Hey guys,

I'm working on an advanced version of Pandora Radio for music snobs. The idea is to rate the Artist Radio stations relatively on a 1-5 scale (as opposed to just a massive list of stations). I'm having a release soon. Not sure if I'm allowed to post it here but either way stay tuned.

Would also love some feedback on how others who are music obsessed keep track of the 100+ artists they like to listen to. I haven't found a solution which is why I created this web app.

A little macabre, but here in Canada, we're always being reminded about signing a donor card when getting a license. I'll assume the reminding is mandated by the government.

Instead of giving a check for $500, the government should provide a tax credit of say $100 each year to anyone who's signed the organ donor card. Upon death/donation of organs, the deceased's family would receive a $500 (or whatever) tax break.

Surprised it's not being done already, can only assume there's some issue I'm not seeing.

One more tax break idea: the percentage of the population who votes is an issue in Canada: Think it's in the low 60s. It's been suggested we implement a law like Australia for compulsory voting. Id much rather see incentive in the form of a tax break.

Guess this is more for a politics thread that this. Apologies for the tangent.

If i'm living in NYC, i'd like an app where I could 'advertise' that in two nights time I'll be preparing a four course meal and would be looking to get a group of six people over to my house. Menu could be posted, along with feedback/reviews of past meals, along with the cost.

So we all hate trying to teach our parents computer basics right? Within 30 seconds every last drop of emotional baggage accumulated over 18 years comes out in full fury. My Dad launches into his speech about how he's right-brained not left-brained (or the other way w/e) and I instantly want to gouge out my brain with an oyster fork. My mom knows I'm going to lecture her about not installing random software off the internet, and immediately gets super-defensive (doesn't stop her from doing it of course).

However, I believe teaching someone else's parents would be much easier, minus all the emotional baggage. So how about an app where people can trade parental computer help? I'll teach your mom how to attach an image to email, and you can teach my dad how to copy and paste. (Yes my Dad still can't copy and paste. He literally retypes anything he wants to copy. )

Note: I realize this idea is ridiculous. It literally came to me in a dream last night. But I still think it's kind of interesting.

suzzer,
Your idea has a lot of merit, but not as a trade. A free help app. With options for paid help like freelancer.com or something (and you need to give 5 lots of free help with good ratings to bid for the paid stuff).

If someone could help my Mom or Dad w/o me actually having to do it, I would give them plenty of free stuff.

FWIW I like the idea and my GF likes it as well. If we were in the area where it's available - we would use it.


...damn, now I want to share my idea as well.

An airbnb/amazon style approach to the Fast Casual market. The platforms sellers could consist of professionals, entrepreneurs in the food space or a stay at home mom who makes incredible lasagna. The requirements for the listings will be standardized, could include things like pictures, prices, serving size, ingredients, pickup time, etc

Personally, I would love a marketplace full of moms who cook dinner and I would use it every night for dinner. Every mom is really good at making something. So if she's cooking lasagna on Wednesday night anyway, she can just make more lasagna for her to-go orders from the marketplace. She can have requirements such as order before 3pm, pickup between 6-7pm, etc. I think with the low overhead of marketplace sellers, the marketplace could produce delicious food at great prices.

Jesus, yes. Please follow through

Starting a hedge fund. My goal which will someday become a reality.

Real-money slots machines and electronic table games on commercial aircrafts (in the headrest monitors or available on a separate entertainment device). The audience is massive, almost 700 million passengers flew in 2015. Seems like a no-brainer to me. Who wouldn't play penny slots instead of being bored out of their minds on a 6 hour flight? That being said, I have no idea if it's actually possible with current gaming laws or what would need to happen if not. Also not sure how to personally monetize it. Supply the airlines with the software and split the rake? Sell the idea to an established corporation like Harrah's (how does this even work? Can I even do that if I've posted it publicly on the internet?)?

Could offer patrons a free drink for gambling $x, bonus miles for gambling $x, etc. Just feels like a great fit. No idea what to do with the idea though, if it's even actionable.

Offer especially enticing bonuses during turbulence

Maybe it's already a thing in the US (what isn't) but it's not in my country: Offering pen & paper RPG "workshops" to schools (like 4-7th grade?). I think playing those at that age can teach kids a lot of stuff in a, well, playful way.

Not just having them play by themselves, as they will suck at being game masters - a lot of the value comes from having a "professional", older one, as well as by designing the adventures with specific goals in mind in the first place.

Wouldn't even have to be swords / dragons, either - you could set it in like Smurftown, Auschwitz, Rome, a court of law, hostile work environment or whatever context would be most fitting.

Don't think it's a money maker but I do think role-playing in schools would be a cool thing to have.

Here's my other idea:

I've been trying to learn guitar (to little avail, but that's besides the point) and the number of resources on the internet are scattered and endless. Wouldn't it be great if I could go to a site and see all the available lessons in one place?

So my idea, for lack of a better term, is a lesson hub. A site where someone who wants to learn [guitar, piano, woodworking, basketweaving, knitting, drawing, cooking, anything] can go and view categorized content uploaded by teachers. So I would go to the beginner guitar section and look at the best reviewed beginner guitar lessons. Maybe I want to learn an individual song or really focus on a specific technique, there can be sub-categories for that kind of thing.

