Big Bad Goose LLC Public Ideas and Inventions

bigbadgoose-public-inventions.md

THINGS WE WOULD LOVE TO MAKE OR ARE ACTIVELY WORKING ON

BIG BAD GOOSE LLC / 2013

1. markdown rich text widget

   • create a textarea that accepts markdown, with preview
   • that markdown will be converted to html
   • implement by including a single javascript and instrumenting html elements

2. landing page generator

   • super simple metered cms for creating a landing "sell" page
   • a nimble CEO or CMO should be able to create landing pages with this

3. polling widget

   • javascript embeddable widget for polling
   • implement by including a single javascript,

4. internal (behind company firewall) upvote/downvote story page

   • recreates digg/reddit, but for internal company items

5. sports analytics service

   • obtain professional/amateur sports data
   • expose api as a service on top of data
   • prepackaged products include:
     • SMS alerts on teams
     • fantasy sports notifications
     • team franchise analytics for coaching
     • stadium analytics for merchandising / POS
     • fan base analytics with social media overlay

6. image processing service

   • image processing as a service
   • api to transform and return URLs for transformed images
   • prepackaged javascript widgets for profile picture scaling and cropping
   • novelty image editing, such as thought balloons, filters, etc

7. scraper as a service

   • easy to use and configure scraper
   • open source and free SAAS tier
   • extra features paid tier
   • service level paid tier
   • just sell data feeds?

8. ad diverter

   • chrome extension that blocks ads
   • and then inserts content you actually want where the ad was
   • eg. news feed, weather, pictures of cats
   • now whenever you visit any website, you get useful or entertaining stuff instead of ads
   • transparently sell diversion data on the backend
   • sell content slot placement