Ask HN: What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'?
Please see http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html and feel free to add your own.
1. Spotify (for the music element) 2. Chrome 3. Twitter/BBC News 4. service-now.com 5. 37 signals 6. ?? 7. ?? 8. Match/Plentyoffish 9. Facebook 10. eBay 11. Google Docs/ Zoho 12. Adwords/Adsense 13. University of Phoenix 14. ?? 15. ?? 16. Bing 17. Paypal 18. ChromeOS 19. AWS/Rackspace 20. Thefind 21. Mint/Quickbooks 22. Google Docs/Zoho 23. ?? 24. ?? 25. Gumtree/Facebook 26. ?? 27. ?? 28. Gmail with filtering 29. Too many to list 30. ??
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This is one of those cases where I see real use for Google Wave.
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I have several friends who have gotten an endless series of dates from there. I've only met one person from OkCupid, but she was pretty amazing.
All the other sites I've tried (otakubooty, aff, cl, some other ones that have already died) have been completely useless, except for some niche bdsm ones ^-^.
for example, for "what did andrew cooke do?" - http://www.powerset.com/explore/go/what-did-andrew-cooke-do%... - the third response is "designed an algorithm" (which is what i was looking for).
it's not wonderful, by any means, but that does illustrate the semantic-ness of what they are doing (imho).
I'm a news hound. And, I started http://Newsley.com to try and find a solution to the new news problem that I had. I picked financial and economic news because it's an interest of mine that will hold my attention. Besides, advertising rates are much better for financial and economic keywords than they are for funny videos or cute cat pictures.
My hypothesis, social news sites have done a pretty good job of finding and highlighting interesting and new content (Hacker News, Reddit, Slashdot, Digg, Metafilter, etc..) But, I don't think that anyone has really done a good job of offering great news recommendations yet. The solutions we've seen so far are generally human editor (newspapers), moderators (slashdot), or collaborative filtering (reddit, digg, HN).
My goal is to build a community of people interested in great financial and economic news and analysis, and then try to build a great personalized news recommendation engine for them.
There are other sites working on the news recommendation systems. Twitter sort of fills that bill, MeHive has been trying a heavy indexing/algorithmic approach, but I haven't really been happy with what the recommendations they've been able to offer me yet.
Also, if any body else is doing news recommendations, ping me. I'd be really interested in talking.
Once I have enough users to keep the site afloat, I'm going to start offering recommendations. There's a lot more to come.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering
The Android app, Google Goggles is really worth checking out. It really is a phenomenal idea. I hope they work hard at refining it.
One thing that might be hard to replicate: firearms, ammo, etc. are serious things, e.g. you can't transfer a firearm across state lines without going through a licensed dealer and getting a background check. In the cultural sense reputation on GunBroker.com is treated very seriously; I'm not sure how this could be replicated in other areas, including ones where prices of items are lower.
Since the endeavor is structured around corporate sponsorships, Innovative in Education can afford to pay professors and graduate students appropriately to create high quality content and instruct live online. No complicated login process to access the live content; users can just tune into the classroom page at class time, and view the embedded livestream. (Of course, content will be archived as well, a la OCW).
Actually, on that note: there seem to be good streaming solutions for live action video (high FPS, high compression) and for slides (low FPS, low compression for detail clarity), but I have not found a solution that allows the broadcaster to selectively switch between the two optimizations. If anyone knows of such a streaming solution, please share. Thanks!
1. in some countries, PP may hold the balance of power in parliament, and will thus be able to join whichever coalition offers the best concessions to their points of view. This may well be the outcome of the next general election in Sweden.
2. other parties, seeing how many votes PP is getting, and they are potentially losing, will tend to move their policies to what PP endorses. A historical example of this sort of process working is after the 1989 European election in the UK, where the Green Party got 15% of the vote; the main parties immediately started copying their polices, or at least giving lip service to them. When Pirate Parties start doing well in elections, we are likely to see the same effect.
3) news.ycombinator.com The comment section is almost invariably better than 95% of articles in the NYTimes.
4) Google Apps
5) Salesforce
6) HelpSpot?
7) An app that could automatically convert a web site created in Dreamweaver or some custom solution into a wordpress blog.
13) wikipedia
20) google search, site:news.ycombinator.com best laptop (etc)
22) DabbleDB
They seem promising (I know one of the founders personally) but things are going slower than the impression I originally got. One of their products (Gtriage) is already out though. Basically they're doing data mining on people's inboxen.