3 Start up ideas - what's the best?

[asd345]

And another round of three: What do you think of this ideas? Or are they already existing? Or how could they be made better? Most important of all: which one is the best? Thanks!

Favour Network - Make favours transparent!

Lots of networking aims at making your life better by getting favours. Especially old networks, like student clubs, the army or religous ones anable the people in them to cooperate and sp do well. Why not focus on this property? The Favour Network could make right that: You connect to help people and to get help. There could be a favour point which one could get or pay with, gain them if yu give a favour, lose them if you take one. As well there might be a feature that lets the community decide hwat a favour is worth if 2 partys dont agree. The differece to networks like linkedin would be the actual opportunity to get something out of it for the person involved. A nice side effect would be a more transpartent society.

Offline Hotline

Imagine you are somewhere without mobile internet reception, or simply cant afford it by now: Time for the Offline Hotline. This one is inspired by the automated telephone newsletter for those who haven’t got internet but need it (How To Find a Great Start-Up Idea - Forbes (http://www.forbes.com/sites/eliportnoy/2012/03/15/how-to-find-a-great-start-up-idea/) ) and the fast development of text to voice apps.
The Offline Hotline would simply connect you to a speech app with which you could search the internet. You could find out all you need, whether its the bus timetable, a fact or the birthday of your flatmate, if its on Facebook. Additionally you could be connected to a real person for advanced searches. For those permanently without internet, newsletters could be sent to the phone, or even disaster warning messages and all the internet knows before you.


Hello! - App: Get social again with minimum effort

Hello is an app, which spontaneously lets you share questions like: „Hello! Who wants to go for a drink?“ or „Hello! Who wants to join a pick nick?“ The trick is, that its more spontaneous than normal social networks like Facebook. Furthermore the „Hello“ can be sent out in a distance around you which you choose and be public, private, or may aim at certain people (youngsters, Nirvana fans, entrepreneurs). It seems simple, but would work because people don’t want to be chained to decisions too long in advance any more, plus its a great way of contacting people in physical reality in a time when the gets harder because everybody is just looking at the computer.

[billbenson]

If in your second example you are referring to rural locations where people need internet but there is no dsl or cable, it's pretty much been done for at least 12 years. You put an access point or router at your house with a hi gain directional antenna and possibly an amplifier to connect to a tower a few miles away.

Your last item sounds like the connections section of craigs list. There are platonic let's get together stuff listings.

[Harold Mansfield]

And another round of three: What do you think of this ideas? Or are they already existing? Or how could they be made better? Most important of all: which one is the best? Thanks!

Favour Network - Make favours transparent!

Lots of networking aims at making your life better by getting favours. Especially old networks, like student clubs, the army or religous ones anable the people in them to cooperate and sp do well. Why not focus on this property? The Favour Network could make right that: You connect to help people and to get help. There could be a favour point which one could get or pay with, gain them if yu give a favour, lose them if you take one. As well there might be a feature that lets the community decide hwat a favour is worth if 2 partys dont agree. The differece to networks like linkedin would be the actual opportunity to get something out of it for the person involved. A nice side effect would be a more transpartent society.
I don't see it.


Offline Hotline

Imagine you are somewhere without mobile internet reception, or simply cant afford it by now: Time for the Offline Hotline. This one is inspired by the automated telephone newsletter for those who haven’t got internet but need it (How To Find a Great Start-Up Idea - Forbes (http://www.forbes.com/sites/eliportnoy/2012/03/15/how-to-find-a-great-start-up-idea/) ) and the fast development of text to voice apps.
The Offline Hotline would simply connect you to a speech app with which you could search the internet. You could find out all you need, whether its the bus timetable, a fact or the birthday of your flatmate, if its on Facebook. Additionally you could be connected to a real person for advanced searches. For those permanently without internet, newsletters could be sent to the phone, or even disaster warning messages and all the internet knows before you.

Apple has that, it's called Siri. There are also other apps that do those other things, and FEMA and Department of Homeland Security are already hacked into every network to get Emergency information to the masses on every device.

The other is called 411 and has been around for decades. I also don't understand why anyone permanently without wireless or internet access would even have a phone. For what purpose?



Hello! - App: Get social again with minimum effort

Hello is an app, which spontaneously lets you share questions like: „Hello! Who wants to go for a drink?“ or „Hello! Who wants to join a pick nick?“ The trick is, that its more spontaneous than normal social networks like Facebook. Furthermore the „Hello“ can be sent out in a distance around you which you choose and be public, private, or may aim at certain people (youngsters, Nirvana fans, entrepreneurs). It seems simple, but would work because people don’t want to be chained to decisions too long in advance any more, plus its a great way of contacting people in physical reality in a time when the gets harder because everybody is just looking at the computer.

There are a couple of apps for that already that have been around for a couple of years. You can also do that with Facebook mobile apps as well as see who in your connections are in your immediate proximity with Google maps integration ( including indoor maps when avaiable) for turn by turn directions to where they are.

[asd345]

Utterly devastating, but thanks! See my next post for way better ideas.

[fayt]

I already have a group that is your favour idea, it is going great.

The offline hotline doesn't make sense to me, if you don't have cell service, how are you going to get on the internet?

Hello! is basically a mimic of twitter.

[AccountantSalary]

Have you actually done a Google search on these ideas to see if others have done anything similar? Of course, you could do better, but it would be good to know who your competition is.