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- title: Energy Efficiency Toys
  desc: A set of toys for 10 year olds themed around energy efficiency and conservationism. Like Captain Planet but better
  comments:
    - similar... Recycle Hero (phone game which teaches recycling)

- title: Dependency Visualizer
  desc: A visualizer which depicts how intricately each team in a pipeline-driven company are coupled based on any of these metrics
  details:
    - emails/messages exchanged between team members
    - number of distinct data sources used by members of both teams
    - JIRA tickets containing members of multiple teams
    - amount of inter-dependent code (idk how this is possible)

- title: Chrome Search Expansion
  desc: A chrome extension or add on which searches all your tabs for query text at once i.e. 10 stackoverflow tabs

- title: Vim Keybindings Everywhere
  desc: OS support for vim keybindings in all text inputs

- title: Universal Message App
  desc: Single messaging app that uses the preferred medium for the person you are contacting without you having to think about it
  details:
    - add e2e encryption to the whole thing if both parties opt in
    - run pleb messaging apps in a sandbox inside universal app
    - use computer vision and fake user input on pleb app screens to avoid reverse engineering protocols

- title: Shared Resource Pool for X
  desc: Owners of item X (car, house, etc) can share/borrow X from fellow X owners
  details:
    - Uber/getaround but only for car owners
    - Airbnb but only for homeowners
    - Owners get paid to share underutilized resources when they are away or not using them

- title: Virtual Monitors
  desc: Create virtual monitors and desktops using a VR headset and place them in space/environment based on the context

- title: Teeth 2.0
  desc: Coat your teeth with some magical nonstick surface so you no longer need to brush

- title: Conveying issues by telling stories
  desc: Children learn values and ideas from stories and from the characters in them. Any global issue can be transformed into a story to gain stickiness.
  details:
    - religions convey values through stories
    - Super Sproutz conveys healthy eating habits by making strong, sticky characters from healthy foods

- title: Receipt holder which solicits feedback
  desc: Small lcd screen mounted inside a receipt holder which asks one or two brief questions with 1 to 5 star responses
  details:
    - the world of big data doesn't know exactly what kind of dishes and tastes each individual likes yet
    - by providing specific descriptions of items, we may be able to help customers identify dishes they will enjoy more accurately, feedback is the outcome variable (not tip)

- title: Fantasy football for any industry
  desc: Competitive draft style fantasy game for politics, oscars, etc.

- title: Chip credit cards as identity keys
  desc: Use a cheap chip credit card reader like a 2 factor key... bad idea, interesting problem
  details:
    - Chip credit cards add security to in person transactions b/c they produce a dynamic key, but this doesn't help online credit card security

- title: One place for broken phone screens
  desc: The most common phone problems are probably screen breaks, but the advice on what to do is disparate. Consolodate it and SEO the shit out of it

- title: Pressure Sensor Insoles
  desc: Put pressure sensors in shoe soles to measure when/how people step
  details:
    - to measure flat footedness
    - to count steps/measure impact better

- title: Localized player matching in games
  desc: So many people on the subway, waiting in lobbies, and sitting in public places spend time playing games. Why not build a service which matches players against other players nearby so they can use their interaction in the game to interact in real life.

- title: Better Parental Controls
  desc: Kids have access to the entire internet and parental control tools are easy to bypass and have a lot of false positives. Machine learn / personally approve websites for kids under 10 and provide a hardware firewall to filter based on MAC address so little hacker kids can't circumvent it by looking shit up on google

- title: Adaptive Road Material
  desc: In subtropical and tropical areas, water permeable concrete is used for roads to keep driving safe in rainy weather. Develop a ridiculously expensive technology to build heated roads for colder climates that can withstand thousands of cold/hot temperature cycles

- title: Mesh Hotspot Connectivity
  desc: In areas where certain carriers have spotty service, piggyback off of surrounding people's service, jumping through multiple points if necessary. Any overcharging will be covered by the company/users who piggybacked off of your connection

- title: Hair 2.0
  desc: Replace hair follicles with UFB (universal follicle bus) sockets so you can change your hair color, style, volume, etc at will and with the provided API

- title: Look at the shitty thing my kid made
  desc: Takes shitty drawings from 3 year olds and produces 3d printed models for parents to display as art. Life scale models can be built with steel and plated in gold for those parents who really really want to brag about their kids things

- title: Document categorization for feedback systems
  desc: A feedback collector which categorizes documents using NLP, or at least organizes them nicely a la ZenDesk. Feedback for politicians doesn't exist afaik

- title: AWS/Quirky for recipes
  desc: Write down a recipe and a chef will make it for you

- title: Moisturizing underwear
  desc: Underwear which secrets a little bit of lotion and keeps your butt nice and soft

- title: Office Olympics
  desc: Olympics for businesses to compete in

- title: JIRA hooks
  desc: JIRA is used extensively, but the tool should be smarter and allow deeper integration with teams' workflows
  details:
    - suggest retrospectives, mini perf. reviews, and planning optimizations
    - special tags for manager/report pairing, mentoring, etc
    - learn a team's estimation and work pattern... and visualize it?

