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To highlight new places around the world, we help travelers in the choice of their next trip location by recommending places depending on their tastes and previous trips. (Also, let me know what do you think about the name 😉)

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Would it be nice to: Never forget a link again and go searching for hours? Open all your common links easily? Save all your open tabs in one go to resume later? Never have your computer slow down because of too many tabs open? We've built an extension and website for managing your bookmarks with nice visuals and collaboration in mind, and we're now wondering if we should take it to the next level by managing your tabs too. There are some great extensions out there that help you manage your tabs like onetab and gettoby, but developers have stopped working on them and there's so much room for improvement. We're wondering if we took the best features from there around tab management and added it to our current bookmarking platform would you want this?

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If you are planning a convention or outdoor festival, you can use this app to create an interactive map of booths and attractions without graphic design experience. Input a pencil sketch of the event’s map, the software will convert it to a clean vector map and allow you to tag booths with descriptions, GPS locations, and ticketing payment portals.

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Site that facilitates improvement in public speaking skills by allowing users to record a presentation or mock interview, then obtain feedback from both the community and professional coaches

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Aggregate all electric scooter gps info and rental payments into one application, rather than having multiple apps for each electric scooter company.

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A monthly subscription box that includes mixers, spirits, citrus fruits, muddlers, jiggers, etc. For people who frequently host parties or upscale dinner guests, this subscription box includes everything you need to become a bartender at home.

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A crowd-funding site similar to kickstarter, but with a monthly subscription fee for campaigners. Each month, the campaigner pays 15 dollars into an account and she can spend that account on other people’s campaigns. That means if you create a campaign, it has a good chance of getting donations from other campaigners on the site and will likely get funded much faster.

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A 3D internet role-playing game similar to “Second Life”, except it is designed specifically for Blender.org’s 7 million digital artists. Users can create their own avatars, environments, and assets in Blender, then use the game to shop for and download other users’ digital assets for video game design, movie effects, or for use in the game itself.

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ESL certification exams are essential for employment opportunity in Vietnam but very expensive. This app would allow Vietnamese people to take the exam by recording their responses to questions with a phone camera. The answers are verified asynchronously by remote test-graders. The goal is to make the test cost 95% less than the next cheapest ESL exam available in Vietnam.

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The user pays $5 to see a list of 50 products, each priced at $10 commercially. The user picks one product from the list and gets it shipped for free. How do we make a profit? For each of the 50 products, the vendor paid 15 cents for the host website to be viewed by the user. The host site makes $2.50 profit on each transaction.

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Dhaka, Bangladesh has discarded plastic water bottles lining the edges of every street and filling every river. It’s crazy. Water bottles can be made into 3D print filament using a commercially available machine priced at $500. This company would design a cheaper version of this machine and sell it to poor families in Dhaka, then buy the filament from them and sell it to their Chinese neighbors, who consume lots of 3D print filament. The goal is to give employment to poor Bangladeshi people, clean up the trash on the streets of Dhaka, and sell inexpensive filament to hobbyists and 3D print shops.

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Business is all about networking and that means asking favors from people. When someone does you a career-related favor (i.e. mentorship, marketing advice, some free IT help, etc) you can write them a thank-you note and post it on this public website. Users can link all the thank-you notes they receive to their LinkedIn account so that employers can see how smart and helpful they are.

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When I was in college, I paid for a meal-plan and went to cafeterias. The food was crazy cheap because the cafeteria optimized every cost. No waiters, self serving, self-busing, and most of the food was cooked from inexpensive farm-surplus. It was way healthier and tastier than McDonald’s which is the only other place to get food that cheap. Replicate this experience for NYC customers, who have few other sources of cheap, healthy food.

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A website where users can read classic books, comment on great passages, and discuss literature with other users. English professors use it to make reading and class discussions happen all in one place. Repeat with lecture transcripts to see which parts of the class were unclear and which parts get students thinking and making comments.

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A physical product that sits on your office chair and stretches your legs in a splits position while you sit at your desk. For dancers and gymnasts who also use computers.

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Do you have a service dog that helps with anxiety, panic attacks, or stress? Use this app to find people nearby who are having anxiety and want to interact with your service dog for a few minutes.

