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Ask HN: What are your saved side project/business ideas?

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A lot of us probably keep an ever growing list of ideas that we think would be a good idea, but realistically won’t ever get around to it.

Would be interesting to see some ideas that other people have thought of. It’s probable that some ideas already have people executing on them, whether successfully or not. I definitely haven’t gone through my list to see how many actually already exist (probably all of them).

I’ll start with one of mine:

There are a few different browsers and each have their own extensions. It would be convenient if there was some common unified interface/abstraction for browser extensions such that I (if I was going to develop an extension) could develop against that interface/abstraction and have it work on all browsers. And shield me as much as possible from browser extension changes.

I want to build a kernel module that should allow bringing multiple boxes together to appear as a single huge machine. RAM, disk, processes all should appear one.

And the end goal is to have no moving parts outside the system and that should be capable of replacing any cluster orchestrator. Specifically Kubernetes.

That's a huge thing in scope and my skill set is limited. Maybe, someday. If not me, someone else.

Could this be like Apache Mesos, i.e. a heterogeneous compute cluster?

https://mesos.apache.org/documentation/latest/architecture/

No, more like Kubernetes. Mesos lost the race long time ago. Kubernetes has won.

But my idea is more like, on the terminal, the ps utility gives you list of processes and a column indicating machine they are scheduled on.

Like all the standard tooling pretty much should work.

> It would be convenient if there was some common unified interface/abstraction for browser extensions

These days Firefox and Safari support Chrome's API, so isn't there effectivly a common interface already? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_extension

Userscripts also use a common interface (for now)

Who knows what will happen after Manifest v3

TIL. This was an old one on the list .

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