Some teachers have their own websites but there is a lot of good, lesser known content out there on YouTube as well. This site would give teachers without the resources to run their own site a better outlet than YouTube, in which a search for "guitar lessons" will bring up millions of hits that include 8 year olds covering ****ty One Direction songs. The odds that someone finds your content is lower than if they're able to go to Guitar Lessons > Beginners > Multi-part Series.

Highly rated teachers could set up a paywall to access their content, in addition to getting YouTube view revenue, that the site could take a cut from. It could integrate with something like TwitchTV and provide live lessons in which teachers get stream revenue that the site takes a cut of. I think there are a few ways to monetize it.

Maybe the market isn't actually there and this type of site isn't needed. Thoughts?

Animated kid's movie plot: It's far in the future. No one works. Every kid gets a robot on their 12th birthday. The kid is responsible for maintaining, programming and finding meaningful work for the robot. Kids gets to keep anything to robot makes.

One kid gets a buggy dud robot that can't do anything right, but somehow because of his special screwiness ends up saving the world.

There are charities where people volunteer to do this for free.

Those people must have the patience of Job.

The Book of Poker

A beautifully presented coffee table book detailing and celebrating the full history of poker, from the invention of the game, road gamblers, early days of the World Series, pre-Moneymaker boom, the Moneymaker boom, rise of 'TV pros', the early days and boom of Internet poker, Black Friday, profiles of the most (in)famous poker players, both live and online, breakdowns of some of the most important/interesting/biggest pots ever played.

... Put green felt on the back of the book along with some legs that pop out and you've got a mini poker table!

heh, that's actually a good idea and a fantastic episode of Seinfeld

did some quick research and there's definitely no $$ in coffee table books

still it would be a fun project and is something I'd like to create/own and share with the greater poker community

Expert Village + $$$

I remember somewhere on the first few pages of this thread someone said something about a meal prep/shopping app that optimizes weekly meal plans.

Can't remember if this is exactly the same as that idea but how about an app that optimizes weekly meal plans based on ingredients within recipes and your/your family's nutritional needs.

You select your calories needed per day and the app gives you meal ideas for breaskfast, lunch, dinner and snacks for the week that amount to 2300kcal/day or whatever your input. Nothing new about that, there are plenty of apps that do it.

But what about optimising the meal plan to reduce food wastage and cost.

For example when I look up a recipe, it needs 150g of ground beef, half a lemon and half a bunch of parsley or whatever, supermarket does not sell in those quantities so there is a lot of wastage.

What if the app can provide you with a weekly meal plan that would use up a total of reasonable quantities for each ingredients in increments that you can actually find at a supermarket (eg total for the week would need 500g of ground beef, 250g of pasta, whole bunch of parsely and 2 lemons over 5 meals.)

It would require a fairly large database of recipes - but with the thousands of food blogs out there that each have hundreds of recipe it shouldn't be too difficult to populate it.

edit: alexeimartov initially posted this here: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...&postcount=118

any feedback as of now (5+ years later, do any apps that do this exist now)

So I came up with an idea the other day to build something, and it turns out it is basically just hitting production in China.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...300138554.html

How hard do you think it is to build a prototype router that can be used as a CDN, that you also push regular security updates to, use open source software throughout it, etc. ?

Do you think a good incubator or high end vc would accept you with such an idea and a prototype or is it a waste of time?

The basic idea is to create a home router for people that doesn't have awful security, and in return, you contribute to a CDN that we can scale massively. Something like $50 with $50 mail-in rebate would be the idea. Basically give them away for free and provide secure networking equipment as a counter service to a nice CDN.

I could probably come up with an idea. As for direction, I don't know. I was looking at the minimum wage in CA. You can bypass this with independent contractors. so how about a solar pizza place with electric cars, and 5 owners of the business. Thus you all work 20 hours a week. You will have a competitive advantage to those that use gas cars and have to pay electric/gas bill and salaries at $15 per hour.

Not a troll. If you are an independent contractor you can bypass the minimum wage laws in the United States. Ireland the minimum wage is still low. Do you want to work out of home or do you want your own shop? Do you have space. Do you want to manufacture or service? What are your interests?

Rather than have all these cities sprawled all over the beautiful landscape. Why not have one building 1 mile by 1 mile, 10 stories tall.

5280x5280x10 = 279 million square feet. Say 200 million is used for apartments and the average apartment size is 982 square feet you have 200,000 apartments. 2.3 people live per average apartment unit. 460,000 people.

The apartment should be placed near the ocean to avoid heating and cooling costs and provide best recreation. The top can be a park or it can be used for transportation. If covered with efficient solar panels could generate 6060 watt hours a day per person. That should be enough for all heating, cooling, desalination of water, treatment and reuse of wastewater, recycling of all garbage. A closed system. The treated sewage can be use to grow a massive orchard of orange and fruit trees. With a harbor, almost all other foods can be obtained from the sea.