Audible is owned by Amazon. As a result, it should be relatively trivial to allow for integration between Audible and Amazon. It’s surprising to see an empty Audible library & wishlist, and no way to fill it except by adding books manually one by one. I already have hundreds of books on my Amazon wishlist,… Continue reading “Audible to allow importing any book wishlist from Amazon”
Category: Existing
Ideas that are meant for the digital world, which operate in spaces that have already been invented
“Amazon to add a filter for ‘number of ratings'”
Jeff Bezos is famous for focusing not on his competition, but on what the customer needs. He’s been quoted as saying – “We’re not competitor obsessed, we’re customer obsessed. We start with what the customer needs and we work backwards.” With that in mind, I find it surprising that Amazon still hasn’t put in place one… Continue reading “Amazon to add a filter for ‘number of ratings’”
“Amazon to explore a secondary marketplace for ‘used’ Kindle ebooks”
This idea is derived from the earlier idea I’d posted about around peer-to-peer lending & borrowing of Kindle ebooks. If you take that a step further, and tweak the lending duration from ‘x weeks/months’ to ‘forever’ – then it becomes nothing but a secondary sale market for ‘used’ Kindle ebooks. Amazon would be hard pressed… Continue reading “Amazon to explore a secondary marketplace for ‘used’ Kindle ebooks”
“Cred to allow users to change the color of their virtual cards”
Currently Cred allows for users to add their cards in the app so as to track spends and make payments on time. However, as you load any card, the Cred app automatically decides what color to assign to the corresponding visual card image that it shows within the app. The idea is to let users… Continue reading “Cred to allow users to change the color of their virtual cards”
“Online shopping platforms to allow customers to split their spends using multiple payment options”
Online shopping platforms allow for multiple types of payment options like credit cards, debit cards, online banking, UPI, and wallets. However, not sure how many people have noticed that there’s one glaring opportunity that is being missed out, which is completely in the control of these online shopping platforms. The idea is to allow for… Continue reading “Online shopping platforms to allow customers to split their spends using multiple payment options”
“QR codes should be accompanied by underlying text to reduce fraud”
The use of QR (Quick Response) codes has proliferated in places like India as it acts as a quick and simple way to transfer money to the recipient without having to even key in the 10-digit mobile number (and waiting for apps like Google Pay to live search on their database to show you the… Continue reading “QR codes should be accompanied by underlying text to reduce fraud”
“Differentiation in OTP formats across financial and non-financial transactions”
Not sure if people have noticed that we’re sending mixed messages to those in our lives who are less digitally savvy than we are, and we need to arrest this before it’s too late. When online scammers first started fooling people, we started telling our loved ones… ‘Don’t share your OTP with anyone’. Now when… Continue reading “Differentiation in OTP formats across financial and non-financial transactions”
“Microsoft Excel conditional formatting feature to work on cells based off what other cells contain”
Since decades now, Microsoft Excel’s conditional formatting feature is applied on cells based on what those cells contain. However, one often comes across situations where this feature limits you from what you’d like your Excel to do for you. The idea is for MS Excel to enable conditional formatting to work on cells not only… Continue reading “Microsoft Excel conditional formatting feature to work on cells based off what other cells contain”
“Microsoft Powerpoint to add a metric for white space percentage on slides”
For those of us who build presentations as part of our day jobs, it is important that we find the right balance between information (read overload) and design (read visual appeal). The idea is for Microsoft Powerpoint to add a metric in their status bar which calculates the percentage of white space on the slide.… Continue reading “Microsoft Powerpoint to add a metric for white space percentage on slides”
“Microsoft Outlook to track duplicate attachments across emails”
I have long believed that emails are amongst the easiest ways to create a lot of storage requirements at the click of a button. Most of us use Microsoft Outlook at work where we are limited to certain mailbox sizes as set by administrators. Outlook should have the ability to track how many attachments are… Continue reading “Microsoft Outlook to track duplicate attachments across emails”