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Human-Centered Design is a popular methodology that encourages product designers to interview end-users, focusing on pain-points and qualitative data. This is a website to post a transcription from a HCD interview along with dates and GPS locations of the interview. We use this data to create AI-driven maps of market demand for different products and services.

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Company A knows they will have a shortage of welding labor in five years. They place an order at this trade school for 100 certified welders. The trade school recruits welding students and offers them discounted tuition and a guaranteed job after graduation funded by Company A’s purchase.

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A website where you can find the important bits of any product’s “Terms and Conditions” contract summarized into 100 words by lawyers.

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A vending machine that takes dollar bills and allows you to place online orders delivered to lockers. For unbanked or homeless people without credit cards.

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Install this app and anyone that calls you has to answer a simple question to prove they are a human in order to make your phone ring. No more robot calls.

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If you thrift shop for a living, use this app to photograph an item you found in a thrift store. If someone on the app upvotes or offers to buy the item in 10 minutes, purchase the item from the thrift store. No need to purchase any items unless you already have a resale buyer.

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This web app has a database of current creative writing competitions. Fill out a form and upload your work of short fiction. The site will calculate how many contests you qualify for and submit your work to each one automatically.

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Have you ever been asked to enter your username when you log into a VR app? Pointing and clicking on each letter takes forever. This plugin is purchased by VR developers. Any time the user needs to type something in, the app projects an iPhone-style keyboard onto the user’s left hand and allows them to type with their right hand as they would on a smartphone. They can type in text inputs quickly and easily.

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I always forget to update my mobile period-tracking app. Instead, I want to track my flow, ovulation, and vaginal health with a bathroom tampon dispenser that keeps track of how many tampons I use and when. Never connected to the internet. I don’t need hackers knowing about my period.

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A device that connects to your 3D printer and shows you a life-size hologram of your print before you start the machine. Prevents mistakes, sizing issues, and positioning problems quickly and without wasting filament.

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22% of US households are unbanked, making retirement savings impossible. This app lets you play a fun mobile game that requires in-app purchases of tokens to play. Each time you buy tokens, them money is added to a retirement savings account that you cannot withdraw from for five years. Makes starting a savings account and paying into it as fun and easy as Angry Birds.

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If you just threw an office party and there are still plenty of cupcakes left on the refreshments table, upload a picture of the cupcakes to this app and any cupcake lovers within a mile can walk up and take them off your hands. No more throwing food away after the catering service leaves.

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Order a plastic product from this website. Someone who owns a 3D printer within 100 miles of you will 3D print the item in their home and mail it to you. Cheap and fast local shipping. Local manufacturing means the products are customizable and new ones are added daily.

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Got a really nice dress for a party but haven’t worn it since? Drop it off at a local dry cleaner and get paid anytime someone rents it. Browse other people’s clothes available for rent nearby. The city is your closet.

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Are you at risk for a heart attack? Download this app. If you feel symptoms, call 911. Doing so will send out an alert to nearby registered EMTs who might be able to reach you before the ambulance does.

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A plugin for your e-commerce website that lets users login with their Mint Account. Prices for each item are discounted according to the user’s credit score. Charge rich people your normal price, give discounts to poor people. Increase sales by making your products accessible to everyone.

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Order takeout, but not from a restaurant. Instead order from a local cook who will prepare a meal from their own (or rented) kitchen. Find cooks nearby with the app and sort by reviews and food preference. People become chefs if they want side income but can’t drive for Uber.

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Developing countries have a huge demand for off-grid electricity. This is a pillow that charges your phone using heat from your head, neck, and body.

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A swing set for adults that charges your cell phone as you swing. Put them in public parks or in remote villages in Africa.

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A Littlewoods retailer survey says that moms field an average of 288 questions a day from their young children. When mom is taking a nap, a toddler can open this app and ask a question with his voice. The app will read aloud from a database of prepared answers to common little-kid questions. “What are clouds made of?” -> “Clouds are made out of air, drops of water, and little bits of ice. Would you like to learn more about clouds?” Siri knowledge is an alternative, but Siri usually just shows google search results.

