Coupon Searching Site

Say you want to go to Vegas. You don't want to incessantly receive groupons for a city you know nothing about. Or you don't want all the stupid Spa deals. You only want GOOD restaurant recommendations? Within 2 miles of your hotel? No problem. This site only sends you emails for specific days for specific deals for specific cities - deals that are highly rated on Yelp or recommended through good magazines. That way, you ONLY get the good deals and don't have to read and research them all yourself.

Move My Car!

A decal on your driver-side window, passenger-side window, rear window, and windshield that says "Move Your Car!" If someone parks illegally (say, in front of a driveway, etc.), they can call or text a number. In the text message, they include the vehicle ID, followed by a space, then a message to the owner of the vehicle ("Your Toyota is blocking my driveway. I'm calling a tow truck if you're not here in three minutes.")

Room Design App

An app that allows you to design a room. It takes the measurements of a given room and allows you to add doors, walls, windows, tables, beds, nightstands, etc. You select a shape (like a circle or square) and give it a custom name (like "bed" or "nightstand" or "dining room table") and a dimension, then drag it where you like in room. You can, of course, re-select it and change the dimensions or name or delete it entirely. You can save rooms, layouts, etc.

A purchased version of the app puts a folder onto your device, which you can add your own custom shapes to, if you like. It also allows for infinite saves instead of just two rooms. It adds color. You can save it as a PDF onto your or as an image to go into your gallery.

Dueling DJ's App

Imagine going to a bar or a restaurant where the music is ENTIRELY controlled by the people at the bar. Anyone who has an Android or iPhone is able to put a song in the radio queue. They would post it from THEIR OWN phone, so it could be ANYTHING... their own demo, a top 20, a parody song, whatever. Songs would be (basically) uploaded (or streamed?) by the users' devices and (if on a central playing system) would be deleted as soon as they are played. The bar/restaurant could also have immediate overwrite controls, or give privilege to their employees' music, etc. (that might be a bad idea because then users wouldn't be driving it as much... perhaps it's best ENTIRELY user-driven).

Other people in the bar could vote down a song or vote up a song and, depending on how songs are reviewed by listeners, they could be cut from the list or over-ruled as cut and stay on. There could even be a count-down of some sort that interfaces with the app. As more and more people vote the song down, the countdown until it is cut increases. And there has to be a minimum number of votes to cut a song. Perhaps every vote cuts off 5 seconds from the end of the song and at least 30 seconds (or 20% or whatever) has to be voted off for it to be cut. A banner would say "This song is scheduled to be cut in 1 minute..." A vote to keep the song on would grant it an extra 5 seconds.

It's like a dueling piano bar---only instead of pianos, all of the music is uniquely generated by the users. The restaurant/bar never has to own any of the music (unless they want to?).

If someone LEAVES the bar/restaurant (or travels some odd-distance from the bar) then they lose their place in the queue after a certain amount of time.

How does this make money? Well, perhaps ads. OR, like a dueling piano bar, users can PAY to vote down or up a song. Perhaps $1 is worth 10 votes. OR users could PAY to move their song up in the queue. A prompt could say "Your song is number 54 in the queue. Pay $.25 to move it up to #24, pay $1 to move it to #10, pay $5 to move it to #5, $20 to play it next, etc." People could "buy votes" in bulk if they wanted to. Profits could be shared with the bar/restaurant.

Musicians get a credit, and perhaps somehow, we could post a link to buy the song on iTunes or Amazon MP3 or wherever, and take a cut from that. Maybe our app could interface with the app that knows what songs are playing  to determine what song it is.

Magnetic Game

There needs to be a game that is entirely magnetized... where the pieces "float" because of the reverse polarity.

Dollar Day DVD's

A DVD rental place that rents out DVD's for $1/day or $0.10/hour. New Releases are $1.50/day or $0.15/hour. Blu-rays are $2/day or $0.20/hour. Accounts would require a credit card to be opened and kept on file. Accounts would work on a cashless, deduction-based system. Account users would spend $20 up-front, and their account would be deducted as they rent. Receipts would print time stamps of when something was rented and outstanding balances.

We would need a system that automatically checks in DVD's as they are placed through the slot. Cameras would record people as they check in DVD's, too. A screen would read back to the person checking in the DVD that the DVD has been received and they have been deducted whatever amount of money from their account. If the system ever messes up, there is a backup video of the person dropping off the DVD.

Perhaps there would be a way for the check-in system to automatically alphabetize the movies. Maybe a two-layer system where, on the top row, would be all the rentable DVD's (which would be in custom cases like the Redbox DVD's). On the bottom row would be all the cases of currently-out DVD's. When a DVD is returned, it kicks out the case, and the employees can put them back on the wall.

There would need to be a back-up if the system failed.

Golden Gate Games

To form an LLC for Golden Gate Games, I need $600 and $150/year. I need an NDA for anyone (Matthew Ronin) doing art for Cribbage Confetti.