Ask HN: Which product would you like to see open sourced?

Posted by bluerail on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @07:31AM
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Re:Ask HN: Which product would you like to see open sourced? by mtmail on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @08:13AM (#8996577)

Geographic data, especially postal codes. In a lot (most?) countries the postal office is sponsored using tax payer money, but acts like a corporation, sells the data and adds various restrictions to the data. Newest example is Ireland where postcodes are about to get introduced: you can't get a full list of postcodes without paying.

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Re:Ask HN: Which product would you like to see open sourced? by AznHisoka on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @04:20PM (#8999901)

Google Translate.

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Re:Ask HN: Which product would you like to see open sourced? by LarryMade2 on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @09:14AM (#8996848)

Facebook - that would be interesting...

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Re:Ask HN: Which product would you like to see open sourced? by AznHisoka on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @04:20PM (#8999899)

That's just diaspora, or any of those open source apps that let you post/view feeds. Nothing interesting. Open source the graph search algorithm and perhaps..

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Re:Ask HN: Which product would you like to see open sourced? by Quequau on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @08:32AM (#8996679)

All of IBM's Watson.

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