- title: Catch some fooken rocks
  desc: Capture meteors entering the atmosphere and refine them for the mineral contents
  details:
    - probably cheaper than mining an asteroid in space and bringing the pieces back

- title: Advertising is fooken annoying
  desc: Hardware firewall for blocking advertisements
  details:
    - people will pay $$$ monthly to block all advertisements
    - device can be updated hourly/daily/weekly

- title: Disrupt the millenia old religion industry
  desc: Develop a more betterer religion based on real science with an understanding modern knowledge of theology and psychology
  details:
    - submit a pr if something is wrong or becomes invalid due to new scientific events
    - fork your own religion while maintaining the same protocol version so people dont start religious wars

- title: KickChild
  desc: Crowdfund a child's future
  details:
    - fund a child based on their performance to date or based on their ambitions for the future
    - get some return on investment if the child ends up being a competent adult

- title: Snapchat Enterprise Edition.NET v12.5 for Windows Server R2015
  desc: Distribute semisecret company wide announcements that are less likely to be leaked

- title: Gamify work
  desc: Theme JIRA as a game with levels, prizes, quests, etc. Cuz engineers are nerds

- title: Yelp for kids toys
  desc: Service to measure how much kids play with their toys and what they learn from them, and posts metrics online for parents. This idea is shit.

- title: AWS for delivery boys in nyc
  desc: Restaurants may want to respond to a surges in demand by being able to deliver more -> scale up cluster of delivery boys. Surge pricing applies.

- title: Lifestyle data aggregator to qualify for insurance discounts
  desc: Exercise, eating habits, etc. can lower individuals' health risk, and so should give them insurance discounts. Build an app to help prove it to insurance companies

- title: Analyze code, turn it into diagrams
  desc: Application with understands dependency structure and call structure of code and can generate flow diagrams for users

- title: AWS for food
  desc: Spin up a chef and use the chef api to make some shit without having to make the shit
  details:
    - then you can get it delivered to you
    - or you can sell your recipe so others can find a treat as a service (FATAAS)

- title: Uber for X
  desc: Build a service for people to build their shitty "sharing economy" startups
  details:
    - handle dispatch, location, and logistics for $1k/month

- title: Disrupt the fooken music industry
  desc: An artist that procedurally generates music tailored to your tastes.
  comments:
    - this is a fucking terrible idea.

- title: Charge yer phone from a bike but make it less shitty and less stealable
  desc: .

- title: Dumbphone app for smartphones
  desc: Emulate an entire Nokia 4903 os in a smartphone app and lock out all other functionality.
  details:
    - people will buy this shit

- title: SLA Monitor
  desc: Internal and External SLAs exist all over, but its difficult to monitor and track them. Make an app where you can register different types of SLAs and add a web hook to check whether they are actually being kept up

- title: Virtual Posters
  desc: GPS tagged notifications (for utility, not advertisements) instead of posters and signs. Users subscribe to channels like their building or workplace to activate notifications

- title: VR Design Tools
  desc: Tools for designers to create VR objects, structures, etc easily. Showing customers how an object will look in VR before creating it is going to be the next step of design tools
  comments:
    - Rendering is already a part of the design process, how easy is it to go from a rendered 3d model to whatever VR/AR use to render objects?

- title: Silent VR concert
  desc: Silent concerts are already a thing. Lighting and effects are becoming bigger. VR concerts will allow even more visual stimulation.

- title: Snackroom Monitor
  desc: Monitoring and alerting for how many pretzels are left in the snack room so you can get them before they are finished.
  comments:
    - Weight based for pretzels?  Calibrate based on one unit and the weight of the package and report from there.
    - Basically what the first webcam was used for.

