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One global login with a very good security. I do not want one login to Facebook, one to Twitter, one to Amazon, one to Gmail, one to Digg, etc. I only want to remember one username and one password - not hundreds of them.
Submitted by: Anonymous
Learn a new language while playing a game. Maybe a GTA-clone where you do different missions and learn a new language at the same time.
Submitted by: Anonymous
A new type of fast shaving machine. The evolution of shaving machines has stopped and new machines are slower than old ones.
Submitted by: Anonymous
Why can't the store mail the receipt to my Email after I have bought something? They already know my name if I pay with my Visa-card.
Submitted by: Anonymous
The 4-hour-web-browser inspired by the book "The Four Hour Workweek." A web browser that limits the number of pages you can view each day to save time. Do you really need to visit Facebook 5 times each day? If you try to visit Facebook 2 times the web browser says No!
Submitted by: Anonymous
A car door that opens upwards like the Lamborghini AND sideways like a normal car AND backwards like a bus. If you are on a tight parking lot you want the doors to open upwards, but if you are in a garage you want the doors to open sideways because of the low roof.
Submitted by: Anonymous
Joshua Klein on the intelligence of crows - Train crows to help pick up garbage
Submitted by: Anonymous
A blog or a community that is called (something like) "Eco show off". The goal is to get people to share their eco efforts. Like using old things for a new problem instead of throwing it away. Or how to save water... Thinks like that. Half of the money the site makes could be use for eco projects.
Submitted by: Danny
A wearable sports beverage in a recyclable/disposable pack. Like a Camelback crossed with a Capri Sun and Gatorade.
Submitted by: Anonymous
Like the book Good to Great but with websites - why do some websites make it and others don't?
Submitted by: Anonymous
A book in the same spirit as A Book Apart but with website security explaining issues like SQL injections.
Submitted by: Anonymous
A way to get around software such as AdBlock if you want to use AdSense on your website. Or maybe develop ads people want to see so they do not want to use AdBlock. Spotify for websites.
Submitted by: Anonymous
Convert classic games to the iPad - share the profits with the original company. I would love to play the old Command & Conquer on the iPad - not the new Red Alert clone currently available for the iPad on the Appstore.
Submitted by: Anonymous
Lower the price of food in a grocery store by selling ads. Maybe Apple can sponsor the apples in the store?
Submitted by: Anonymous
Slow food fast. Like a fast food restaurant but you are selling "slow food" in a fast way.
Submitted by: Anonymous
People with little computer knowledge have trouble to find the computers they need. One often gets the question: Which is the best computer for gaming? Which is the best computer for the lowest price? Create a service helping these people find what they need.
Submitted by: Anonymous
Many developers are male and they make apps for mostly male activities such as golf. I think one can find many ideas for apps targeting mostly female activities.
Submitted by: Anonymous
A better start-up marketplace, almost like a mini stock exchange for start-ups, open only to qualified investors.
Submitted by: Anonymous
A combination of Minecraft and Counter-Strike. Randomly generated levels may result in a more realistic type of game-play. In a real war, you can't practice on the battlefield in advance.
Submitted by: Anonymous
The best free replacement software. A website explaining how to replace a software such as Photoshop with a free similar one.
Submitted by: Anonymous
A way to follow professionals in their daily routine. If you want to follow a writer, you can see when and how the writer you are following is doing different tasks. If you are following a grade A student, you might find motivation to study when he is studying.
Submitted by: Anonymous
People think it is hard to keep track of the different time zones - especially when changing from Daylight Saving Time. Some countries ignore Daylight Saving Time and some countries change it on different dates. One could probably create a world clock?
Submitted by: Anonymous
Free stuff for startups - but with an obligation to pay back when/if the startup is profitable.
Submitted by: Anonymous
Solutions to current events, according to different experts and amateurs, in one place - the different solutions to the Afghanistan war, the Euro crisis, world hunger, etc.
Submitted by: Anonymous
A "competitor" to iTunes - I don't think iTunes is good when searching for new apps and trying to find out which apps are good. I need a new website with better reviews. The site has to link back to iTunes when one wants to buy the apps.
