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Problem: Any station you go to, you need to buy platform tickets. You might not have time, you might not have change, you might not like the idea of standing in queue.

Solution: We can build a mobile app that would allow users to pay using mobile phones or deduct balance from their balance (or charge in their operator bill).

@raghvendrasaboo: I've also been thinking about the Call idea that you've mentioned above. Although I use a Prepaid card but this idea came when my brother had a Reliance landline and when I used to check the bills. Let me know if we can work something out on this. I can be reached at ashish@catapp.in

A Tricorder kind of device for rural healthcare sector. For a country like ours, quickly identifying and treating ailments will be a big leap in overall development. A healthy person will work lot better, quicker and contribute to economy.

The problem with tickets are misunderstood by authorities. Instead of putting maximum resources for validating tickets and punishing violators, use the same resources to provide an easier way to buy the ticket. This buying should be easier than most simplest task. May be as simple as sending an SMS. If buying ticket is made easier then more will start buying and this becomes routine. There could be 1-2% violators that could be countered with surprise checks. As @Ashish_Chowdhary mentioned, a solution with operator billing is the silver bullet.

Seat belts in buses
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Traveling in intercity buses (other than volvo's) is mostly a PITA. Imagine a pregnant lady traveling with her older kid. What happens when there is a sudden break? The woman will come out of sleep, the kid may go and hit the seat in the front. Everyone in the bus feels a jerk and curses the driver). To make things more enjoyable, we rent/sell seat-belts to people traveling in ordinary buses.

Once you overcome the initial resistance, almost everyone who uses a seat belts is hooked on to them!! Imagine that millions of people travel by buses everyday, in India. If you sell/rent to just 1% of 100 million travelers in an year at Rs30/-, you are talking of sales of Rs5 crore!!

Greatly simplifying the process of designing and fabricating a custom chip. It takes Intel which has been in this space for the last 40 years about 4 years to produce a new chip. If we could simplify this process, we could have a lot more different kinds of chips tuned to different uses instead of only a few as is the case today.

Find-a-geek-near-you:

A half-geek living in an apartment in B'lore gets an idea for a mobile app while commuting to office in a BMTC bus. He promises himself to start on it on the weekend.

On the weekend, he starts work & reads that he can perhaps try a PaaS like parse.com to quickly get started with the app & not spend time setting up backend. However he doesn't feel confident reading parse docs that he'd be able to prototype over the weekend. He just wants to do the Android app. Calls his geek buddy, but the guy is chilling somewhere in Coorg.

He stands in his balcony trying to hack up a solution. He notices some guys playing cricket. Those are also working in IT companies & he has met them in lift. Who knows some of them know the skills he is wanting for his app. But he hardly knows what those guys do.

He thinks: I surely need to sit together with someone to crack the app over weekend. There are guys who can do it remotely, but that wont work. Why can't a guy put on a website that he knows XYZ skill, resides at PQR place, can hack for 5-6 hours on Saturday with someone in 5 KM radius. Can't commute more than that in this city.

Why not a taskrabbit.com for geeks open to jamming ?

That's the idea - Raghu

 

Adulteration is a huge problem in india. Be it fuel or food. Many more such examples exist. How about a mobile app which tells me which petrol pump serves the best fuel on a map, no matter where we go. Just scale to other areas.  

@khitchdee I think you'd like this!