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  1. Fully Integrated Google. All Google Apps and Google Cloud Offerings worked together seemlessly.  I built a solution to make configuration data in Google Spreadsheets feed into app engine.  I hired a programmer to modify a existing third party python library to pull data from G Sheets.  How is this lib not already published by Google directly?
  2. plate@car.gov All car license plates had an email address, so people could warn you before the tow truck, if you parked the car in a bad place. If you’re license is ABH-2342 then your email alias would be ABH-2342@car.gov.  And everyone would just know that.
  3. Public problem app.  I wish there was an app to report problems and crimes to relevant government agencies.  It would include some automatic reporting, e.g. your phone automatically reports a pothole when you hit one while driving.  The driver won’t need to pull over and manually report.  The smartphone would just know that a sudden jolt along a road means pothole and report it.  
  4. Kidnap app. I wish there was a facial recognition app to that was connected to a database of known missing persons so if people saw something suspicious they could sneak a pic and check if the child was known missing.  
  5. Financial Social Network.  I wish there was a social network dedicated to helping friends get to $1000 of passive income a month.  Helping friends could be as simple as donations to as serious as business model consulting.  
  6. Uber for Local Farming.  Shoppers can put in app what produce / meat they want and when (today) bulk order next month and then growers can get an aggregate picture for demand and claim supply.
  7. Affordable Franchise Database.  Offer a database of small businesses that cost less than $40k and can pay for itself in one year.  Should be same or lower risk than a Subway franchise.  
  8. No Video App.  Make a proxy server or Chrome extension that blocks videos from autoplaying or downloading when it detects that I’m connected from an LTE network or some other network that has a quota.  
  9. Affirmations App.  Make an app that contains phrases in two languages that you want to speak over your life.  Get something positive in your brain while also learning a new language.  
  10. Make service hostable on Google App Engine  where any Google Doc or Google Sheet can be served as a page and have css applied to it and maybe some extra javascript applied.  GWebDrive.

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