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# Jacob's Ideas

A collection of ideas, brainstorms, and project concepts spanning from MIT hackathons to current AI research. Some are actively being pursued; others are seeds waiting for the right moment.

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## Active Ideas

Ideas being actively pursued or developed.

| Idea | Description |
|------|-------------|
| [[lifex|LifeX]] | AI-verified meditation session platform with token economics |
| [[model-skill-files|Model Skill Files (World Diff)]] | Community-curated world-state updates for AI models beyond their training cutoff |

## Brainstorms

Written up and thought through, but not yet started.

| Idea | Description |
|------|-------------|
| [[context-engineering-prize|The Context Engineering Prize]] | Competition to get small models to perform at frontier levels through better prompting |
| [[universal-identity|Universal Identity System]] | Frictionless cross-site authentication via a central identity hub and Omni-Link |

## Research Directions

Ongoing research and monitoring, not a single buildable product.

| Idea | Description |
|------|-------------|
| [[open-social-web|Open Social Web]] | Research into ActivityPub, AT Protocol/Bluesky, and decentralized social infrastructure |

## Hackathon Concepts

Ideas from the MIT era — some prescient, some playful, all genuine.

| Idea | Description |
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| [[thunderpledge|ThunderPledge]] | Kickstarter for collective action pledges — "I will if you will" |
| [[instaquote|InstaQuote (PhotoQuote)]] | Quote logging app with OCR for capturing passages from physical books |
| [[ideaoverflow|IdeaOverflow]] | Graph-based idea brainstorming with d3.js force-directed layouts |
| [[favorverse|Favorverse]] | Map friends' capabilities for mutual favors within social networks |
| [[political-donation-clearinghouse|Political Donation Clearinghouse]] | Cancel out opposing political donations, redirect to charity |
| [[shortcut-coach|Shortcut Coach]] | ML tool that observes your workflow and suggests keyboard shortcuts |
| [[pitch-based-scrolling|Pitch-Based Scrolling]] | Assistive tech using voice pitch to control scrolling hands-free |
| [[guitar-hero-typing-tutor|Guitar Hero Typing Tutor]] | Typing practice meets rhythm game — type to the beat |
| [[instadefine|InstaDefine]] | Instant word definitions with zero friction |
| [[admitsphere|AdmitSphere]] | Community platform for democratizing college admissions knowledge |
| [[bigscreen|BigScreen]] | Combine multiple devices into a single large display |
| [[emergency-pizza-button|Emergency Pizza Button]] | One-tap pizza ordering — minimum viable hunger solution |
| [[digital-oxford-libraries|Digital Oxford Libraries]] | Recreate the atmosphere of Oxford's college libraries as virtual reading environments |

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*18 ideas and counting. Last updated April 2026.*