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6 Awesome Apps Begging to Be Developed

33 points| drm237 | 16 years ago |readwriteweb.com | reply

13 comments

[+] maurycy|16 years ago|reply

The recipe is: take any x, and combine this with any of mobile, social, real time, touching etc. (I once thought that readwriteweb is more interesting but it seems to be TechCrunch without what makes TechCrunch)

[+] jimfl|16 years ago|reply

"Full-Length Movies on Mobiles"

David Lynch has commented on how wonderful this would be:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiIroiCvZ0

[+] timcederman|16 years ago|reply

Isn't this already possible with the iPhone?

[+] pg|16 years ago|reply

We'd be into 3 and 6. (Some of the others are fine ideas, but depend on doing deals with other parties.)

[+] trafficlight|16 years ago|reply

The Minority Report display/control is never going to work. At least not in generic situations. Unless you are Mr. Bodybuilder, you are going to get tired of holding your arms out all day.

[+] david927|16 years ago|reply

#1 is FanFeedr: http://www.fanfeedr.com

The guys who did it are friends of mine and I think they did an amazing job.

[+] byoung2|16 years ago|reply

Not sure if those 6 are up my alley, but YC RFS #2 sounds like the perfect fit for an idea I had in 1999. Maybe the technology has caught up by now!

[+] Tichy|16 years ago|reply

There are lower hanging fruits for the time being, imo.

[+] jexe|16 years ago|reply

I believe you, but do you have something(s) in mind?

[+] frankus|16 years ago|reply

I'm working on #3, but the technology for the AR part isn't quite there yet (or at least doesn't have a public API).