"A home for ideas by people who lack time, money, or skills."
Is it to learn a new technology?
Pick up chicks?
Be featured on RWW, Wired, HN, Reddit, etc, etc?
It seems like a good formula for hit and run success is popular new feature/gimmick from facebook, twitter, google, youtube add your own twist to it and then watch the traffic come in for 2 days and then die off.
1) Feedback Loop: Users submit URLs and ask for feedback on them. Each time they provide a feedback for an other submission, they get to view a feedback provided on theirs (hence the loop).
You can fine tune the system by having feedback receivers rate the feedback they've recieved (better feedback = more points for the person who wrote it = they get to see more feedback on their post or their post gets pushed to top).
I think it's a beautiful and self-enforced "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" idea.
2) Graffiti: This is a bookmarklet that allows a user to draw on top of a webpage (probably requires transparent flash). Of course, they can view other people's graffitis as well.
This would be pretty awesome, and has a lot of game aspects to it that would make it extremely addictive. For example, you could notify a user if anybody writes over their graffiti (eg, starting turf wars), and you could keep a record board for "most pages graffiti'd" and "most area covered", etc.
I feel like there's a very real possibility this could go viral and stay popular. And, I've got an awesome domain name for it. E-mail me if you're interested.
a firefox addon that allows you to draw on top of web pages in a persistant manner.
You may want to use machine learning techniques, which you can learn using the Andrew Ng's Stanford lectures (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzxYlbK2c7E&feature=chann...).
The reason being: When looking for something on Craigslist, I often send similar emails to several potential sellers. But then, when they reply, I have no way of knowing which posting was theirs (and the link to it). (Of course, you could contain the link to the posting you're referring to in each email, but that's a hassle that I'm sure most forget to do.)
I just want to do something creative that is "interesting". If there's a novel idea for a game, or a utility, or a visualization, or something else entirely; I'd like to hear it.
P.S. This probably isn't a weekend project, but you might get something useful done in a week.