Y Combinator - Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund

Good resource for ideas. Personally I've tried some things that fall into the list but nothing has taken of yet. Some of them didn't make it beyond proof of concept.

The one I spent the most time on was a few years ago for airline flight searching. The main idea was to allow people to track the price of flights they were planning to take to help them pick the right time to buy. I think that falls in "20. Shopping guides". I spent a long time finding a flight search API that was available to a small timer like myself. I eventually came across the Kayak Search API that was perfect for my needs. I got as far as a working proof of concept when I saw this post. Although farecast is not quite what I had in mind that was quite a blow. The final nail in the coffin was when Kayak started showing flight price graphs. Now I see recently released yapta.com which is pretty much exactly what I had in mind. Maybe I should have kept going?

Still that experience made it easier for me to join the facebook app gold rush with another airline flight idea Fly to Friends & Places. It's still going with about 14,000 installs. Not bad but pretty small fry by facebook standards.


So... onto the next idea. Probably a good idea to try something non-flight related.

Seth Godin - How to get traffic for your blog.

Looks like a very useful list of tips here. Granted the main problem I have is lack of posts but maybe following these tips will help motivate me to resurrect this blog?

This is me trying #35. I also set myself a daily reminder to post.

Eddie Izzard Stripped - Fantastic!

Saaan Francisco, San Francisco. Saw Eddie Izzard's new live tour Stripped this weekend. It's fantastic! At least as good as mine and many people's favorite Dressed to Kill. I would say better but this is the first time I've seen him live. Live is always better. My wife was in pain from laughing so much. Can't wait for the DVD but it will be a couple of years before he records that. He needs to take the tour around the rest of the USA, the UK ("otherwise they'll kill me"), Australia, France and Russia.

Just like a lot of his comedy you get a history lesson along with it. This time covering the birth of the planet up to the present day. Highly recommended! Get some tickets if you can!

www.eddieizzard.com