Submitted by: Anonymous
A way to make sure that each person can only create one account on a website - without having to sacrifice anonymity.
Submitted by: Anonymous
A way to get a less messy css-document(s).
Submitted by: Anonymous
A trading/investing simulator based on historical data - not data happening right now. With the possibility to trade real-time on historical data.
Submitted by: Anonymous
Website showing different css combinations like a gallery and explaining how they were made.
Submitted by: Anonymous
A possibility to dicuss current world events globally. Is the war in Afghanistan good or bad according to the people in Afghanistan?
Submitted by: Anonymous
Common mistakes and lessons learned when you are new into developing software
Submitted by: Anonymous
A service similar to mint.com that works with UK and maybe even German banks
Submitted by: Anonymous
90% of everthing tweeted is nonsense (Including this) - could someone do a filter? MerryXmax
Submitted by: Anonymous via Morten Lund's Twitter
A way to organize and comment code on the iPad. You can't run the code but you send it to the iPad from the computer and go through it every evening in your bed and write notes. The process is explained in the book: The Best of edw519
Submitted by: Anonymous
Like cnn.com but the website remembers which stories you have already looked at and removes it from your view.
Submitted by: Anonymous
A software which really cleans your computer and removes everything old unnecessary crap. Services like Advanced System Care removes some old stuff - but not everything. The service also checks if the computer needs the file you want to delete so you can easier delete unnecessary folders and files on your computer you don't need. Currently, if you uninstall a software som folders and files remains in your computer forever.
Submitted by: Anonymous
People are still having trouble to stop biting their nails. Solve this problem.
Submitted by: Anonymous
The QVC of the internet. Ustream.tv and Justin.tv are free platforms that replicate live television. Create an online QVC and talk about interesting things.
Submitted by: Anonymous via the book Crush It
A tea blog similar to Wine Library TV.
Submitted by: Anonymous via the book Crush It
The sports center of the web using Ustream.tv and Justin.tv. A show running 24 hours a day by sport interested amateurs.
Submitted by: Anonymous via the book Crush It
Online book reviews by independent bookstores.
Submitted by: Anonymous via the book Crush It
A search bar for your apartment - or a way to organize your apartment online.
Submitted by: Anonymous
From Twitter: "Are there any other games similar to Temple Run? I wish it had different themes, like space, cause ive played it SO much."
Submitted by: Anonymous
From Twitter: "I wish there was a Shazam for random foreign movies playing in the background in restaurants and bars."
Submitted by: Anonymous
From Twitter: "I wish I could dance like Ryan Good." Online dance education.
Submitted by: Anonymous
From Twitter: "I wish LA had a football team."
Submitted by: Anonymous
From Twitter: "I wish android phones had Temple Run."
Submitted by: Anonymous
From Twitter: "I wish I could play the guitar.. or still play the piano." Online musical instrument education.
Submitted by: Anonymous
From Twitter: "I Have A Serious Spending Problem.. Lol, I wish I knew how to save money!" Online collaborate saving education.
Submitted by: Anonymous
The Future of Journalism. A new kind of news aggregator similar to Digg.
Submitted by: Anonymous via Y Combinator
New Paths Through Product Space. A new type of online store.
Submitted by: Anonymous via Y Combinator
Things Built on Twitter. How can you combine Twitter and a new company?
Submitted by: Anonymous via Y Combinator
New Ways to Use Live Video. Did you know that Justin.TV enables startups to use their infrastructure for free?
Submitted by: Anonymous via Y Combinator
Development on Handhelds. There seems a reasonable chance that handheld devices will displace laptops as development machines in the same way that laptops displaced desktops.
Submitted by: Anonymous via Y Combinator
iPad Applications. Soon, there will need to be iPad alternatives for all the things people now do on PCs. How can big companies use the iPad?
Submitted by: Anonymous via Y Combinator
Ephemeralization Apps. What can we save people from having to do with an app running on a tablet?
Submitted by: Anonymous via Y Combinator
Kill Hollywood. Hollywood appears to have peaked. What is going to kill the movie and TV industries?
