Tell HN: Ideas sharing

I've had these ideas saved up for over 3 years now, I add new ones every now and then but I haven't gone back to remove ones that exist now. Anyway, since I doubt I would have much time to work on them, I figured I would share them here.

@-- ideas and scribbles

twitter app to plot tweets by the number of followers (x) and following (y) a person has

-- bar graphs, scatter graphs, pie charts -> compare number of tweets for search term 1 against term 2

-- -- weight the tweets by the number of followers a user has

-- -- -- those tweets have a higher chance of being read by more people

music app to generate good musical flow based on trends that someone likes

-- analyze a selection of songs: the tempo of each one, the different instruments used etc.

-- -- recreate new songs based on users selection

-- -- -- new songs will hopefully be good for the user, they can rate song

-- -- -- -- this helps improve the algorithm

using css3 or html5 or something, find out how to make text appear as if it's flying towards you

-- similar to stars in space screensaver, except with text, make a whole webpage just from that

-- -- users will watch the text fly towards them and read it

-- -- -- if people can use mouse to zoom in and out of the text that would be good

a smile goes a long way, but how far?

-- a web app where people post a picture of themself smiling

-- -- all pictures will be geo-tagged, try get location via app if picture is not geo-tagged

-- -- -- allow people to view a global map of where the smile has gone, maybe circular pixel growth

-- -- -- -- app could be applied to other things, not just 'upload picture of smile'

-- -- app will auto crop and zoom in on smile via algorithm (maybe)

-- -- -- only allow a limited number of links that can upload a picture

-- -- -- -- once someone uploads a picture they gain a new link to share

-- -- -- -- -- this link is now the new link to upload a picture

twitter app game - complete the tweet

-- the app will grab tweets from the public timeline and then display them to the user with words missing

-- -- the user will have to select the correct word from a list of 4-5 different words to complete the tweet

-- -- -- the app would randomly remove 1 or 2 words and then use a theasaurus to display similar words in the 'pick list'

-- -- -- -- the app should ensure the tweet length is no more then 140 chars long with each word from the 'pick list'

-- -- -- -- -- else it will display different words in the pick list or remove a different word or select a different tweet

-- -- -- -- -- -- app will never pick a tweet with a link inside it, or with rude words (unless people tick adult-version)

social public ideas website

-- allow people to post ideas with some sort of "open-source license" attached to each idea

-- -- maybe allow different types of licenses

-- -- -- hopefully, more ideas posted = more people stepping up and changing the world

-- -- -- -- simple interface, people should be able to post an idea as easy as it is to tweet

-- -- -- -- -- add trends and stats for different idea topics

relationship match - facebook app

-- grab a users friends and get the relationship of each friend

-- -- if a user is single - add to singles list, if not - add to not single list

-- -- -- check each day and update the singles list

-- -- -- -- show recent singles (past X time) in a display area

-- -- -- -- -- might be fun for people who want to hookup over facebook

data visualization tool - allow users to input data set and add rules to how they want it displayed

-- for instance a user could input various numbers and set the output as a 2D graph

-- -- then add rules where each odd number divisible by X must show up green

-- -- -- or each number that repeats itself more then once must start to become larger

-- -- -- -- or for each number that follows a number larger then itself

-- -- -- -- -- must have a line that connects with the preceeding number

-- -- -- -- -- -- the possibilities could be endless but also quite pointless

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- however could be fun to view random crazy visualizations

twitter tool to analyze when a user should tweet to get the most coverage/views

-- take the users' followers and analyze each follower to find out the average time they tweet

-- -- take all times and find out the best time the user should tweet

-- -- -- certain followers could influence the time if those followers have more followers then other followers

-- -- -- -- or if a users' follower interacts more often with the user, then this could have a larger effect on the time to tweet

dream job maker - website

-- users would log on to the site, input what they like/don't like in a job

-- -- then input where they would want to work

-- -- -- input as much details about the dream job as possible

-- -- -- -- then the service would analyze everything and work out whether the dream job is feasible for that person

-- -- -- -- -- it would provide the likely chance of gettting 'that dream job' and provide the best location for pursuing the job

using sound to draw

-- depending on the pitch, level, or even recognition of the sound - the application would draw something

-- -- it would draw in a certain direction, with a certain brush, with a certain size, and even a certain shade of colour

a fun infographic generator

-- so maybe you drink a lot of coffee and drive a lot, then write a lot of code, and eat

-- -- what if you could just fill in a weekly schedule and throw in a few times when you went somewhere on holiday

-- -- -- then the tool will generate a large picture with small images of how many coffee you've drunk this year

-- -- -- -- and how many miles you've driven (with a simple "equivalent to driving to moon and back" or something)

-- -- -- -- -- it is aimed to be fun and presented in that way

-- -- -- -- -- -- users could save the image and post it on facebook

the smart TV remote

-- software that records when a user switches channel

-- -- from which channel to which channel

-- -- -- which time and date

-- -- -- -- then learn the user and automatically switch channels after completing the learning process

turn last.fm artists into facebook likes

-- don't want to like each artist you listen to on facebook, then use this tool to import all of your artists

-- -- tool would simply get a last.fm user account and get the artists they listen to

-- -- -- then take a facebook account and for each artist

-- -- -- -- find artist on facebook and like

-- -- -- -- -- if not found - skip and warn user at end

music powered energy - tweaking the learning experience for a new instrument

-- link a piano to a device which is set to throttle your electricity in a certain room (i.e. kitchen)

-- -- the more you play the piano notes correctly according the current selected song on the device

-- -- -- then the more electricity is allowed to pass through into the kitchen to cook your meal

-- concept could be used for other things like throttling the broadband for the next 2 hours

-- -- or you have to correctly play a song to be able to log into your computer

what would text look like in a graph - simple web app for fun

-- take each characters' hex code and map it to a 2d or 3d point on a graph

-- -- each point could be coloured to show the direction of the text

-- -- -- multiple instances of the same character could show as a larger point

thesis generation type web application

-- generate aims/thesis titles using a set of noun-verb-verb-noun algorithms

-- -- app would randomly select different words and generate the title

-- -- -- it could be improved with AI by reading titles from ACM, IEEE etc.