- title: Indexed FailHub
  desc: Github for failed ideas, but well indexed and searchable using NLP

- title: Itemtag Reminders
  desc: Use iot to alert people when they leave their home without an umbrella on a rainy day

- title: Makeup Snapchat
  desc: Let people send each other pics of themselves to get advice on their makeup and clothes

- title: Escape the Room
  desc: Have people or admins be able to create rooms that can be solved by people through IRC-like chat
  details:
    - Make it so that it's necessary for N people to comment in certain ways to solve the room
    - Make rooms time based so they will come back at certain times or build their own tools to solve rooms
    - Allow advertisers to build their own rooms and have users solve puzzles based around rooms to get rewards/discounts

- title: S3 for physical objects
  desc: People send boxes of stuff to a storage hub in the middle of nowhere, and the service stores it for a low cost until customer wants it back
  details:
    - online portal to view stored items
    - dependant on "network" i.e. shipping being cheap
  comments:
    - Omni does this - https://www.beomni.com/

- title: Buying ad space on people's wardrobes/accessories
  desc: Companies view your style/most popular locations on a daily basis and can buy a day of your wardrobe
  details:
    - Users can specify some sort of dress code so companies can't just send shitty t-shirts
    - More focused marketing campaign than handing out shirts at events (e.g. hackathons)
    - People like free clothing/phone cases/everything so they would probably do this for cheap

- title: We aren't dead yet
  desc: Indicator on a shitty startup website to tell you that they are not dead yet
  details:
    - Lots of shitty companies die or are about to die so its hard to tell what is still working

- title: QR code clothes
  desc: Allow people to express ideas by putting QR code links to things they like / care about on their clothes

- title: Keep in Touch
  desc: Tells you to keep in touch with people and reminds you about birthdays in a not shitty way like facebook.
  details:
    - watch sms, phone, and messenger activity to determine when you have last talked to a person and get reminders

- title: Famous people auction thing
  desc: Connect people who would like to meet celebrities with the celebrities.
  details:
    - Auction off the person's time
    - The majority of the money made goes to the person’s charity of choice

- title: Meet me halfway
  desc: Find a place halfway between you and the other pleb
  details:
    - 1. Share location with the app
    - 2. "share" or text link to friend
    - 3. Friend shares their location with the app or web page
    - 4. App suggests a coffee shop or restaurant or other venue to meet (can be parametrized)

- title: A to B
  desc: Get me from A to B cheap as possible
  details:
    - aggregate results from walking, public transit, taxi, uber, train, flights, etc and find the best one

- title: EC2 for X (user testing, science experiments, socks, tasks, bio)
  desc: lets you do things cheaply because some other person has taken the upfront cost and enables you to scale fast

- title: Curated X (news, restaurants, travel)
  desc: For those who are afraid/hate algorithmic recommendations
  details:
    - toot yer own horn by saying everything is curated by a real human being
    - in 2020 that will be unique as fuck

- title: Network for X (cancer support, weight loss, self improvement)
  desc: build a network around a certain cause
  details:
    - since the network is formed around a cause, people are less hesitant to post and consume content compared to a general network like facebook

- title: Slack for Politicians
  desc: Bring the constituients' voices to the office
  details:
    - e.x. Linda Greenstein has a team that manually sifts through printed emails
    - she samples binders of these printouts to gauge sentiment on issues
    - aggregate comments and suggestions from email, fb, twitter, mail, etc

- title: Kids build you dumb shit
  desc: Employ kids to build dumb shit that overfunded startups want
  details:
    - kids learn cs/ee from fun/stupid projects which are likely to be better motivators
    - shitty startups get their shitty toys built (see yo enabled vending machine)

- title: Accelerometer + beat looper DSP swag
  desc: phone app that lets you jam out with a table or some shit idk

- title: Solar powered water filtration device
  desc: Useful for people in other countries and backpacking or whatever

- title: Analysis tool for non-profit funding
  desc: Visualise funding sources for non-profits

- title: Chubby Chasers
  desc: Service for fat people to get chased by fit people
  details:
    - Reward people for tagging fat people
    - Reward fat people for running without getting tagged
    - Essentially becomes geocaching with tag/fitness program

- title: Machine/Woodworking Shop as a Service
  desc: Allow shop owners to sell time in their shop w/ rating system for both owners/machinists

- title: Spoiler-free Book Companion
  desc: Wiki for books, but allows user to filter content up to a certain page/chapter to avoid spoilers

- title: Image Crawler
  desc: Web crawler which maps out how the internet is connected by figuring out which images are common across websites

- title: Gitter for Books
  desc: Chat room for people interested in / reading books at the same time

- title: High-tech boardgaming table
  desc: Open source table with sensors that can keep track of state of any boardgame

- title: Poop
  desc: Like Yo, except you send it to everyone in contacts everytime you need to poop

- title: Shitshow
  desc: TV show based on people's love to watch people react to things, show people 4chan-esque stuff and reward them based on how long they watch

- title: Popular Media Checkin Twitter
  desc: Twitter like app focused on checking in the content (my favorite word) that you've just consumed.
  details:
    - Just finished a chapter of a book? Tag it and write a tweet length summary/review.
    - Just chilled and netflixed? Tag it, rate it, etc.
    - Reward badges for finishing things.

