One of our engineers wants to attend TechCrunch Disrupt. The $3000 price tag is a bit high for us to send all the people that would want to attend, but I really appreciate a way for people that want to go to Disrupt can go by participating in the hack a thon.
A few people were asking for ideas, so I’m putting out a list of ideas that could possibly be done in an 8 hr period. I’m not researching the ideas, so they may exist. They are also aimed to be simple to develop.
1. Should I buy this (I hope someone makes this) Facebook app. Take a picture of an item with the title, Should I buy this. Then it has a poll, Yes or No that goes out to your friends.
2. Sports Score notifications. I want to be able to follow a game and get a notification everytime a team scores. I hate checking scores to see that it hasn’t changed so just let me “follow” a game and get updates as they happen.
3. Netflix New Release App - When movies hit theaters, I want a way to add them to my NF queue if I want to see them. I rarely make it the the theatre (have little kids) and I feel like I miss adding movies I want to see.
4. Mortgage Rate Alert. A simple notification that you can set to let you know if rates hit a certain level. Most people should refi if they can save over 1pt. Make it easy for people to know.
5. You should know this person - Take a picture of a person and send an email to someone introducing them. So in so, meet so in so. Make an email template for the intro and fill in basic info. I do at least two or three intros a week.
6. Pick this up for me. Very simple app where you say, pick this up for me, or run this errand. Anyone can claim the task and do it for a small fee.
7. Concerts I want to see. Make a list of the people you want to see in concert and get a notification if they are ever close to you.
8. Receipt filer. Take a picture of a receipt and file it, plus put it into a expense report and email it to the right person. Expense reports stink.
9. Business cards. Take a picture of a business card and have it turned into a contact.
10. Automatic Itinerary to block off time on your calendar while you travel. When you book a flight, you get an email with the dates and time. Make a way to forward the mail so it blocks the time on your calendar.
Most of these are mobile ideas or notification based ideas and I don’t know if they exist already, but they could be a seed of a useful app to build and who knows, maybe even a company.
