If you come up with a bright idea, write it down. If you do not intent to use it or you do not start working on it within the next month, post it somewhere (twitter, linkedin, reddit, discord community, dm it to someone). You are not doing yourself any favors by holding onto that bright idea of yours. Maybe if you throw it out there someone can actually put it to action, maybe someone can critique it for you to understand the issues to iterate over, or inspire you to actually do it. It is everyone’s duty to dream of a magical product that would revolutionize a teeny bit of modern culture, rarely do people share it with the simple notion “it is a billion dollar idea and I must hold onto it with all I got”.
It is as important to dream, as it is to prioritize and understand your value of time. You can dream of 10 projects per day, you cannot, however, start and end every project you think of.
We shall also consider current trends and realities, what might be possible but problematic today might already be trivial or futile by the time you actually start.
Some of ideas that I personally would love to see become a reality are below. I am a heavy believer in education quality, I am passionate around education tools, methodologies, resources and education accessibility in general, which is why there are so many topics of mine centered around the topic of education.
- A marketplace specifically for teachers to share teaching material: this is specifically tailored towards Lithuania and other countries with a) insufficient teacher work force, b) their own language, which often makes teaching material scarce. Why marketplace? People will rarely contribute to the cause without getting anything in return.
- Open tutoring platform: idea with issues that I cannot figure out how to solve. The idea would be for it to be forum-like with different topics and subjects, students and pupils are able to ask questions or request tutoring from professors and teachers. What I want though is for tutoring sessions to be inherently public. I could think of one possible process, where students have to pay for tutoring, and the professors get paid depending on the publicity of their sessions, something like 50% if it is private, 90% if the tutoring platform claims all rights to edit and redistribute provided content in the tutoring class.
- Lithuanian technical wiki: It would have been a real pleasure to find any information on the topics of physics, biology, math, grammar and so on online when I was in school. Why is it not possible to hire technical experts on even the most basic subjects to write their knowledge down into a specialized wiki? It is incredibly frustrating to see some terms in chemistry, physics or math and not being able to find them online. It could be a government sponsored matter, as, for example, more information on Lithuanian grammar could attract more foreign speakers, promote Lithuanian research, promote information exchange between Lithuania and other countries and potentially attract foreign top minds to Lithuania; or detailed high-quality public physics/math/chemistry courses based on Lithuanian production needs, which would promote intelligence exchange between top minds of other countries and Lithuania’s, attract young professionals for promising future within the field.
- Blur compendium: A knowledge page for every kind of blurring technique. Why? I haven’t found a thorough resource.
- Poor man’s shopping cart: An app for shop price comparisons. Every market has their own inventory management system, they all have pricelists, if I as a consumer have the option to optimize my shopping cart based on cheapest products, I am more likely go to the cheapest overall option. That would require cooperation from these markets, some form of monetization, would potentially lead to higher competition between the stores and their prices, which could negatively impact product quality and very small stores, but positively impact prices of everyday commodities.
I would love to hear your thoughts, my beloved reader ❤
