The idea that interests me most is Uber for food. The number of times I've wanted Mexican food only to discover my local store doesn't deliver and my clothes stink so I don't want to go outside, too many times too count.
I bet there are number of startups already working on it. We have tons of startups (in last couple of years) that are 'airbnb" and 'uber' for some different problem.
That Seamless link didn't seem to work for me and as for those task services I wouldn't trust them for food. A service with guaranteed time delivery, service you can rely on is what would sell it for me.
Username charity sounds exciting to me. We are in early years of user driven web. Imagine what it would be 25 years down the line? I doubt people want to use their real names unless governments across the world regulate Internet and make it mandatory.
That would be heaven for me. I've been trying to do notes via Evernote and while it is fine and feature rich, it is not a good performer. There's no way to just open app and take notes!
I really do love all of these, but I hate knowing that few are viable, and few will ever be real products.
"Awesome ideas" are exactly why we built LaunchSky.com
-- a tool to quickly and effectively validate if an idea is truly viable (and needed).
If you go to LaunchSky.com now, we've locked off free invites, and have the submissions we'll be using for our launch -- but these are really good.
If the OP or any posters of the ideas on that medium page want a free credit to post it on LaunchSky.com -- email me: Vlad (at) DarwinApps.com and I'll hook it up with a free credit to LaunchSky for you.
Just screenshot the medium.com part of the post and send it from the email you'd like the free credit to go to.
Like Microsoft InfoPath? Or pretty much any business software with "workflow" in the feature list.
"E-mail with time function"
Like you can set an "expires" time in e-mails in Outlook?
How many more of these are "things which do exist, but searching for them and finding out about them is actually hard" rather than "things which don't exist at all"?
Vernor Vinge's programmer-archaeologist vocation was a pretty good prediction.
Things I wish sites would stop doing: changing articles on horizontal scroll events. Makes my laptop nub scroll completely unusable without jetting across 3+ articles.
The jpg format supports all kinds of textual metadata, so "write on the back of my photo" is theoretically a solved problem. I'm surprised to hear that there aren't mobile apps that make editing that metadata easy.
Never is a long time.
1) Will definitely exist in some form. Perhaps a slate-like device with relatively fast eInk display which you can connect a kb/mouse to.
2) I can see mobile SoC's becoming so cheap that you can probably personally hack together something like that for cheap in a couple of year's time. Then just buy Data from some reseller.
I was under the impression you could get a 4G brick from Sprint and use that as an access point. Unlimited data and all that. Still kind of insanely expensive, though, but hey, companies can own radio frequency.
I want to be able to enter a target dollar amount into a certain date on a calendar, then select a date at a time before that date, and have it calculate how much I have to save each week to reach that target. And have it auto-adjust the weekly amount when I miss a week now & again, or when I save more than the required amount sometimes, too.
I think it's great. I've always had trouble saving any money always desperately waiting for my next paycheck, and after only two months, I've saved more than I ever have.
It can't really replace a full bank though unless all you do is use a debit card for all your transactions (like me).
Email me at Joseph@JosephRobertBrown.com if you want an invite.
I'm really surprised that integration with external credit cards (and banks, but especially credit cards given their importance in the US) isn't on the top of their priority list. I understand that they'll miss out on the extra data they get by being partnered with their bank, but it would let me drop mint.com with its dated ui, and make it much easier to use the goals mechanism (and daily spending limits would be a lot more relevant). Alternatively they could just launch a Simple credit card, give me 1% cash back / rewards and I'd feel comfortable moving most of my spending onto their card, which would let me continue to maintain my credit score and extract a bit of that merchant fee.
If the entire recipient list isn't disclosed to the recipients, then there would be no need to randomize it. So, bcc meets his goal of not disclosing the particular order in which he entered the email addresses.
Granted, in rare cases, it is desirable to disclose all recipients' email addresses to each other, but I'd personally prefer it if that were the exception, rather than common practice.
> Granted, in rare cases, it is desirable to disclose all recipients' email addresses to each other
It might be rare for some people's use of email, but it's hardly rare. It's essential if it's group email and others in that group need to be able to chime-in to the rest of the group.
