All too often, I have ideas which might make a cool website or iPhone app or whatever and I know I just don't have the time to build them. I'm going to post them here in the hope that someone else might find a use for them. These ideas might already be in existence, of course. I'm not claiming they are unique in any way (although some might be).

You are free to take these ideas and do whatever you like with them. Of course, if they become amazingly successful, I could do with a bigger TV...

VoteSocial

A 'create your own vote' social media site.

Users can create a subdomain of (for example) comptwitition.com and create their own user-votable competition. The emphasis will be on inter-city/international competitions (my city has better manhole covers than yours, for instance)

When creating a competition, admin makes a competition rules page (choosing from a preset list of rules) an about page (premise of competition), chooses whether the competition is geographical or not and defines the level at which geographical competitions takes place (intercity/international/city street/etc).

If it is a geocomp, any image uploaded must be placed on a google map (or if it has LatLong EXIF, use that) and will then have the category (side in the competition) suggested. This should be overwriteable if necessary.

Images can be uploaded either directly via the site, via an iPhone app, having a flickr URL entered or a twitpic url entered. Entries can also be emailed or tweeted @comptwitition.

Votes are done via a tweet entered on the site. The tweet would be @comptwitition and include the user's vote and a shorturl to the entry page.

A site where people can post ideas for applications/websites/games. Other visitors can help refine them, suggest ideas for them, etc. If an idea proves to have potential, it moves from 'The Bath' (where people have ideas) to 'The Lab' (where people start developing it, proving concepts, looking around for other interested people to help with the final build. If something goes into production, it moves to 'The Factory' where a dedicated build team create whatever it is and keep a blog of development progress before finishing up in 'The Shop' where people can buy/play/download whatever has been created.

It's a way of getting the people with ideas in touch with the people who make things. It will have plenty of collaborative social aspects and encourage community feedback all the way through the process. People should be free to take any of the ideas and develop them however they like (opensourceideas) but if the community builds up around The Lab, keeping it associated would be a good idea.