Submitted by: Anonymous via Y Combinator
Kevin Rose - Social Credit Cards
Submitted by: Anonymous
"This is a goldmine for smart people - who understands that Tradeshift is The Social Mother Graph of B2B in very short time. And you can leverage - the acces - just like Zynga leveraged FACEBOOK. Get moving out there... Im dead serious when I say that this is the biggest opportunity I have ever seen."
Submitted by: Anonymous via Morten Lund
"I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning, just like the the digital one."
Submitted by: Anonymous via the book about Steve Jobs
From Twitter: "I wish there was a way to read all my tweets, all the way from day 1."
Submitted by: Anonymous
"A conversation with a small fund manager provided the following insights: CRM s*cks and is a market there for the taking, marketing platforms don't exist, in house communication tools are costly for smaller funds and end of month reporting is expensive and ugly."
Submitted by: Anonymous via Hacker News
"What is needed is a new kind of stock exchange, designed to trade in the stocks of companies that are organized to sustain long-term thinking." Many companies today are going for short-term profitability and short-term growth.
Submitted by: Anonymous via the book The Lean Startup
Re-invent the furniture industry. My chair looks and acts almost the same as a chair which is more than 400 years old.
Submitted by: Anonymous
When someone at a company retires, he brings with him home his knowledge which may stretch over 40 years or more. Find a way to "print" that knowledge down so the company can save it. Maybe an internal Facebook where people can store their knowledge.
Submitted by: Anonymous
A Web-service where you can discuss books after you have read it and where you can find more information on the same topic.
Submitted by: Anonymous
FeeFighters in other countries than US.
Submitted by: Anonymous
Combine Wikipedia and CodeAcademy in a way to make it easier for someone to learn a new language.
Submitted by: Anonymous
Create more Sellatons and less Hackatons - it is more important to learn how to sell you product/service.
Submitted by: Anonymous
When using iBooks, you can click on a difficult word and get a definition of it. Does the same service exist for a webpage? One should also be able to translate the word.
Submitted by: Anonymous
Google light: A way to rank a short list of links - the most popular link should be at the top
Submitted by: Anonymous
A new way to buy clothes on the Internet - you can already buy them on the Internet - but many people prefer to go to the store because they are a bit unsure about the size of the shoes and dresses if you buy them on the Internet. If you get the wrong size, you have to send them back and that's not a fun way to spend your time.
Submitted by: Anonymous
Store stuff you want to remember on the Internet and share it with others and other users can follow what you want to remember.
Submitted by: Anonymous
Dentist/medic + spa. There's a dentist in Thailand that looks like a spa. A dentist in the "West" is a less fun experience to visit.
Submitted by: Anonymous
A tool that tells us exactly what we missed when we went offline for an hour.
Submitted by: Anonymous via TechCrunch
A better RSS reader for a niche audience of serious news consumers.
Submitted by: Anonymous via TechCrunch
Where are the magical email auto-responders that answer, tag and organize emails for us? Where are the intelligent calendars that integrate with messaging systems (social, email and otherwise), capable of reading text-based communications and turning them into appointments and meetings? Where are the automaters, the filters, the noise reducers? Where's the Siri for everything? We need tools that require less time, less training and, let's get real here - less typing.
Submitted by: Anonymous via TechCrunch
One programming language to rule them all - why do we still have to learn PHP, Java, C++, C#, C, JavaScript, JQuery, etc?
Submitted by: Anonymous
Somebody please, for the love of god, fix shipping/couriers. Read more about the problem in the link below.
Submitted by: Anonymous via Hacker News
Twitter app to plot tweets by the number of followers (x) and following (y) a person has.
Submitted by: Anonymous via Hacker News
Using css3 or html5 or something, find out how to make text appear as if it's flying towards you - users will watch the text fly towards them and read it.
Submitted by: Anonymous via Hacker News
Twitter app game - complete the tweet - the app will grab tweets from the public timeline and then display them to the user with words missing.
Submitted by: Anonymous via Hacker News
Twitter tool to analyze when a user should tweet to get the most coverage/views - take the users followers and analyze each follower to find out the average time they tweet.
