"Cup washer" by @Mikettownsend

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Rather than a full dishwasher, I only have coffee cups. This would be for the office. I want to make a track shelf for the dishwasher that fits the maximum # of coffee cups.

If you're thinking of stealing this idea, too bad, I'm working with a patent lawyer now.

"Mass routers for apartments" by @airpair

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If you go into a typical apartment (anywhere) and log into your laptop, you will likely see 10+ wireless signals. Sometimes these networks are not password protected and security is compromised without people ever realizing it.

Problems:

Wireless routers & modems have questionable reliability and often fail (for no apparent reason!).

Cable & internet is expensive together and often you cannot separate the two in a time warner service plan.

Solution:

A company that could come in with high power (similar to hotel configurations) secure routers and provide people internet as a discounted price than that which they currently pay. No maintenance necessary.

Tear it up!

"Attachable Popped / Unpopped Collar for TShirts" by @Aaronontheweb

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Once upon a time, I was bro, and kept my collar popped because that's what bros do. Now I'm developer, and I wear long-fit tshirts, but sadly cannot pop my collar. I want to put a collar on my shirt that I can pop. Let's do it.

"Uber for Food Trucks" by @Aaronontheweb

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Every now and then when I'm together with a big group of friends and we feel like we could eat some Korean-Mexican fusion food, we wish we could summon the foodtruck that specializes in this food to our neighborhood.

I'd like to create an Uber for food trucks where enough of us could, in real-time, demand to have a foodtruck that is on-duty come by and deliver us food within a specific timeframe.

"World History Timeline" by @yazhini01

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This is a pretty-looking timeline app where you can zoom in and zoom out. It shows all the recorded events on a timeline and as you zoom out, the less important ones fade away. The data could come from wiki, to start with.

Well, a girl can wish.

"Audio Friend" by @juliefogg

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Audio Friend is a combination of hardware and software. This product is for people that have gone blind for various reasons (reading a mobile device for 5-10 years straight and going blind from text that is too small; reading Excel spreadsheets until blind; many people in the US are overweight and loss of eyesight is a symptom of diabetes). People dictate to Audio Friend what they need to work on and the AI (artificial intelligence) in the system will locate the file, any file type, and then have a conversation with you about what you want to happen. Your request may be as simple as having Audio Friend reading a Blackberry Messenger message you received then sending a message you dictate back to the friend you are instant messaging. Your request may be complex such as modifying/updating your financials and sending them off to the government agency you are applying to for a license or certification. This product might already exist. I did see Transcendent Man and Ray Kurzweil made some device for the blind so I may have missed this opportunity already. Anyway, I would like feedback on this product because I will probably be blind like Steve Wynn in the next few years because I like to read my Twitter stream at 4 am for an hour in the dark.

"Automatic curation of your online content streams" by @snikolov

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A service that automatically curates and categorizes your online content streams of choice (blogs, news, twitter, facebook, etc). Learns what you are interested in the more you use it. Exposes the reasons why something was recommended to you ("This article is about: Hacker News, Paul Graham, Lisp, ...) and gives you a chance to give feedback. That way the system learns more quicly which topics you are actually interested in.

"Twhiners - Rank Twitter Users by How Much They Complain" by @Aaronontheweb

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Complaining about things on Twitter is both fun and easy - instead of having to go through the effort of tracking someone down to provide them with helpful, constructive feedback you can just write a snarky, unhelpful complaint on Twitter and allow your followers to bask in your self-superior insightful wit.

Twhiners is a service that aims to recognize and rank these do-gooders by organizing all of their best complaints, their "greatest hits" if you will, into one solid stream of hating on other people's work.

Want to see just how smart and super-awesome-talented that one prominent Ruby developer with no public Github repositories is - check out how many times he's torn down someone else's work on Twitter!

"iPad app for database design" by @rabc

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As an iPad fan and developer, I always wanted some better way to design my databases. Draw it in front of my computer isn't good to discuss with the other developers. So, an iPad app would be awesome to discuss the database model and faster to change the diagram.

"IE Punching Bag" by @webbc

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Ever spent hours upon end troubleshooting CSS issues with IE? Did that make you want to punch the crap out of the browser but you had to restrain yourself because you didn't want to buy another new LCD monitor? Enter the IE punching bag.

Kick it, punch it, stab it... Whatever you want! No longer will you be a ball of built up frustration. Even though it won't actually solve the problem of "IE Suckiness" you sure will feel a heck of a lot better.

 

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