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by jderick 5782 days ago
Here's a couple:

TV chat system - used to find (local?) people watching the same show you are watching and form a chat channel (on mobile phone?)

Personalized news site - kind of like YC or digg but using netflix style machine learning algorithms to customize

A free version of 'vault.com' (reviews on employers, salary surveys)

Find a haircut (paste your picture, sort of photoshop different hair on it)

Underserved search terms: find some way to figure out what terms have a lot of search traffic but very few good results

Easy quotes for local business (eg, find a plumber). Enter in "my pipe is broken" and get a bunch of emails with quotes.

And one meta idea: a website for people to share startup ideas and form startups

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> Underserved search terms

This is what Associated Content does. And they are in Denver, just next to CU-Colorado. AC is currently looking for cool algorithms for discovering unsatisfied demand for content.

>Underserved search terms: find some way to figure out what terms have a lot of search traffic but very few good results

Industrial espionage at Google/Bing/Yahoo .. ?

most of these ideas are already done.. 1.) miso, philo, numote 2.) salary.com, glassdoor.com 3.) not sure 4.) would like to see 5.) redbeacon.com