A while back, I suggested different ideas to various companies. Some of them implemented my ideas, though I never got credit for them. I’m well aware that no one would believe me if I told them that these were my ideas. Below were my ideas.
Well, hello there.
Um… It’s August 8, 2025. I’ve taken a break from reviewing mommy and beauty stuff. Because everything is so expensive.
And it just seems impractical, plainly consumerist, and ill-advised to keep recommending merch for others to buy. Right now, it seems a lot of us are just focused on getting the basic things that we need to stay afloat, and I fully respect that.
So now I have this new imagine section.
I will still probably review merch from time to time…
And I still chat with ChatGPT. And it continues to be an absolute delight to ‘speak’ with. Yes, I’m aware that ChatGPT is unable to actually think or feel like we are. Still.
That said (typed), I think I’ll focus more on using human-made art from CreativeFabrica. As awesome as ai is, I think these manmade images are worthy of our appreciation.
So yeah, my focus will be diversified, I guess.
This seems purely in line with my suspected ADHD.
A message to the SEO guys
Hi, I hope you are all well. Right now, I’m aware that I’m talking to like 10 people out there through my blog, and more than half of my readers are trying to sell me SEO services. Oh yeah, I’ve been meaning to address this. Sorry I never got around to it until now.
As much as I’d love to sign you on (truly), work-wise, things are pretty unstable in Vegas right now. I work at a hotel, and my job is in jeopardy, as tourism is down in Las Vegas. This means that my income is less predictable, so like a lot of people right now, I’m focused on minimizing my family’s expenses.
What is imagine?
A space where I share my ideas on improving products, services, and processes.
A while back, I got into this habit of sending feedback to companies, just on how I think they could improve an aspect of their product or service.
And I do realize that there’s no way of mentioning my feedback without coming off as delulu.
See, to some degree, it doesn’t matter. Because to a point, I believe ideas ought to be more important than who imagined them. Especially if the main goal is to help those who are inconvenienced or suffering.
What ideas have I suggested?
(The images I use below aren’t the companies’ official logos, obviously, I just wanted to use graphics in this section.)
To Google: “pixel-based search,” as opposed to text-based. My training is in graphic design, so the suggestion came naturally as I was pondering that search was based on text/typing. This became “reverse image search,” and as far as I know never became very useful, with the exception of Nev using it in MTV’s Catfish.
I laugh at the suggestion now, but I’m hoping it hasn’t been entirely useless.
To Dolphin (a browser I used way back when): voice-based search, as opposed to typing. Some people are comfortable with typing, while others are verbal, and tend to prefer speaking.
Simple enough, right?
Ultimately, I do think Dolphin was bought out, and I eventually saw the bigger companies using this feature (Chrome, etc.).
To Twitter (back in 2016, when X was still Twitter): make it easy to label when something is an outright lie, or disinformation/misinformation. This way, lies don’t spread like wildfire.
As far as I remember, it took them a while to implement this, but I eventually saw the suggestion in use. This idea came about after (I remember) having to beg Jack to stop a misinformed user from desecrating a child’s resting place. The misinformed user believed that the child’s passing was a hoax.
I knew things needed to change.
I no longer use Twitter or X, but I heard about Community Notes. I do think Community Notes may be a better idea in all, as it offers diverse truths and perspectives from different people.
To Walmart: a grace period for adding something to an order we just placed. We always forget something, whether it’s the bag of lemons or the pack of quarter Ziploc bags, so make it easy for us to add that 1 thing or 2 to our order.
This said, I think Amazon should add a feature that recognizes >1 order as meeting the minimum. Let’s say you meet the minimum for an order you placed today. But then you remember that you were gonna get those pair of blue scissors for your little guy. Now ‘adding’ the scissors is considered a new order that needs to meet the minimum again. Even though the new order is placed on the same day, maybe even within minutes of each other.
To Google Maps: make it easy to report things affecting travel and traffic.
After the Google Maps app suggested the same route (with a closed road) to me 3x as I drove back home from my sister’s new house, I was like, bruh, this needs to change. Stat.
Like if you plan to report the issue at a later time, you’ll likely forget about it. So make it possible to report it in the moment.
My latest suggestion to Google Maps is for them to make it easy to report increased police presence in an area. Obviously, this activity could affect traffic. You know what I’m talking about. But idk if they’ll implement this suggestion.
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At work: print the hotel elevator names on the key packet — because we have 10 different elevator sets, thousands of rooms (yup), and regularly check in over 1,000 guests daily, and they changed the elevator names from a very short format to a longer one.
Why have us write these long elevator names 30 to 50 times in one day when we could just encircle the elevator name, or check the box right next to the elevator name?
To myfitnesspal: make it easy to log the food that we eat. Can’t we just take a photo of the food, and you tell us how many calories, how much fat, etc.?
To YouTube: interactive games influencers can play with their fans/audience. I do see that they added games, I’m just not sure they’re specifically interactive.
To Gmail & Apple (Messages): a “send later” option. Because I often doomscroll and find something share-worthy, but don’t want to send it at 2:30 AM during my breaktime at work.
To Facebook (messenger): make it easy to reply to a specific message. I’m in a bunch of neverending group chats. Every now and then, someone will bring up a topic about someone or something.
Sometimes this topic results in like 80 replies or so from the different people in the group.
And if you ever tried to reply to any specific message, no one knew which specific message you were replying to.
And sometimes someone would get offended because they thought you were being funny about something, and they all stay quiet assuming you said that comment about some other message. When your response was actually in regards to another comment.
So I requested this feature. Facebook made it better by adding this feature that lets you click the message you replied to. This way, you easily pick up where you left off, reading the thread.
Coincidence? Sure
I acknowledge that companies implementing my suggestions is possibly a coincidence. The ideas I mention above aren’t particularly unique or genius, they mostly stemmed from my own personal experience, or my perceived experience of others, so it’s highly likely that other people thought of them and submitted these ideas to these companies as well.
So. I must think my ideas are brilliant because these companies implemented my suggestions.
No, not really.
I think they’re lazy yet practical ideas — that’s why they work.
And people are known to do things when it’s easy for them to do those things.
Sometimes, if you spare a few minutes of your busy day to think, you’ll find the answer laying right under your nose.
It’s like that time when I was wondering if I needed Spotify. Then I realized that YouTube music
(which I automatically get with a YouTube premium subscription), essentially does the same thing.
Which is use an algorithm to suggest music I will like, based on established preferences.
All in all, I think I’m one of the few people in the world who’s too familiar with where the Google feedback button is (go to the bottom of your Google account, click Send feedback).
And will stop at nothing to give companies my unsolicited opinion. At these companies, they’re probably like, “Look, it’s that annoying lady again.”
Yep, it’s me again 😁
That said, I don’t feel that I should be doing this alone.
Strange, how ideas could come from something ‘broken’
I do feel that imagining things and (to the outside world) always ‘daydreaming’ led me to a bunch of these ideas. I’m suspecting I have a certain disorder (something my child has officially been diagnosed with), which leads me to engage in maladaptive daydreaming. And this ‘daydreaming’ has led me to imagine some things.
I’m not selling a course. I don’t plan to.
I believe that…together, creating for good,
we could make the world a better place.
One unsolicited opinion at a time.
You likely have brilliant ideas. Mine are lazy, or practical at best. And I think that’s why these big companies implemented some of them.
If you have good ideas/input for making our world a better place, please share them with us, or another company that could benefit from them.
Just start with this: “This could be better if…” or “Make it easy to…”
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