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by gradschool 1798 days ago
* a video conferencing service to put comedians in touch with audiences on whom to try out their material

* a stock market trading game monetized by trading my own real account based on the trades chosen by the players with the best previous returns

* a game/forum in which participants have to register their political affiliation, post checkable quotations from noteworthy people which are displayed uncited, and score points based on how many players they trick into to upvoting quotations in from people on the opposite side or downvoting something from people of the same side (e.g., by getting liberals to upvote something about wildlife conservation from Hermann Goering, etc.)

* a service for parents to create squeaky clean fake facebook profiles about their children from the day they're born until they apply for college

* ad-supported hearing aids