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Hang your wrinkled clothing from your shower wrack. Then place this steam machine in your bathtub and close the door. The machine will fill the air with steam, removing the wrinkles from your clothes.

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Are you an up-and-coming filmmaker in need of a way to fund your next film? Browse retail products on this website and get paid by the retailer for product placement in your next film.

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Use this web app to get your college research paper done in 3 hours or less. Search and read scholarly articles, save important highlights, generate a bibliography, and compose your paper quickly on a light-weight text-editor in APA or MLA format.

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Kids these days. They graduate high school without even basic knowledge of ______. This nonprofit helps high schools cheaply hire local teachers and tradespeople to teach supplemental courses. Local volunteers teach kids how to register to vote, personal finance, public speaking, or how to ice-sculpt.

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Are you trying to talk to someone at a loud concert or bar? Point your phone’s camera at your mouth as you speak and the app will read your lips and transcribe your words onto the screen for your friend to read.

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A physical device for your facet that measures how much water you’ve used this week. Helps you teach your kids to save water and help the environment. Get ahead of your water bill.

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Whether you are an entrepreneur, an artist, or an engineer, the real reason you go to college is to make cool things. This university is designed to let you spend 50% of your time on online coursework and the other 50% of your academic time making a cool thing.

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“For the office of customer service, press 1. For the admissions office, press 2.” Tired of listening to menus when you call a business? This app shows you a visual menu of options and dials for you until you reach the person you want to talk to. Idea by Janet O’Brien.

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Want to practice piano but can’t fit one in your tiny New York apartment? Use this app use another New Yorker’s piano and pay by the hour. Use this app to rent out other assets in your home for 1 to 60 minutes at a time. Your ping-pong table, your Xbox, or your bathroom.

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This website has a digital map of the world. Roll your cursor over different countries and see local news headlines, then read the translated articles. Get a well-rounded idea of what’s going on in the world.

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Fashion students and amateur designers can submit their best sketches. The most upvoted and shared fashion sketches get made into garments and sold on the site.

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This website lets you easily make a 3D WebGL rendering of your unfurnished living room. Drag and drop 3D models of furniture into the room until you have perfected your interior design. Order all the furniture automatically from local stores. Local furniture stores can use an iphone camera and Meshroom’s free software to convert all of their showroom furniture into 3D models and upload to the site.

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Fun and flexible polling widget that you can add to any website.

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A very easy decentralized cryptocurrency exchange. No complex screens. All the fat trimed. Super minimal and just drag sliders around.

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Weight lifting logging app with speech to text so you don't need to touch your phone between sets to record workouts!

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Problem is that RPA bots are affected with websites UI changes. If we can know in real time the changes we cam adjust the bot immediately.

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HD is intra-city courier Service which is like deliver-anything (except banned or restrcited items) types. We would be driving this through a website and a mobile app in later stages.

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Startup Name Check helps you to identify which name you should use for your next side-project or startup. The free service allows you check over 50 social networks and domain names in parallel - for as many names as you want. You can also get suggestions for other names.

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Quick question: anyone here experiencing Sleep Paralysis? I'm curious of the solutions you found. I'm about to put in some effort create one, but wouldn't like to reinvent the wheel. So let's share knowledge I'm thinking about a detection - wake up poke product

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A website which allows jobseekers to enable themselves to stand-out of the CV crowd and enhance the probability to secure an interview. On the flip side it allows recruiters/hiring managers to streamline the interview/hiring process (saving them lots of money)

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Wear out your kids by attaching this device to the petals of a stationary bike and having them petal to make their car in VR Mario Kart go faster. Use an included bike stand to convert their normal bikes into a stationary bike as well.

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It a website that offers domestic services. Where the user can make a better use of his/her time by reserving and scheduling any kind of service for his home. The services includes cleaning, laundry, gardening, technical support, handyman, etc. All payments are done online.

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Shutterstock for 3D assets. Anyone with a camera or camera-enabled phone can make and upload digital models using Meshroom’s free software. Once your mesh is uploaded, you get paid a commission every time a video game designer or movie effects artist purchases one of your meshes.

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