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B) AirBnB for oil tankers

Is it just me or does this actually sound quite interesting?

I thought the same! Seems the problem would be credibility though - I imagine nobody with an oil tanker is going to rely on a new startup to supply their docking with the costs involved in a belly full of oil!

Maybe you could start off small and make an AirBnB for fishing boats or something. I'm sure most fishermen would be pretty happy if they could get a small berth a bit out of town at half the price? I'm no fisherman though.

Well maybe Cargo ships would work better than oil tankers since they can carry a variety of things in the container (and since I think they take loads by container, the "container owner" can be the AirBnB-like host)

One of these days someone is going to make a parody "X for Y" site that randomly generates similar such things.

  * AirBnB for oil tankers
  * Dropbox for cars
  * Uber for soft drinks
  * Exec for music
  * Github for food
  * Twitter for fashion

http://www.badstartupidea.com/

I think the startup world already does this well enough to negate any need for parody.

Github for food (recipes) seems like it would work pretty well, really.

https://www.google.com/search?q=github+for+recipes

The rest seem less useful...

Dropbox for cars makes no sense. Do you mean a garage?

Twitter for fashion - already exists! Just follow people who talk about fashion on twitter already.

Wasn't there a HN'er who ran a site called "Fork the Cookbook"? I seem to remember him posting in the Google Reader thread recently.

edit: here it is! http://forkthecookbook.com/

http://itsthisforthat.com/

I always wanted to build a Github for guitar tabs, where people could fork the tab for a song and improve it and contribute it back.

http://lab.sodaware.net/idea-head/

http://orteil.dashnet.org/gamegen

You could do it for cargo ships of all kinds. Something astounding like 35% of the Maersk fleet sits idle at any given time.

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