List of side ideas (1)
Problem is, most ideas never survive the transition between inspiration and jotting them down. Here’s a random list of dumb ideas I managed to get to paper before they evaporated.
- Simple/Complex tabbed notes:
- A writing feature that I want: For a single page of notes, have a simple mode and a complex mode toggle.
- Simple: Simple mode shows a refined clean version of the note presentable to others, or easy to scan for outlines/briefs/finished forms/presentation. A finished and refined coherent product of writing.
- Hides extra notation, detail diatribes, examples, and things like this very bullet point.
- Complex: Complex mode shows all the edits, margin commentary, expansions on reasoning, tangents, etc.
- For any sentence written in simple-mode font, I should be able to include a series more explaining a deeper narrative or rambling on somewhat to belabor the point. Like this very bullet.
- Basically, I just want a system where I can pass someone a note and cleanly present an outline without overwhelming them. Then if they are interested, they can toggle the note and dive into the reeds with me explaining decisions, adding clarifying language, and generally doing what I'm doing right now.
- Babel Scanner:
- Design a program that endlessly runs through the library of babel looking for recognizable coherent sentences. Review sentences for patentable material/food for thought/abstract poetry.
- When item is found, the location of the sentence is tagged by page, book, shelf, and room coordinates.
- Why use AI to generate stories when everything that has or ever could be written is already in the archive of the Library of Babel? All that's left is to parse it and eliminate the (substantial) noise!
- Book Abridger:
- Program that scans through books and removes all adjectives and all words contextually relevant to said adjectives, such as the "and" between "adjective and adjective".
- Shortens books a great deal but maintains their plot material and objective matter.
- Process books already listed digitally in the public domain, and offer their abridged versions.
- Excellent for engineering students, reference material, or students pretending to preform required reading.
- For non-fiction, exempt all material contained within quotes.
- Insurance Insurance: (Not reinsurance)
- An insurance group that you pay to protect you against your extant insurance company.
- A professional ombudsman on contract to negotiate with insurance companies, and fight them when they give you a headache by refusing the services you’ve already paid them for.
- Did they find a vaguely written clause that somehow got abstracted into justification for not paying for your health care? We’ll put on the pressure to make sure you get the service you paid for in the first place.
- Is your Insurance group use the fact that you are medically dependent on them and don't have the time or resources to push back when they up the co-pay or change your plan? We've got your back.
- Basically a specialized legal firm that you pay monthly premiums to just in case any of your other insurance groups step out of line or try to take advantage.
- Warranty not being honored? Car insurance lying to avoid doing their job? Homeowners insurance moving glacially slow so that you'll have to take care of your immediate problem yourself?
- Consecutive Sale:
- For each unit of an item a customer purchases, the perceived value of buying more more items at the same cost decreases according the increasing fulfillment of their need, and their increasing mindfulness of their budget.
- Offer a flat store-wide end-cart discount that increases per item purchased.
- A pair of socks is full price. 3 pair is 10% off. 5 pairs of socks and an iPhone is 30% off.
- Puts a scaling damper on a customer’s decline in perceived purchase value per item. Encourages customers to pick up extra items that weren’t relevant to their original shopping interests, and works across multiple item types. Someone might want a bedspread, and buy an entire wardrobe as well to get the cost down on the lot. So long as the scaling roof remains below gross mark up, you will never loose money, and your inventory becomes much more liquid.
- Works better than flat %off store or category wide, because it incentives customers to add more to the cart to get the most perceived value.
- Instead of creating unadaptive achievement goals like a "Buy 2 get one free" deal which only functions within a limited category and only appeals to those interested in owning multiples of a cheap commodity, or a set store wide discount which only gets people to purchase the things they already wanted in the number they were already going to buy, what about tying the discount received to the purchasers purchasing behavior?