recipe sharing website that includes incentives for people to post good recipes (perhaps hold contests with rewards for winners)

also include text messaging service to get recipe ingredients via phone.

crowdsourcing important business decisions. your company needs to make an important strategic decision - rather than debating with the current owners/decision makers, crowdsouce. and much like reddit comment system, let the crowd debate amongs themselves and choose the best answer.

could limit the "crowd" to proven business execs/other qualified individuals.

software program for restaurants that will allow them to accept reservations via the internet and also manage their nightly reservation list and waiting list, as well as build and maintain a CRM.

this is essentially the same product as Open Table, but could be much cheaper. Open Table is surprisingly expensive for the restaurant. would like to distinguish it some more from open table, besides just price.

a way for a group of people to create their own insurance pool. maybe useful for insuring items or business or something? probably not feasible for actual health/life insurance.

a lot of people want to change their life, try new things, etc to increase their happiness.

this would be a list of ideas people can try, and feedback that can be shared on those ideas. they could be resolution-type things, like exercise more, or even just small "enjoy the simple pleasure of lying down on your bed with headphones on and closing your eyes".

a tool for large companies to have an internal posting of short (1-4 hour) tasks that can be completed by an employee within the company. enables productivity smoothing by allowing similiar departments/functions to share the burden during busy times and provide additional help during slow times.

a tool that encourages you to log everything you eat (via email/txt prompts with questions like "what did you have for lunch?"). it also allows you to share your data with select people (ideally family). so your family can see your eating log and comment on it, to help make sure you're eating right, etc.

could also potentially be used with older people to send them prompts like "did you take your pill today?" and unless they reply "yes", it keeps sending them and notifying your family that the pill has not been taken.

hiring good talent is so hard because you have to guess what the person will be like based on a few interviews and a piece of paper.

hiretest lets you get good candidates in for a few days at a time, so you can actually work with them before you have to make a hiring decision.

(candidates will get some payment for their time from hiretest, who charges the company)

you can post your diary online, and have it viewable anonymously by someone else - who's diary you can also view and comment on. its like being able to share you deepest most intimate thoughts with a stranger, but its okay, because its 100% anonymous.

allow people to make fun of one another and vote on the best insults

payroll for small biz

https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1k0xrQiwjqeDybwxul_aiq7GB_-LA3Uy0htQnSzS4wiI&hl=en&authkey=CKO4n5IL

service that creates better information around the rental real estate market. takes good pictures/video, floor plans, etc. if necessary charge renters for access.

create a website where every unit in your property will have their own login and password. each person will be able to login and talk to other residents and ideally the building owners.

however, in bldg - the tenants/public has control. it is a free service, and you do not need to wait for your landlord to sign you up (because that will never happen).

question: how do you prove you live in a certain building? (send postal mail)
https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1h7eo_p7JRwXeIIlz99DgKxG7_ZVjdQ3rjh_TH2zrPA8&hl=en&authkey=CJ74suEM

a way to create online communities where membership can be limited to people who live in a physical location. ex: an online community for everyone who lives on wilner rd, or everyone in 121 henry st. will have to validate residency via snail mail or some other method.