March: What is your idea?
I have many ideas (big hairy scary ones, and small weekend doable ones) but for one reason or another, I never got around to implementing them. I believe that many of us are also in the same boat.
So I want to try an experiment and to have a regular thread for us to dump our ideas. Hopefully, one of these strikes a cord with one of the readers and can run with it. Good luck.
My ideas are
- A language translation service where it will translate a document that you emailed in as a photo. The service can email the translated document back to you.
- Webcrawler for hotel booking sites for several popular cities (Rome, Paris, London and New York) and it sends out the top 5 hotels deals four weeks in the future.
- Cryptocurrency portfolio tracker that also consider the transaction fee as well.
A stock portfolio app that shows the actualised returns factoring in capital gains, dividends and stock splits.
You can easily make this for yourself with Google Sheets. It has GOOGLEFINANCE functions that can fetch stock data.
Just spent an hour to find a damn tool which can simply change the name of a Windows font. So here is my idea for you:
Would anyone be interested in a pre-built/pre-configured Authentication system?
It wouldn't have role based authorization or anything to do with App logic; it would exist simply to Signup/Login a user via an email address and password. All locally stored in a database with the tables already setup.
So you'd have:
This would all be ready to go so you could start working right away. Skip over all the typical authorization kinks.
I post a round up of my best ideas from each months. Here is Feb.
https://medium.com/@joshdance/gorilla-glass-eyeglasses-super-chapstick-and-uber-local-milkman-7ca38be27a14
I particularly like:
Eyeglasses made out of gorilla glass so they are hard to break or chip.
Super local milkman. I will buy milk for you, and deliver it to you. In glass bottles. I will text you when I delivered the milk. I am already going to the store, I can grab milk for my neighbors for a small fee.
Super easy budgeting software. I want to see themoney to come in, and the software to ask me a bunch of questions, so it can figure out my budget, then alert me when I am outside the lines.
Interesting ideas. As to #1, I wonder how you will stack up against Google Translate? Or would it act more like a professional translation service?
Ideas I'm currently focussing on:
A few more in the pipeline to be shared in due time :) Would appreciate some feedback especially on #2!
For idea#1, I was thinking of a semi professional translation service. The use case would be an expat's spouse that needs to deal with kid's school notices. A photo of the notice is taken and emailed away. Within 24 hours, a translated version of it would be emailed back. The translation would only need to be accurately enough for the spouse to decided the importance of it.
I like your Twitter feed filter idea. Does it do the filtering based on heuristics?
I was thinking that users can just filter by content type, e.g. you could only see the links that are showing up in your feed. Additionally, I want to provide the option to sort those by popularity.
What do you mean exactly? Would be interested to hear how you would apply heuristics here.