Ask HN: What next? Seeking ideas for my next project

What industries are you interested in?

Hmmmm if you're at this stage, I recommend going to Open Data and Civic Hacking meetups. At least in Chicago I've been finding a very high ratio of important problems to technologists who are willing to tackle them. You'll have a blast, meet lots of interesting people, and actually do something that contributes to general welfare :).

Since these problems are so applied and the datasets can be varied, you would definitely not be at a loss for "large and difficult".

Hi there! If you like C, I'm working on a small (like REALLY small) virtual machine called Carp.

I've no idea what I'm going to do with it, so feel free to chip in!

http://github.com/tekknolagi/carp

Airbnb for meeting rooms :)

My idea is not that difficult to get to MVP, but here it is anyway: In a nutshell: an inverted ecommerce site, where you ask for the best phone under $200, no contract, and this and that are important to you, and people bid and tell you their recommendations and why (along with buy links / affiliate links).

Enterprise management for Macs and mobile devices - especially for companies without central offices, with a fair few remote workers, and with a mix of owned and BYOD.

Sure, there are systems out there, but they just don't appeal, somehow. (Sorry, it's a visceral thing.)

How about this? I see a lot of breaking news websites (or blogs that post a story whose details they "update as details come in" have no way (ok, maybe I just haven't come across it) of retaining their readers - a way to subscribe to subsequent updates. So that means busy Bob will either completely forget to come back to the story letter or that he will search for the story again and go read on a competing publication.

So maybe a way for people to subscribe to these "developing stories"? An example implementation in WordPress would be that it adds next to the publish button a checkbox for indicating that this is a developing story. On the user end, all such posts show normally but with an email input and relevant messaging informing the user that the article will be updated as details come in and that they can be notified of them.

Here are some consumer products I would like to see but don't want to build myself (mostly because I prefer working on enterprise instead of consumer products):

1. A better music discovery service. I've tried using Pandora, Spotify, Soundcloud, several radio stations, and other services. But so far none has given a satisfactory answer to "give me songs that are similar to this song". Spotify does an OK job at this, but the same songs keep repeating, and similarity seems to be defined mostly based on artist. But what I want is songs that actually sound similar, not stuff by the same artist. The best solution for me so far has been to search YouTube for mix videos (e.g. chillstep mix) and listen to it. However, constantly searching for new mixes and keeping the YouTube video open is quite annoying. I understand that the space is crowded, but the music discovery problem hasn't been solved at all. At least not for me.

2. A better way to organize my life and habits. I don't use calendar apps because they don't work the way I organize my life. I have my own system, done in a text editor: I have "template list" of tasks and habits such as exercise, meditate, project A, project B, book C, etc, ordered by "priority". These are ties to long-term OKRs. Each of those also has a time span associated with it (30min, etc). I organize my life by week, one file per week. Each weekly file contains all days of that week. I then put the above templates/blocks into the days, planning one week ahead. Many days look similar, defining what I call "habits" (another template). There are no absolute times, just relative times (e.g. tasks that are worth a total of 10h per day). Not having absolute times gives me flexibility in moving stuff around when needed. I manually check off the things that are done each day.

3. Algorithmic healthy meal optimization. I enjoy cooking healthy food and I get recipes from sites such as http://fitmencook.com/. I want to be able to define my intake of certain nutrients (XX protein, YY calories), and the service should give me recipes, minimizing my shopping list for different ingredients. In other words, achieve the right nutrition while buying the minimum amount of different products, making shopping easy and convenient.

4. This one is a bit fuzzy, but if done right I believe it can change the world. Come up with a way to meet "relevant" people (let's say in terms of business or hobbies, but could also be personal) in real life that is not creepy. I believe the key elements are taking away the fear of rejection (e.g. Tinder), semi-anonymity (until all parties mutually agree), taking away friction to initiate something (e.g. people are willing to attend organized events/activities, but not organize something themselves, also due to fear of rejection), overlapping social graph connections, and a way to make it non-creepy. How to put these elements together? I'm not sure, but something is there.

My new venture may be of interest to you: I launched http://www.dimeideas.com to help people with drive and motivation but not as much direction.

With a successful exit under your belt and a large tech co name on the resume, go out and raise a $1.2M seed for the "Foursquare for time". I'll happily be user #1.

There are many people both in my professional life and personal life that I'd like to connect with more often, but not enough to warrant a pre-scheduled meeting. I wish I could "check in" to being free (say around the lunch hour), and allow that status to be seen by certain people in my "yeah, we should get together again soon" bucket. There's no need for them to say no or come up with an excuse. If they're free and nearby, we hook up and I don't eat lunch alone. If not, no worries...I needed to eat lunch anyway.

Here's your deck: https://speakerdeck.com/chadokruse/10speak-pitch-deck-the-mo.... See this thread for why we failed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6931130

If you have an interest in democratizing philanthropy (similar to how AngelList democratized angel investing), always interested in meeting new co-conspirators: https://angel.co/kyn