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What Web service would you like to see someone make? Send your idea and it might just get built.

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by MistOne March 20, 2009 11:04 AM PDT
a carfax for property /apartment rentals:

a service for renters to rate landlords and property managers on key tenant issues. Currently renters are at the mercy of the landlords and have to provide loads of personal info without having any real details about how responsive the property owners are to fixing things and returning deposits.

There is a large imbalance of power here and more information would immediately create a better balance between the two parties. The internet is really good at these sort of things and the service would be valuable enough to buy a month or two subscription, while people are hunting for new houses/apartments.

Additionally many current web biz models could be applied for example: carfax.com or thefunded.com
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by jordantaggart March 20, 2009 11:15 AM PDT
findmyfit.com - This would be a social networking site that allows people to try on clothes and shoes and compare with people of similar height, weight, and build that have previously bought an item or one similar to what someone is shopping for. One would be able to create a realistic avatar of themselves to try on clothes based on their exact body measurements, and this site would enable them to do so. Then one would be able to compare with people who already own the same item of clothing before they placed an online order. These people who own the same item of clothing could become part of my network to share ideas about similar interests in clothing. After creating a personal profile of favorite brands, styles, and other preferences, this data could be aggregated to make suggestions of similar clothing to buy. This would add a sales aspect to the site that could be integrated with multiple online vendors for a set fee. Further integration with Facebook profile data would enable users to share their favorites with their Facebook friends and integrate other interests from their Facebook profile to make appropriate clothing suggestions.

Many people, myself included, order something online only to receive it four days later and find out they needed a different size. This could help prevent a lot of disappointed customers and offer additional benefits for sharing similar views and opinions in the clothing retail industry.
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by amandafrench March 20, 2009 11:17 AM PDT
I'd like someone to build me a website that collects data about the number of e-mails I get and send every day. You could give it your Gmail or other e-mail address and give it permission to count the number of e-mails you get and the number of e-mails you send, and then it could graph trends over time. Kind of like TweetStats. Maybe it could discover what percentage of the e-mails you send are replies vs. the percentage that you originate, stuff like that.

And, of course, you could friend other users and comment on each others' stats, and you could choose whether or not to have your own e-mail address revealed. People who send or receive the most e-mails in a day could be featured on the front page and/or earn points. Or demerits. :) Might help bring attention to the e-mail glut problem that Merlin Mann talks about.

Is "MeMail" a terrible name? Yes, that's a terrible name. Forget I said that. Seriously. Forget it.
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by amandafrench March 20, 2009 11:31 AM PDT
Addendum: maybe this should be a Facebook app, Gmail feature, and/or Thunderbird add-on with an associated website.
by anu_buzzbox March 20, 2009 11:32 AM PDT
I want a personal web assistant that watches what I do and tell me where I should go next. It informs me about content I may like based on where I've been and what people are going to right now. I want to be informed without having to scour the web and blogs. I want the data to come to me, but filtered based on me. I don't want to do work like tag, digg or some other form of work. Save me time with the least amount of work!
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by trenee71 March 20, 2009 3:02 PM PDT
I would like a twitter-like aggregate for all my RSS feeds not on twitter that will exist as scrolling widget on my Google homepage so I can scroll through the feeds without having so much real estate used up on the page. I want to see a short blurb and a have a clickable link to the feed source.
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by kcrg27 March 20, 2009 3:14 PM PDT
I'd like to see a web service that focuses on communication analytics. Whereas I could run reports on emails, Facebook messages, and tweets to see things like messages I have not responded to yet (that maybe got lost in the 100's of other emails I get daily), people who have not yet responded to me, people I am in contact with the most, time spent, trends, etc. Basically a really cool web app that made online communication more efficient. This web app would be beneficial to individuals and also businesses that wanted to track employee communication efficiencies, such as sales and marketing departments. There is already a Google/Yahoo Mail API, Facebook API, and Twitter API that would allow access to the communication data, next step is to mash it up, and then display the data where users can manipulate and run custom analytic reports.
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by iselin89 April 7, 2009 11:30 AM PDT
very interesting, will take a closer look at that:)

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