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I don't think these ideas would take over communities neither the world, but they are awesome:

1) Some kind of crawler that goes through YouTube videos indexing them and its subtitles and then when a user searches a word or idiom the web app would show some part of a video that speaks exactly that search term. I know there are other services that does that, but I want something more natural since these services use some kind of text to speech with a robotic voice and not a real life situation.

2) An old school open world MMORPG with modern graphics and a mix of Ultima Online (PVP) and Diablo III (Dungeons) gameplay. Nowadays every mmorpg is a copy of World of Warcraft with a different story. There is no innovation...

EDIT: add another idea :)

I researched building this a few years ago. YouTube has this data indexed but didnt seem to expose a reasonable programmatic search interface for it. Indexing and providing the search myself seemed far beyond scope (would YouTube even allow harvesting all that?).

Use a chrome extension that piggybacks off of existing YouTube users to crawl YT (similar to RECAP for PACER), push to S3, process with Lambda to build your index and throw away the raw data after processing.

Bonus if you can finagle all of this with free AWS credits from their startup incubator offers.

Both ideas are personally music to my ears. I also happened to work on some of the titles you mention and a huge player of UO. What a game! On that thread, an arcade arena style PvP, where play is progressive and evolving. Basically LORD (legend of the red dragon) with today's VR tech. But Riot will undoubtedly see it and steal it though.

Nice to know I'm not alone! As for Riot, I don't think they would have eyes for anything other than MOBA.

nah, they're developing a game in the 1v1 fighting arena.

As for number 1, there is a service than find words on YouTube, and plays for you their pronunciation. I can't for the life of me remember what it is called.

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