I don’t know why such kind of service still have not been invented. It’s not only about grunt/gulp or webpack but also about build tools of such kind.

It could be so useful: you just feed your github repo to the service and in step by step wizard create your config file. After all you have pull request with changes(new config file) to your project.

For me it’s pretty strange that the most popular (IMHO) task tracker does not have web application (only webpage). All products hosted by Atlassian is terribly slow! Almost for each action it reloads the page. Nowadays it’s not possible to imaging good online service that is not responsive single page.

I hope that they already started working on new version that would be completely single page. Also I could not find any plugin that would cover this possibility.

So basically my idea is to make Jira SPA like a core solution, or create a plugin for Jira at least for the most used part – Agile Board.

Making code writing video recordings become more and more popular.

I was inspired by great presentation by Tero Parviainen at NG-NL 2015, he made all his talk based on a coding screencast. It is something in between boring slides with ready code and life coding that takes much time.

I wanted to create something similar for my presentation, but realised that it could take too much time just to rewrite code that I’d already had. So I came to idea about such service that will generate video for you. I could simply provide github link for this service and probably some params like speed of typing and may be something else and it will generate nice video file for you. Technically it should not be difficult – you just start virtual machine and run some software to imitate code typing, it could be even javascript.

For front-end code next step could be the option to record not only code typing but also browser output(with livereload), maybe also with opened console.

It should be nice service to make awesome coding presentation and save a lot of time!

Idea brought by Oleg Polovets. Oleg, I hope you don’t mind sharing it here. The idea quite simple, but more the useful for popular open-source projects.

Usually if your open-source solution is widely used you have a quite big backlog with requests to update some parts of your code. And in almost all the cases you don’t have time to cover them all immediately. So which one to take first?

What if we organise something like a poll for each backlog issue? But to make votes even more exact we will ask users not just click the button, but to donate for each vote. By this will filter votes of users that really need this issue.

Robomongo already does so. But the idea is to create a service(I called it BacklogDonator) that could be easily connected to your github repo and provide such kind of list.

Why not to create service to show free parking spots? No, not only one parking area, for all nearest parkings by exact location. It could be web-site, web-app or mobile app, also extension for existing car navigation systems. It could be even just API for another companies.

Why it could be handy?

Yes, we can open something like google maps and ask for nearest parking:

Yes, it’s good option. But what if all of them are full? May be some of them are closed. I had terrible experience looking for a parking place for about 2 hours. I had only 6 hours to travel around the city, so it was pretty crucial.

Almost all paid parking garages already have automated check and show you amount of available spots.

so we need only to connect their local systems to our database that they could provide us information. Our side – it’s only simple API. From their side could be much more difficult, because you don’t know what kind of software is installed there. But parking providing companies should be interested in such kind of connection, because it’s extra promotion for them.

The situation with public parkings is not that clear. It could be solved only with each municipality individually. Before discussion it’s good to have concrete technical solution. I googled a bit and found that a lot of similar technical devices had already been made. For example this one:

Also you probably would need to get support of internet provider that also should not be difficult. Media/internet provider will get extra service that would be available for free only for users of this provider. Nice offer, isn’t it?

When you finish with the negotiation stage you can start build our application. To have first quick prototype we could use google maps api, only put there our parking info sings:

Of course, like with other startups the main thing is to make our service popular. For this you probably need to implement such solution only for several cities. And after… just provide API to other parking companies.

…and well done.

If you want to use this idea – please read the welcome note :)

I decided to create special category where I’ll describe all ideas of projects (or startup if you want) which came into my mind. Ideas from real and virtual world. Ideas that have right for life, but for a long time continue to be  at the embryo stage. I do not want to store them in my head, otherwise the warehouse will be full and there will be no place for new ideas.

If you find something interesting for you and would like to bring it to life – you are more than welcome!

It would be also interesting to hear your thought about these ideas.

[now the same in Russian]

Решил сделать специальный раздел, где описывать все идеи проектов (если хотите – “стартапов”), которые приходят в голову. Идеи как реального, так и виртуального мира. Идеи, которые имеют право на жизнь, но при этом долгое время продолжают находится на стадии эмбриона. Я не хочу их складировать в голове, иначе склад переполнится и для новых идей места уже не будет.

Если найдете среди них что-то, что вы заходите воплотить в жизнь – пожалуйста! Используйте их на здоровье.

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