab.

http://lifehacker.com/5799695/five-b...s-on-the-cheap

http://www.wetxt.com/ (this one seems to have the extra calendar support you're looking for)

tons more: https://www.google.com/search?q=grou...ient=firefox-a

To-Do app from yadahome is an family organization app that would make party logistics pretty easy. It costs $5 per device.

http://www.yadahome.com/

Couldn't you do this all in google calendar?

Are all new ideas now going to have to be either an app or a website? This is one of the main problems in our current economy is that we stopped producing things. Sure we can make it easier for people to do things but eventually we have to have goods.

Ive had the idea forever to buy lottery tickets for people. You always hear about how soandso plays the same number every week and the one time they didnt it hits, yada yada. So many people who play the lotto live in fear of that. So id just offer a service where I play your numbers every week and you dont have to do a thing. No last second run to the store cuz you forgot to get this weeks ticket.

Only problem is I have no idea if its legal (im guessing not), if there would actually be a demand, or how I would make it so people trusted it. Basically if your numbers hit that I just wont keep the prize. Seems like there would have to be some significant legal documents to sign which is prolly too much work for most people and isnt something you could do over the internet.

Even better is that I know lotteries give a kickback to the place that sold the winning ticket, so if I somehow was authorized ticket seller thats extra money as well. And then just charge people say like 5% on all winners.


I also have an idea for a Dog Running business. Its not really an original idea because there are a few out there, but dog walkers are charging anywhere from $20-$35 an hour just to walk a dog, which is insane to me. So I think the advertising angle of a how much better a run is for your dog than a walk, and how much more benefit you get from the same amount of cash for the same amount of time spent, means people would choose my service over a dog walking service. and since there really arent many out there (ive done a bit of research and most cities dont even have anyone that offers this, while they have dozens of dog walking services) there would be no competition and I would have a distinct advantage over whats out there. I really have no idea how to start something like that tho.

There are lotteries that actually do that directly. They allow people to buy subscriptions, so a draw is never missed. I'm sure that not all lotteries do it, so you could still buy some people's lottery tickets when you're out running the dogs.

People are damn ridiculous about lotteries.

I wanted to do a site once that aggregated all of the past draws for the different lotteries (it wouldn't be very difficult to do). Then you just need to find a way to monetize all the dumb people who think that "oh, 36 hasn't been picked in 2 years, it's due!!!" either by selling access to more than the last, say, 10 drawings, or just plastering advertising all over the site.

There is a taxi app in Germany "MyTaxi" that is going through the roof. 500.000 Downloads in one year in Germany... They are expanding to all over Europe at the moment...

Too many people are focusing on a very small value proposition of some small app that does a very small service for a very select few people. Dream Big!

http://www.khanacademy.org/

Receive texts 1 hour before package arrives

I missed a signature required package delivery today. I call fedex and they tell me they will deliver between 8am and 7pm tomorrow...tilting. It would be nice if they could text me when they're on the way. I'm sure some senders would like to be texted when package arrives too.

Or they could just use the damn cel # on their form to call you and ask if they can leave the package or not, instead of making you drive to bum **** Egypt to pick it up. Bastards.

If they knew exactly what time they will deliver your package they would put it on the website instead of saying 8am and 7pm. It's not like they are trying to annoy you. But they don't know, either. They know it's our of their facility on the independently-owned subcontracted truck that drops off the package and that's it.

Here's an idea I'm actually executing at the moment...

Basically, I want to end the hassle involved with private bus charter.

Lets say you want to book a private bus for a friend's stag or somewhat, the current system looks something like this:

1. Search yellow pages for list of local bus companies
2. Call up bus company, give them details of trip
3. Wait for call-back with quote
4. Consider quote. Try another bus company.
5. Repeat until satisfied.
6. Handle organizing everyone to get them to turn up at the right time and place for the bus.

This can be a very time consuming process.

I want to make it really easy for someone to go to Big Bus Co's website (or my own website), fill in some details about their journey (eg. where they want to go, where they are leaving from and the travel dates), enter their credit card details and pay the money. You then get a page on the website with the details of the bus which you can post on your Facebook or whatever so that their friends know.

Booking a bus will be as easy as buying a book from Amazon. By facilitating this, I believe that I can make private bus hire a better experience for users while making it more profitable for charter companies at the same time.

I am a programmer (ex. poker player) and I have a lot done already. Hopefully will be launching soon. Company is called Busables.

Would love to hear what you guys think.

I am constantly running into a problem trying to staff my business. It is a minimum wage position and it can be real hit or miss with applicants. Because of this, it takes up a ton of my time and energy.

When I post on Craigslist, the results are always very sub par. I dont know if it is just because of the area I am in, but it seems like the people using Craigslist are (for the most part) bottom of the barrel. It would be over the top to list the position on Linkedin.

Do you think there is demand for something in the middle of the two? Obviously there are some legal discriminatory issues you have to avoid; but for the most part businesses could quickly scan over applicants based on their profile pic and info. The user could also quickly apply to several positions without having to go from business to business.

Staffing companies??

I would have thought that was overkill when I am targeting a 20 year old that wants to work 20 hours a week at minimum wage.

Am I wrong?

Staffing companies charge more than min. wage by a lot and are a PITA to deal with.

Try posting on junior college job boards.

I understand where you are coming from personally, and yes it probably is overkill in your situation.

My response was in regards to your idea of something between craigslist and linkedin, which would not provide a better alternative to a human qualifying the individual imo.

For your situation, what is the job you are looking for? If it is something that would work well for a college kid, you can spice it up as an internship and contact local schools to see who has lax policies and easily integrated internship programs. I went to a school that was considered hardass in every regard, and it was still very easy for local legit companies to get paid (and often unpaid) interns.

If it is a job that cannot provide any internship value at all (which I dont believe) there still is probably someone at a local school willing to fire a chain email for students that need a job.

Depends what you are hiring for, if you are hiring for any low wage (under 100k) job and not many of them, you will probably work with brand new employees at the staffing firm and they will be terrible.

It is just a cashier position.

I have gotten creative in the past and gotten help from teachers at the local high school, but when you need a new employee about once a month you quickly run out of resources.


I would try to put together a basic job board for <$10/hour positions, but I think getting the initial user base is going to be a real challenge. Kind of a chicken and egg problem.

Not sure how well the concept will work, but just a quick comment about your landing page: avoid duplicating the animated characters--they should all be unique imo.

that site is organised nicely......

Not sure if the landing page background image is just temporary, but it doesn't jive at all with your actual theme. Makes it looks like you're providing an app for getting your kids to the school bus on time or something.

That said the design is very good; super clean and well laid out. Good name too, btw.