Steal my Idea: Archive

Cupcake sliders

Cupcakes and burgers are both trendy right now. Someone must’ve tried combining them.

Feb 11th

Cut your hair while you sleep service

I would pay for that.

Feb 10th

A smarter washroom

This would be a technology that locks you in the washroom until you wash your hands.

Feb 3rd

The social brag hat

Wifi enabled hat with social API integration. Every time I get a like, retweet, comment, etc. it displays it on my hat. (with optional chime sound)

Jan 31st

The usual order

This would be a customizable web-based service that automatically ships toothpaste, toilet paper, shampoo etc. to your home at regular intervals.

Dec 14th

Gimme directions app

An app that takes a picture of any text address-say on a package, poster, in an email, etc. Then it OCR’s it and creates directions from your current location to the scanned address.

Nov 16th

Social Vend

A vending machine you sign into with your social media account/credentials and receive free merch in exchange for allowing a post in your social stream(s). Could also be used for points/rewards systems.

Nov 10th

Movember fake-it app

An app that lets you take a picture of anybody, add a mustache, and share it via social networks. Get on it. We need it for Tuesday.

Oct 28th

Sortoflikesurvivornet.com

This would be a social network, but you have to unfriend 1 person every day. Drama gaurunteed.

Oct 21st

Virtual Fridge and Pantry

This would be a promotional website/app for food banks where people could check in to see what items they had, what they needed most, etc. Could be manually updated for smaller food banks, and eventually made an automated thing, or even just a series of web cams pointed at labelled areas of a fridge and/or pantry at the food bank.

Oct 14th

Stallcheck

A simple hardware/app combo that would let you check if the toilet stalls in your work/school/home were occupied without leaving your desk.

Oct 13th

Liquid cooled clothing

For when a fan just isn’t cutting it.

Oct 1st

Photo blocking hat

This would be a hat with a battery powered slave flash pointing forward. That way, whenever someone tried to take your photo with a flash, they’d just get a blinding light flashed back, wrecking the photo.

Sep 30th

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Rate my cheeseburger

Seems like a necessary photo sharing site/app. With geotagging.

Sep 30th

Cheeseburger flavored breakfast cereal

Maybe with a little jalapeño? If we can have Apple Cheerios surely we could try Cheeseburger flavored Special K.

Sep 27th

Reverse Throttle

Opposite of an energy drink. Simmer.

Sep 25th

Retrobook

This would be a website exactly like Facebook looked in 2007, except using current data (via account opt-in / authorization). No one would use it, but at least when people wank about UI changes you could offer them the Retrobook option. Remember how Windows 95 had that old school ‘classic’ view you could switch to? Like that.

Sep 23rd

Digital billboard system

A digital billboard and camera system that would take a snapshot of your car and then make other digital billboards customize deals and offers based on recognition. So family car = family deals. Guy on motorbike = deals on health insurance. Etc.

Sep 22nd

Bumper sticker

That says ‘my other car is a buffet’

Jul 6th

News as timeline

I would like to see a news site that treated all stories as timelines. Stories would be updated and added to, but never go back and change or replace details.

Jun 17th

iPad and iPhone drum kit

Electronic drumkit from networked apple drum kit. No sticks so you could play them like bongos. Has anyone done this?

Jun 16th

Openslides

Open source slide decks, individual slides, and charts that could be shared, edited, and built upon by the community via web interface.

May 27th

Influenced network

A social site/forum restricted to people of a certain influence level elsewhere on the net. Sort of an influencer segregation…

May 25th

Tweetbrief

A script that finds all the tweets that use all 140 characters and automatically responds with TLDR

May 5th

Search YouTube Audio Signature

I’d love to be able to search YouTube, or actually the whole web, based on sound signature. So basically you could upload a short audio clip and get results of all online media that contained that clip. And the next logical extension would be ‘sounds like’ results. The technology obviously exists. I’m thinking indexing all of that data and searching it in a timely...

Apr 27th

Kindle Book Signing Feature

Kindle should have a feature where an author can digitally sign your Kindle version of their book. They could ‘write’ their name with their finger on your iPhone or iPad touch screen + type a personal note from the author to the reader.

Apr 10th

Dashboard QR scanner

A scanner on your car that could grab a QR code from a road sign or billboard and read you more info from the dashboard friendly website through your cars audio system.

Mar 1st

Radio PVR

No matter what time you woke up you could 1-click for the latest pvr’d news and weather… Or road report or whatever you wanted. The radio could also automatically create a podcast from any radio show.

Mar 1st

Condo-like service in your private home

This would be a handyman service you could pay a monthly fee (like a condo fee), then when you needed someone to come fix a leaky faucet or patch a hole in the plaster it would be covered in the monthly fee. And your handy person would be on call. Would need to work out exactly what was covered at what price point, of course. Could be different packages at different price points.

Feb 26th

Twitter URL suggestion

I want to be able to go to twitter.com/#anyHashtag and see the search results.

Feb 2nd

Who Covered

Website where you could look up any song and see who has covered it. Could be funded with affiliate links, I guess.

Jan 24th

Treadmill powered cellphone charger

Work out and charge your iPhone at the same time.

Jan 24th

A smarter projector

A projector where you could just plug a USB key into it with video file, ppt, or prezi and it would work. No laptop, DVD player or other device needed.

Jan 22nd

Shazam location feature

A way to add gps coordinates to a shazam tweet and then a way to aggregate and report on the data. In this way you could figure out what songs were popular in what regions.

Jan 13th

App Idea. 'Friend or Not'

App connects to your fb account and downloads all your friends photos. Then photos pop up in front of you, some from your friends and some not, and you have to choose which ones are actually your friends. Score is speed based.

Dec 9th

Daily photo treasure hunt app

With prizes and rankings based on both speed and photo creative.

Dec 7th

The I can't believe it's not a mo

For guys like me who lack in manliness and would have to start growing in MoJuly to have anything respectable in November. As an added bonus, it could come in different scents so you could choose what you want to smell all day.

Nov 26th

Social Media Lame-O-Meter

Whenever you check into the place you live or work every day it goes up to 11.

Nov 26th

Shuttle of Shame

Instead of doing the walk of shame you could call the shamemobile to come pick you up.

Nov 26th

Another mobile/photo search app

Take a photo of anyone and see if they have a criminal record and/or are on a sex offender list.

Nov 26th

Profile Locator App for iPhone

Take a photo of a persons face, it finds there Facebook and other social media profiles and let’s you msg or add them as a friend.

Nov 24th

World Spelling in the Snow Championships

Need sponsors. :)

Nov 9th

Modularized man caves

Like modular homes, except add on man caves to ones existing home or property.

Nov 1st

Badge clip

Some kind of way to quickly attach and remove the badging on your car, sort of like a radio faceplate. For when you are forced to park in the sketchy part of town.

Oct 21st