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by tectonic • 5 years ago

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tablespoon• 5 years ago

A pediatrician that helps you monitor your kid's health.

I think that idea exists. It's called a pediatrician.

dmitryminkovsky• 5 years ago

I have a 15 month old and I’m not so sure about that lol. Our pediatrician seems to mostly be on the lookout for serious illnesses, which is fair enough I guess? Maybe if we got concierge or lived in another country.

recursive• 5 years ago

Agreed. Two kids here. The pediatrician is seen ~annually. (more during infancy) Not enough for what I'd call "monitoring".

zzt1233• 5 years ago

Maybe a dumb observation, but pressure pads wrt beds are great for sleep monitoring. As babies stereotypically spend a lot of time in cribs, wouldn’t something similar have potential for noticing unusual behavior?

tectonic• 5 years ago

* some of these ideas may actually exist.

See also https://thisxdoesnotexist.com/

Also, I think the literal HN audience may be missing the point that this is an ideation tool. A starting place.

aeoleonn• 5 years ago

So.. it's a ... "This Idea May or May Not Exist"

Dang, not so catchy eh? But transparent and honest.

Which do you prefer: Catchiness or Honesty?

zzt1233• 5 years ago

I think that can be compressed to “Idea Generator”.

zzt1233• 5 years ago

Almost all of the nonexistent ideas I saw have companies that service them…

For example, it thinks there’s no website which, given available ingredients, suggests recipes.

pluc• 5 years ago

You didn't see "make a site that claims to provide endless new tech ideas" on it though did you

karmicthreat• 5 years ago

“A website that helps you sell used items.”

Yea, I think that has been done.

Clampower• 5 years ago

I clicked through 15 of them and they all exist.

hobofan• 5 years ago

Looks to be completely overfitted on the training set. 10/10 "ideas" displayed to me do exist.

codetrotter• 5 years ago

There’s a simple fix for that. Rename site to “this idea, but you can solve it better”.

So the idea exists, but maybe the person reading it can implement a better solution for the idea.

Youcansolveitbetter.com they could call it

gremlinsinc• 5 years ago

Should maybe have thumbs up/down and use that to maybe better 'train' the algorithm... on whether it exists/doesn't exist.

arbuge• 5 years ago

Indeed so... the first one recommended to me was "An online course that teaches basic programming skills."

After seeing your comment, I tried another 9 out of curiosity... and they all exist.

jamesgreenleaf2• 5 years ago

A company that turns your Spotify playlists into a radio station that plays similar music based on your tastes.

"It's like Spotify for Spotify."

xtracto• 5 years ago

A bit of a tangent, but I liked the Rdio model where you could configure how "close" did you want music suggestions to be. Sometimes when I play a band I want to only listen to their music and some very similar music, othertimes I want to discover something different.

Another great functionality is what Last.fm had way back in the 2003-2004 where you could input 2 or 3 different artists and it will generate a "radio" playlist of music similar to them. The closest thing I've found so far is https://www.gnoosic.com/, alas, they don't generate a playlist.

jamesgreenleaf2• 5 years ago

Yeah, I remember Last.fm being pretty good at that. Also, Pandora seemed like magic back when it first came out.

spcebar• 5 years ago

Is this generated by AI or are these generated by a person? Some context would be helpful here.

theandrewbailey2• 5 years ago

A company that creates educational material for children.

(looks up school textbook publishers.)

A company that lets you rent out your car's battery when you aren't using it.

I don't see that one happening. Ever.

A website that lets you order and purchase local food in your area.

You don't watch TV, do you?

rjmunro• 5 years ago

> A company that lets you rent out your car's battery when you aren't using it.
I don't see that one happening. Ever.

It is happening, e.g. https://www.octopusev.com/powerloop

theandrewbailey2• 5 years ago

Those solutions (car battery storage like a Tesla powerwall) is not what comes to mind with the words "rent out your car's battery". More like: I'm not using my car, here's its battery for you to do whatever with.

vertigolimbo• 5 years ago

You do realise this is computer generated. Who are you refereing to by saying "you"?

thom• 5 years ago

I’m not convinced that’s true, and if they are they’re heavily curated, and come from a small enough pool that I see regular repeats. I’d expect at least _something_ interesting to pop up if these were truly raw model outputs.

MonadIsPronad• 5 years ago

"An online virtual reality surgery training simulator."

Sounds like great fun if it's open to the public :D

jcun4128• 5 years ago

A website that lets people order their groceries online and then pick them up at a central location.

Side note, there was one time I "sold an idea" to a website unrefundable for $99 that was hilarious, in the process I overdrafted my bank account too, ahh. Props to the person that made that site.

1MachineElf• 5 years ago

Judging by these comments and my own results, perhaps this is a joke. We see these ideas turned into enterprises/ventures all the time. It's as if the people who come up with them are unaware of the fact that these things have been done many times before. Even with that knowledge, some people have motivations to do the same thing again - maybe because it looks like it could be profitable, maybe for the prestige, who knows? At face value, some "launches" seem more like "rehashes", but I can't tell if that's the author's cynicism or my own.

m4xm4n• 5 years ago

In this topic: people not getting the joke

krylon• 5 years ago

Irony at work.

helmsb• 5 years ago

Brilliant.

“A website that lets you easily buy the best local daycares.”

indianpianist• 5 years ago

I'm pretty sure that "an app that helps you keep track of your cryptocurrency investments" already exists.

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