Ideas I would like to build / see built

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by daleharvey • 16 years ago

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leif• 16 years ago

calender => calendar

Attention to detail, buddy.

daleharvey6• 16 years ago

heh cheers, I had even ran it through after the deadline but still managed to miss it, fixed

SlyShy• 16 years ago

Not to hate, but these are vague ideas overall. Those are the kind that are a dime a dozen. ;)

daleharvey6• 16 years ago

They are pretty vague so far, I just wanted to jot down general ideas that I keep having and forgetting over time, thought itd be handy if they were online for others to try as well. It will be updated and refined pretty regularly.

bootload• 16 years ago

"... but these are vague ideas overall. Those are the kind that are a dime a dozen. ;) ..."

Vague & dime a dozen maybe, but don't discount them all without trying or thinking about some. For example: Having a "timed-task" function could be applied to solve a lot of time wasting in many areas.

adrianwaj• 16 years ago

What about a social network especially for people who haven't owned Apple (stock, hw and sw) and never will?

smokinn• 16 years ago

For the first idea, have you checked out tinychat? http://tinychat.com/

daleharvey6• 16 years ago

tinychat seems to let you host your own chatroom, whereas I was looking for a chat client that can connect to irc / xmpp (and possibly msn / facebook), somewhat more like meebo

mike-cardwell• 16 years ago

You could take http://cgiirc.org/ and point it at a http://bitlbee.org/ server.

mkramlich5• 16 years ago

I'd like to see also: a web browser, an OS, a "spreadsheet" (term I've coined, I'll explain in a follow-up post), also some sort of FPS, also some sort of markup format that's like HTML but not presentation-specific...also, I'd like a language like C but with classes. And, a pony. Thank you.

cperciva4• 16 years ago

I'd like a language like C but with classes

C already has classes. They're called structs. And methods are called function pointers.

mkramlich5• 16 years ago

Disagree C has classes. No "class" and no inheritance or polymorphism. C++ and Objective-C have these things. But I understand what you're saying. There is the very well-known structs+functions technique which gives a partial stand-in for full OO.

My post was meant to be funny yet true. I read the OA and thought all of the ideas he listed already exist, and was surprised it made the front page on Hacker News. Then I thought to myself, "Oh, it must be because it's a joke, the OA was trying to be funny." Perhaps I was mistaken.

daleharvey6• 16 years ago

heh looking back I should probably change the title, some of these I would like to see built because there isnt something available that satisfies me, others are just things I want to build because they would be fun.

henning• 16 years ago

Most or all of these already exist in some form. E.g., Campfire, ikiwiki, etc.

srogers• 16 years ago

On a related note, there's a new sub-reddit called SomebodyMakeThis. (a sub-reddit being a user created subsection of the link aggregator Reddit)

http://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/

jonah• 16 years ago

WYSIWYG HTML Editor == Dreamweaver

daleharvey6• 16 years ago

To be fair it has been a long long time since I have used dreamweaver. But I have a sneaking suspicion that it wont have improved a whole lot (as the rest of the CS Suite havent either).

It used to generate terrible html, and in the case when you wrote your own html it munged it badly, its css and javascript editing were mediocre, I remember it not even handling css definitions properly.

even a live preview window in emacs would cover quite a lot of what I want, remember project to embed firefox into emacs a while ago, probably time to go search it out.

kalid• 16 years ago

Seamonkey is a good wysiwyg editor. You can visit any page, save it, and do edit HTML. It's not excellent but is better than raw text editing for ux mockup ideas.

mkramlich5• 16 years ago

Or the old fashioned alternative: browser & editor side-by-side on your screen.

Browser rendering the same HTML file that is loaded in your editor.

Edit.

Save.

Hit refresh in browser.

Optionally: add a simple, development-class web server (like web.py).

Bingo, done.

I guess I feel like the "editor" and "render" parts of the problem are already solved. I'm not sure that we gain more than we lose by trying to smash them together into one gob. For debugging/tweaking an existing web app, sure (then use something like Firebug), but for general development from scratch there are a lot of benefits to using a real browser and real editor.

barmstrong• 16 years ago

I love the idea of a game which limits the time you can spend playing it. You might have something big with that one.

chime• 16 years ago

> Canvas/WebGL/JavaScript Game

I made a bunch of small JS games/puzzles using Processing.js (which uses Canvas/VML). The exact rules are slightly cryptic by design. I definitely loved making them and intend to make a bunch more this year:

http://chir.ag/projects/prc/?nored

http://chir.ag/projects/prc/?gold

http://chir.ag/projects/prc/?piggy

http://chir.ag/projects/prc/?vanish

I hope you enjoy them.

daleharvey6• 16 years ago

those are brilliant, exactly what I was talking about, thanks for sharing

edkennedy• 16 years ago

Re: Calender Web Service. How about Tungle? http://www.tungle.com Allows other to schedule with you with no signups. It also works with many calendar apps.

Dysiode• 16 years ago

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Google Talk. For a while I suffered through the tangled mess that was using jabber transports to connect to other protocols because it was so minimalistic and slick. I'd love to see Pidgin or Psi reimagine Google Talk's UI while keeping the extensibility of the backend.

Also, you might be interested in a free game by the name of Skyrates (http://www.skyrates.net). It's not really an MMO, but it was made for people with not much free-time in mind so it doesn't favor people sinking a lot of time into it.

arachnid• 16 years ago

My latest addiction isn't an MMO, but otherwise fits your description pretty well: http://np.ironhelmet.com/

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