- title: Guitar classes taught by the musicians on the subways
  desc: o_O

- title: Invite-only site
  desc: Social experiment displaying who invited who using invite codes/gravatar

- title: Change kerning based on sentiment/time
  desc: Site/jquery plugin/whatever that alters the kerning of paragraphs/words/etc. based on some metric that changes reading experience.

- title: Language Detector
  desc: Detect what language someone on the subway is speaking and guess what region they are from

- title: Rumba for subway tracks
  desc: Clean the tracks. Prevent track fires. Reduce subway delays.

- title: Consumer focused group purchasing
  desc: Use foursquare like social graph of product preference to form group purchasing organizations for any category of goods

- title: MedCopter
  desc: Send out a quadcopter equipped with a medical kit for 911 calls
  details:
    - Good for remote areas or really fast response times
    - Equipped with a kit and instructions based on the 911 call details
    - Could include things like painkillers, meds, lots of gauze, antivenom, whatever the fuck
    - Only needs enough stuff and instructions to hold off until the ambulance makes it

- title: Expandr
  desc: Opposite of compression alogrithm that expands data to astronomical sizes to deter people from wanting to download it

- title: Folding Smartphones
  desc: Because theyre too big.

- title: Subway conversations
  desc: People spend a lot of time idling on subways - create ad-hoc environments for them to have conversations, play games against each other, etc.

- title: Facebook Tools to help kids study
  desc: kids use facebook and google drive incessantly for communication and studying, how can we build in tools to help them avoid distractions and improve workflow?

- title: Can We Do a Task?
  desc: Game (possibly built on something like minecraft) where co-op tasks can be taken on by any number of players.  Times reported by number of players.

- title: Algo/Programming productivity extension
  desc: Chrome extension that interrupts all browsing until you can complete a programming problem.

- title: Splashless Urinal
  desc: Urinal designed using CFD that prevent splashback no matter where you pee from.

- title: Crowdsourced weather
  desc: Weather stations can tell us what the temperature is outside, but everyone always asks their friends "how cold is it outside" anyway. Humans arebetter at giving relative advice

- title: Bakestagram
  desc: Baked goods marketplace built around instagram as the catalog of goods
  details:
    - Hobby baker makes something and posts it on instagram, local followers can put down a deposit to buy part of the next batch
    - Local search for bakers near you
    - Yoon says "You basically call dibs I guess"

- title: Computer mouse made of wood
  desc: dat eco friendly design

- title: Pop up business grants
  desc: Provide money for space, as well as technical, legal, and financial support for small business (not the same as startup) tests

- title: Let's have an orgy
  desc: Let's people who want to bang find others
  details:
    - Have rankings for places and how good they are for orgies
    - Rank people on their abilities in orgies
    - Heuristic for overall expected enjoyment of an orgy
    - Basically tinder for orgies

- title: Product Tagger
  desc: Have companies pay people to identify their products in instagram, twitter, etc. photos and allow the OPs to link to the product for pay/click.

- title: Safe Space for Ideas
  desc: Allow people to pitch ideas to small organized meeting groups with all the NDAs and competition abstracted away.
  details:
    - Lots of NYC people have ideas but dont know how they would ever implement them
    - Create a safe space for sharing ideas and getting feedback to motivate them
    - Pre seed funding?

- title: Annotate the Web
  desc: Chrome extension to allow comments and highlights on web pages
  details:
    - actions are persisted remotely based on web page identifier
    - allow users to @tag friends and send notifications
    - more direct form of article sharing e.g. Pocket

- title: Sale manager for craigslist
  desc: UI on top of craigslist to manage selling items, allow people to send inquiries, bid, etc
  details:
    - selling something on craigslist is a pain in the ass
    - consolidate disparate communications in one place
    - get commitment form buyers

- title: Tablet app to fill doctor forms
  desc: Maybe have people use a stylus so they dont get each other sick.

- title: Homebrew recipe calculator that doesn't look like shit
  desc: All of the calculators that exist now look like shit and have minimal functionality, improve that.

- title: Hop Deodorant
  desc: Hops are already used in deodorant as an antimicrobial.  Use them for aroma as well.

