I've wanted to build this as a service (for fun). Basically a sight to give advice to yourself from two years in the past. Why two years? It's long enough to have some perspective while retaining enough detail to be useful. The fun bit would be that you would have to contribute your advice before you got advice from people similar to yourself.
It would be a lot of fun to try to get basic demographics out of people giving the advice and try to find out the best way to pair advice given with advice seekers. Age? Some life choice your contemplating? Gender/Orientation/Race who knows what would make advice actually useful!
Probably a terrible idea but it's fun to think about.
Seems like a neat use for massive cross sectional data. The more people share the closer their advice can be tailored to someone like them 2 years ago. Similar applies for receiving advice. I’m thinking like an okcupid style question system.
But please build in a way to undo all those previous questions and answers with an account. Sometimes everything changes for somebody. Or they meet the love of their life and should be able to add that into their current perspective.
Might be a good way to help people bracket the bigger life changes and realize they need to make them.
I'd like the advice to be more targeted. For example if I started programming two years ago maybe now I know I should have cared more about SQL and done a project that includes that. After giving your advice and describing yourself you would get a top-x list of advice you could vote on, but I'd like it to encourage specificity over generality.
It would be a lot of fun to try to get basic demographics out of people giving the advice and try to find out the best way to pair advice given with advice seekers. Age? Some life choice your contemplating? Gender/Orientation/Race who knows what would make advice actually useful!
Probably a terrible idea but it's fun to think about.