Share your ideas
We need plenty of things to build at Hack Day, so we need ideas of what people want and would find useful. Please comment and share your ideas.
I’ll kick off with a couple:
1. A Twitter app which will send me a joke every hour or two. (This is what I’ll be building tomorrow.)
2. A small app which would let me post events to Upcoming which repeat, i.e. I want to put in the Farm meeting advert and set it to repeat every Wednesday until the end of January, and this app would work out the dates and send the events to Upcoming rather than me setting each one up.
Please comment with your own!
November 16th, 2007 at 11:50 am
Sorry this is not a very inspired idea but I’d quite like to work with SVN.
November 16th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Something to do with Android or OpenMoko…
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November 16th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
A web site where you can add geotags for web page that don’t have them, so that they can be mapped along with pages that do.
Linking a PC-USB-external controller board with a remote control car controller….fitting a wireless webcam on top of the car….and having it controllable over the web.
November 16th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
How about using the neglected http://code.google.com/apis/picasaweb/overview.html to send images to http://dailymail.photobox.co.uk/static/help_upload.html
November 16th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Display ical feeds in ganttproject
November 16th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
i’ll reel some off for you guys when i get a minute
i want a share (business/credit/financial/company) of these ideas if they’re built by the way!! seriously…
1 )
a site that has pages for tags, and aggregated content based on that tag. simple right? so…
http://www.cooltagsite.com/tag/brighton
would compile content from del.icio.us, flickr, technorati, etc by searching for that tag… on to one page. much like zooming out planet bnm and applying it to anything.
November 16th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
2 )
UGC content sales. this could be applied to something like mobiles. people create and upload their own mobile content (ringtones/backgrounds/icons/avatars/etc..) and then they can be sold online (and on a mobile site). boom, that’s a killer one.
November 16th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
3 )
webcam scanner. mash it up with something like riya to do recognition maybe. but also qr codes. build it in flash would speed up development.
user comes to the site, hits scan, webcam comes on. you then hold up the thing to be scanned, it reads it, if it’s data (qr) it’s stored and categorised appropriately. if it’s an image it can learn. you could do your library from isbn numbers maybe…
November 16th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
4 )
silverlight. build *anything* in silverlight and it’ll be cool..
November 16th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
a better Freecycle model that isn’t based entirely on email and uses a reputation system
November 16th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
A nicer looking Mailman interface for a new BNM site!
November 16th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
OMG Mailman really really needs an overhaul! good idea…………
November 16th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
Twitter interface that finds interesting people based on the frequency of key words in their tweets matched to yours
November 16th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
@Mat zoom that one out a bit
November 16th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
@Josh: Ummm, hang on just made that one up as i typed it!
Ok You enter your Twitter name into one field and the site scans your tweets then looks for other people you might be interested in following by scanning everyones Tweets matching words together eg. Flash, Silverlight, PHP etc. etc.
November 16th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
BTW I won’t be there tomorrow (me mums coming to visit and I don’t think she’ll be into it) but I’d like to see what people have built. I’m assuming Paul will be putting a list up on here somewhere?
November 16th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
@Mat: i was thinking more to apply the tool to twitter *and* other sites. a project that’s been in our list for a while…
November 16th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
@Josh: great minds and all that! Where is this mythical project list I’ve heard you and Dave talk about?
November 16th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
@Mat – yup, I’ll try to link off to everything I can from this blog, and I’ll do a bit of shouting about it on BNM too.
You should bring your mum along, I’m sure she knows some great jokes
November 16th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
@Paul: My mum is rubbish at jokes but I know loads of mum jokes!
November 16th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
A tool for maintaining a list of websites – like Brighton Bloggers for instance
It would need to record:
- site url
- rss feed
- site name
- description
- tags
November 16th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
A content system for schools where pupils can create their own space and upload documents to share with their friends, the class, the school or the world – facebook for schools (runs on the school intranet so secure from outsiders).
(I also like the better freecycle idea).
November 16th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
Idea 1 (Ruby on Rails).
- Capistrano task dependencies visualizer.
I use Capistrano deployment tool to install, configure, and deploy rails app, but often get frustrated when I do not know what kind of dependent tasks Capistrano runs when I run one task. I am wondering if there is a way to implment a script or task to show all the dependencies as you can do using rake with “-p” option.
Idea 2 (Ruby on Rails)
-Capistrano task recipe indexing tool or site.
There are lots of people who wrote great gem for Capistrano tasks (eg: deprec, railsmachine), but it’s not easy to find what tasks each gem provide. It would be nice if there is a tool/website to search all Capistrano task related gems, and index all necessary information.
Idea 3(OpenSocial/Google Gadget/JavaScript/Various API)
- OpenSocial App to share your event plan using Google Map and calendar.
It’s a bit like Dopplr(travel online site for frequent travellers), but more focus on your daily event around your home town. It might be fun if I can see who are going to which event all in one google map (so that we might just have a pint a later). It will be a plus, if I can extract data from upcoming.org API, but It might be a bit too ambitious to do them all in one day…
Here are reference urls.
http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/
http://www.opensocialdirectory.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://beyondwork.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/orkut-opensocial-google-gadgets-google-map-geolocate-your-friends/
http://www.dopplr.com/main/about
November 17th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
If anyone is interested in doing their own mashup or Greasemonkey script with the BBC Bangladesh River Journey, I’ll be very happy to assist.
It’s basically a mashup of Flickr, Twitter, BBC content and Google Maps and has its own API (documented here). Further info: http://dharmafly.com/blog/bangladeshboat
I’ll be along a little after the start of the day and am also happy to help out with work on the Flickr API, Twitter API and anything to do with microformats…