- title: What Should I Brew Next?
  desc: Machine learning web app that figures out your best beers so far/what works a few weeks in advance to decide what you should brew next.

- title: Computer aided estimation
  desc: In order to help humans make estimates, provide examples or comparison-pairs of sensory options for people to choose from. Do a study to see how well people can estimate with the aid.
  details:
    - Estimating number of items by considering images of those items eg 10 vs 1k
    - Estimate what a face looks like by finding eigenvalues of the face space and showing pairs of linear combinations to humans to help with identification

- title: Wearable camera that works like an eye
  desc: Tracks wearer's pupils and focuses on the same location and uses same aperature as wearer's pupils.

- title: Beer Bus
  desc: Party bus that serves draft beer.  Operates like a limo so no liquor license is required.

- title: Expiration Tracker
  desc: App which helps users track expiration dates on items in their fridge.

- title: Promise Racer ELB
  desc: Middleman server that pings all urls for that ID and redirects the user to whichever url wins the Promise.race

- title: Instagram brand rewards
  desc: Registered instagram accounts transparently get kickbacks from companies for posting images of brands. Use ML to detect brands

- title: Unstructured document indexing as a service
  desc: Upload scanned docs / pdfs to the service. Service performs OCR and indexes them. Provides a search interface.

- title: Github repository recommendations
  desc: Often you are looking at libraries or packages for a specific purpose on Github, but there is no way to see what other packages exist for similar functions. Google does this, but having an interface within github would be better.

- title: Macbook Power Block
  desc: Big power adapter that has a bunch of ports for charging macbooks.  Avoids taking up too many power outlets.  Only have to carry a cable to work.

- title: Fonts
  desc: I don't know, it seems like they're popular.

- title: h8ers
  desc: Convert words like haters to h8ers and fore to 4.

- title: Ad-targeting but for recruiters to find prospects
  desc: Buy a bunch of data and predict how good people are at various jobs, and then whether they are likely to be ready to leave and join another company

- title: Toasters as a Service
  desc: Web scale toaster service.  Support CLI that allows users to auto-scale number of needed toast capacity.

- title: Getaround for apartment rentals
  desc: In the age of the internet, brokers are useless and are basically robbing people of 12-15% of rent. If we created a mechanism to book apartments for viewing and unlock the doors via an app (like getaround does with cars), then we could undercut brokers significantly and allow people to see apartments and rent them for cheaper (charge 5% fee instead of 12%).

- title: barkbox for cats, but its just a box
  desc: kitnipbox already exists, but instead of shipping a bunch of actual cat stuff, we just ship a box to you every 2 weeks for a subscription fee.

- title: bars
  desc: App that lets you search for specific rap verses with timestamps.
  details:
    - Could search by lyrics, artist, or song title
    - Have link to spotify web player to play song from the timestamp where the verse starts
    - Figure out ways to break Spotify's TOS

- title: drug that makes men less horny
  desc: Imagine if you didn't get distracted by boobs and butts every 10 minute. Imagine if it took no mental energy to avoid checking out girls. Think of how much we could accomplish.

- title: career counselling app
  desc: help people deal with work/career anxiety using self-questionnaires, games, discussions with an online partner, and counselling with a professional

- title: Retail Arbitrage Analytics (for reatilers)
  desc: According to the planet money podcast, there is a big industry buying goods in a retail store and selling them online for a profit. This business is mostly done by individuals exploiting a gap in prices or supply that the market cannot adjust for. If there were an easy way for a retailer manager to walk down the isle and see how much each item is selling for online vs in the store, they may be able to recuperate some of these lost profits.

- title: Instant cost estimation for treatment
  desc: It is annoying that providers can't give instant estimates for how much a treatment will cost. This is partially because their estimate depends on how much an insurance will cover. Build an API for providers to instantly compare their estiamtes with provider's coverage estimates so patients can make better decisions about treatment.

- title: Clothing brand recommender
  desc: Recommend clothing brands based on the graph of what people like.
  details:
    - How to get this without financial information...?

- title: Infinite chapstick
  desc: It'll never run out, but you still have to make sure you don't lose it

- title: Bullshit excuse generator
  desc: For when you need an excuse to flake on someone or something
  details:
    - "\"The landlord's coming over to check out that black mold in the kitchen\""
    - "\"My dog has the shits so I gotta stay home and take care of him\""

- title: Note taking app for people with short attention spans
  desc: quick place to dump notes that also reminds you to organize new notes daily/weekly so you don't have a bunch of stream of consciousness garbage that isn't usable or searchable
  details:
    - this is basically GTD but without the cult