An ongoing project to think creatively and produce business and artistic ideas.
- Learn music improvisation through short lessons delivered in a style reminiscent of 8 bit computer games.
- Backing tracks are 8 bit chiptune loops
- instrument and fingering diagrams are pixel art
- As an app, a user can score points, level up, create a character/avatar in 8 bit pixel format.
- each level is a lesson with a new digital teacher. The fretboard images are both view of teachers fretboard, and view of your own
- each lesson is presented in a pixelart space
- The last part of the soap bar, the small thin portion left after many lathers, is often thrown out or left to fall apart and clog the drain.
- Create soap bars that have a shallow indentation that could fit the old soap bar.
- sell soap online, where each bar has a personalised name stamp.
- Take a digital photo of any object along with a special brightly-coloured, square-centimetre sticker, and the app can measure the object
- The app will find the square sticker in the picture, save the pixel distance of one centimetre, and then measure any points mapped out on the photo
- a site that allows people to upload photos of coffees along with the name, the place they bought it, and the price.
- a latte ordered in a Collingwood cafe can be wildly different from one bought in Rome, which is different again from Las Vagas.
- plants don't travel well in the mail. The only plant that might would be a succulent.
- sell tiny succulent plants online. Each plant is potted in a connectable pot. Buy many plants and snap them together to create a small garden.
- target office workers, companies who employee office workers, students, artists.
- a childrens book with a 8bit pixel image for each letter. 'Barry the bird' - followed by an 8bit pixelart parrot
- An online place to search for producers in your area. Swap vegetables, eggs, offer surplus food to your neighbours.
- Take a photo of your latte art and the app will return an image that best matches the contours of the art
- Create a curriculum that tackles each subject
- Audience is absolute beginners, computer illiterate, anyone who feels more comfotabe learning in person
- Demonstrate using only a whiteboard, and explain the lessons concepts
- Pair students and get them to tackle the problems
- wander the classroom helping others
- needs a community space
- hire teachers to run the classes (only works when the curriculum is well definied)
- An ideas board for an organisation
- Post an idea, a problem, an improvement
- Give the seed(idea) some love with one or many clicks (like claps on medium)
- Each idea can be tagged so searching is easy
- The site has users, posts, comments, love(clicks), tags
- Top ideas this week
- Top ideas of all time
- Most innovative user this month
- Most ideas posted this month
- Encourage posting small and often
- Home page has a top ideas like Hacker news
- Seedbed, idea planting, stay innovative, utilise an organisation's best asset - their teams imagination.
- SHA hashing algorithms produce long random strings. These strings could be used to generate icon tiles that conform to colour and layout rules
- The icon tiles could be used as profile picture substitutes like in Slack
- The strings could generate a colour palette of RGB values, (x,y) pairs for drawing lines, or svg values.
- Find which words end with '...eed' or '...oger' or '...athe'
- A reverse dictionary could be created from a normal dictionary and sorted by an algorithm
- Stuff Todo A Bit Later
- Keep a list of interesting things, articles to read, topics to explore.
- Shared workouts
- fitness with friends
- create a workout plan and check off your workout by starting the timer for your exercise
- compete with friends who can be first/do the most/most consistent exercise
- guitar picks made from shrunken chip packets
- Foil-llined chip packets will shrink when placed in a hot oven
- When shrunken, the packets are hard and brittle and only 1/10th of the size
- Keep them flat when shrinking and then cut them to the shape of guitar picks
- jobs app that matches cleaners with customers
- become a cleaner and schedule regular jobs every week
- use a timetable view to book a cleaner in your area
- A place to commit to ideas/goals and see you plan
- Some parts might be immutable?
- Each account has a public facing page (Make it your homepage to see your commitments regularly)
- A book to write notes about the books you have read
- A website of second hand clothing where you search not by style but by specific fit
- Each item on the site is specifically measured and categorised
- When a user arrives, they are asked to enter their preferred measurements (take a favourite piece of clothing a measure it)
- a distributed postal service (ala Deliveroo, Uber, AirBnb)
- Parties include a Sender, Receiver, and Courier
- Track your parcel delivery
- Payment when Reciever agknowledges the delivery with a given delivery id
- Local market check in app so communities can see which stalls will be available
- Sellers can claim a spot and there can be a waiting list when the spots are full