Submitted by: Anonymous via Hacker News
Dream job maker - users would log on to the site, input as much details about the dream job as possible - then the service would analyze everything and work out whether the dream job is feasible for that person.
Submitted by: Anonymous via Hacker News
Dream job maker - users would log on to the site, input as much details about the dream job as possible - then the service would analyze everything and work out whether the dream job is feasible for that person.
Submitted by: Anonymous via Hacker News
The smart TV remote - software that records when a user switches channel - then learn the user and automatically switch channels after completing the learning process.
Submitted by: Anonymous via Hacker News
Music powered energy - tweaking the learning experience for a new instrument. Link a piano to a device which is set to throttle your electricity in a certain room - the more you play the piano notes correctly according the current selected song on the device, then the more electricity is allowed to pass through into the kitchen to cook your meal.
Submitted by: Anonymous via Hacker News
Google sites for event sites. Djangocon has a website, and only actually updates it a little before and a little after the event. They don't have anything particularly demanding for a generic web service, but there are things that an event needs that no other site does. Ideally, it needs to handle the irregularity of the event. Last time I looked at the Djangocon site to see when Djangocon was hitting next, all I saw was details on the event that had already passed.
Submitted by: Anonymous via Hacker News
Paparazzi - Like an FPS, but you have a camera and you have to take a famous person's photo. Each level is quite short, because the famous person is travelling.
Submitted by: Anonymous via Hacker News
SMS ordering system for local cafes and restaurants. Give businesses the means to publish a simple menu and let registered customers order by SMS. Delivery and payment details are held on file so only the menu items need to be sent by SMS. Perfect for ordering lunch at work.
Submitted by: Anonymous via Hacker News
Group complaints/protests - like kickstarter for complaints. People can create complaints stating. Other consumers pledge their support and if the company fails to act, people take action together.
Submitted by: Anonymous via Hacker News
Volunteer dating - allow charities to host and publicize events where volunteers can help out one evening/afternoon. Singles in the area can register their interest and then go along to meet other singles at the event. No pressure, casual environment and a great way to meet new people.
Submitted by: Anonymous via Hacker News
Offline ad-network: match up people with interesting locations to display ads in the physical world with companies looking for unique advertising. You would only accept listings that have something unique/newsworthy about them.
Submitted by: Anonymous via Hacker News
Checklist marketplace. Checklists are very useful for reducing human error/capturing best practice. You could create a marketplace where experts in particular fields publish lists of do's and dont's (along with explanatory notes) that can be sold as PDF's for a few dollars. The publishers get revenue, the readers get the benefit of years of experience and expert knowledge.
Submitted by: Anonymous via Hacker News
Software for credit unions. I haven't investigated this one much but I met someone who ran a credit union that was complaining about how expensive/outdated all the existing software was.
Submitted by: Anonymous via Hacker News
A consulting firm that would offer a full service Kickstarter package. You'd get the creator with a great product a website, a high quality video, good donor incentives, great copy, high quality photographs, help marketing etc. In exchange you could take a % of their funding if successful, just like Kickstarter does.
Submitted by: Anonymous via Hacker News
Freelancer deals. The basic gist is that the site would sell the services of freelance designers, developers, writers, marketers, etc, Groupon style. Say you're a good designer but you're looking for work. You normally charge $60/hr. You could offer a special to this site to do 2 hours of work for X people for $20 instead.
Submitted by: Anonymous via Hacker News
Teach me. One on one live video music/gaming/etc lessons. The basic idea is that you'd pick a niche and have a site of professionals in that niche. Say musicians for example. You'd be able to pick a guitar player that you like the style of and the site would allow you to take live streaming video lessons for $X/hr. The instructor would be able to give you immediate and instant feedback, etc. You could do this for a lot of industries I'd imagine.
Submitted by: Anonymous via Hacker News
Safemap Pull crime blotter data, and deliver the least dangerous route between two locations. Offer a "danger score" for locations.
Submitted by: Anonymous via Hacker News
A coffee machine without a filter.
Submitted by: Anonymous
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