"bcc:" won't work if people need to be able to respond to the group.
but aside from that, I think that he really wants is not just a randomizer, but something that explicitly flags that fact that the 'to' field reflects a random ordering. Otherwise, how are the recipients to know it's a random ordering?
(that's a bit of a simplification, though. It might not be necessary if such randomizers were well-known and/or it became obvious from multiple of someone's group emails that their recipient ordering was random-looking).
wow... 'to randomizer'. That's quite a leap, to infer that because 2 email addresses are next to each other that those two people slept together. I guess my social and professional circles are way too narrow.
Perhaps rather than randomizing, they could be alphabetized?
Or... if someone actually writes back in shock that yellowrubberchicken@yahoo.com slept with hownowbrowncow@hotmail.com, just reply back that you have no idea what they're talking about?
Or, yeah, perhaps bcc in some cases if this is that much of a concern in your life?
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I'd just like the "Time Stopper", a lot of the rest of these could be solved without any effort if that existed.
Edit: Verified that the seamless link worked; don't know why that caused problems for you.
Especially as I move often, I really enjoy having the ability to stop promotional mail from the previous tenants.
That would be heaven for me. I've been trying to do notes via Evernote and while it is fine and feature rich, it is not a good performer. There's no way to just open app and take notes!
People are already putting every question they have into Google. Every email they send and receive. Every video they watch on YouTube.
Putting every little thought into a service by Google is just a horrifying thought.
My current solution is OneNote for skydrive.com + Microsoft's OneNote Android app which performs pretty well.
If you go to LaunchSky.com now, we've locked off free invites, and have the submissions we'll be using for our launch -- but these are really good.
If the OP or any posters of the ideas on that medium page want a free credit to post it on LaunchSky.com -- email me: Vlad (at) DarwinApps.com and I'll hook it up with a free credit to LaunchSky for you.
Just screenshot the medium.com part of the post and send it from the email you'd like the free credit to go to.
Like Microsoft InfoPath? Or pretty much any business software with "workflow" in the feature list.
"E-mail with time function"
Like you can set an "expires" time in e-mails in Outlook?
How many more of these are "things which do exist, but searching for them and finding out about them is actually hard" rather than "things which don't exist at all"?
Vernor Vinge's programmer-archaeologist vocation was a pretty good prediction.
But it has existed in Outlook for a decade or more, so people have been considering this same problem for a long time.
Yup there's already a field which could do the job just not quickly editable in your phone's camera app.
- an eInk display laptop for text only computing / document creation and max battery life
- 4G basic brick phone + wifi tethering
I have 5 invites if anyone needs one.
It can't really replace a full bank though unless all you do is use a debit card for all your transactions (like me).
Email me at Joseph@JosephRobertBrown.com if you want an invite.
Wouldn't this be cool: {=randomForest(A1:A1000,B1:H1000,...)} and out dumps your rf to the selected cells then {=predict(...)} etc.
Pretty sure I'm the only one who wants this.
>Email ‘To:’ field randomizer https://medium.com/products-i-wish-existed/5dc3f5cd08ab
For example, it hurts me inside that I cannot tell this guy to use "bcc:"
Granted, in rare cases, it is desirable to disclose all recipients' email addresses to each other, but I'd personally prefer it if that were the exception, rather than common practice.
It might be rare for some people's use of email, but it's hardly rare. It's essential if it's group email and others in that group need to be able to chime-in to the rest of the group.
but aside from that, I think that he really wants is not just a randomizer, but something that explicitly flags that fact that the 'to' field reflects a random ordering. Otherwise, how are the recipients to know it's a random ordering?
(that's a bit of a simplification, though. It might not be necessary if such randomizers were well-known and/or it became obvious from multiple of someone's group emails that their recipient ordering was random-looking).
Perhaps rather than randomizing, they could be alphabetized? Or... if someone actually writes back in shock that yellowrubberchicken@yahoo.com slept with hownowbrowncow@hotmail.com, just reply back that you have no idea what they're talking about?
Or, yeah, perhaps bcc in some cases if this is that much of a concern in your life?