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You call a friend over the phone but, here's the twist, it will hang up automatically after 15 secs. Better make it quick.
Value proposition: - Nobody has time for calls that last more than 15 secs nowadays - You're more likely to pickup the line if you know it's 15 secs instead of letting go on the voicemail. - If it's someone you don't like, it will only be 15 secs
Pricing Model: - Waiting to receive a $3B offer, turning it out, accepting a $12B one for Christmas.
Audience: - Everyone who used a phone and is ready for the phone experience 2.0.
Yes, I'm kidding!
1. 30 seconds would give you enough time for a bit of back and forth, while still being refreshingly brief.
1.1 Or, make it just under a minute, as you'd otherwise be throwing away the fraction of the minute not used.
2. Block the caller from calling again for x minutes, set by the receiver.
I'd love to be able to get a hold of call connection data and see what the average cost-per-minute of a call is. I'm sure there's a lot of calls where it runs 1 min 10 sec. or so, and that 50 seconds is wasted but still charged (as it's per-minute).
It would be interesting to try to get the partner provider to value a 'SmallTalk' call around what the actual profit for a call is (vs. published rates), for a little more transparency (and cost control) to the pay as you go market it would make sense in.
Wish my girlfriend took the same view
It also sets the women at a stupid advantage. I'm a guy, making >100k at 20 years old, with loads of interests, friends, great job, great life. I have to pander to women that have none of that.
I recently went on a date with a girl whos 25, all she does is game, no job, no school, nothing in her head, literally the most boring person on the planet, and just because she's really attractive and gets lots of messages on dating sites it gives her the illusion that she's superior.
It's less of a date and more of an interview or a "prove yourself" thing.
It promotes the attractive, and leaves the unattractive absolutely hopeless because if you have the best of the best at your finger tips, why the fuck would you settle for less?
I'll stick to real life where genuine connections can still be made.
One minute video conferences will reduce time waste and let you focus on your work!
Back when I visited my home country they had this very bizarre mobile plan where the first 10 seconds of all cell phone calls were free. So what you would see is people hanging up after 10 seconds, recalling the person they were speaking to, continuing the conversation , and then doing it all over again. It was hilarious. It got even crazier when some companies reduced the time limit to 5 seconds.
Our company will make you a Snapchat clone (put it on the app store, advertise it, the full 9 yards), but after 30 days it just disappears. I need an idea for the revenue model.
Just tell your investors that you had a business plan written out, but you saved it in SnapBox...
A free saas + iaas cloud platform that provides all the plumbing and infrastructure necessary to launch your startup in 90 days ...or else.
If your startup doesn't achieve exit or real revenue target within 90 days, you forfeit ownership to Snapco.
Else, Snapco takes a percent of exit proceeds and ongoing revenue.
</kidding>
You take a photo of everything you eat. The app organizes the photos by day. The daily digest view shows you everything you ate for that day.
This could be used for dieting (perhaps looking at everything you ate that day before going to sleep helps you realize how much you actually ate, as opposed to not thinking about it when you're munching bite by bite).
This could be used for personal discovery (probably everything you eat has an effect. You can start to become more vigilant of your food patterns by keeping a visual journal).
This could be used for medical purposes (need to monitor what you're eating, etc).
Anyhow, probably v1 is very simple. Version A might involve image detections. Version B might just get some mechanical turks to identify what you ate to make the visual data textual. Version C might let you make quick notes after you take the photo.
Brainstorm to where the app is something people pay to download or use.
[edited typos]
MealLogger: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wellnessfo... https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meallogger-photo-food-journa... Odish: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.odish.app&...
I don't know much about those apps though, so I don't know if they're actually any good.
(Though, I was eating in a company cafeteria. Combining photos with geolocation for popular restaurants could be a good start to a more reliable, if sparse, approach.)
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I'd suggest making it harder than Googling 'binary to ASCII conversion'! :)
Edit: text overflow.
I want 20 billion, cash no stock.
Mark Cuban is out.