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Ask HN: What are the problems that are willing to pay more than $1000 to solve?

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Re: Ask HN: What are the problems that are willing to pay more than $1000 to solve?

#12

Living in a US city that has no cars for personal transport

You'd be hard-pressed to find an actual city anywhere in the world that's entirely car-free for personal transport.

Venice probably is the only place that matches that criterion.

On Malta, there also is Mdina, which is largely car-free but still allows for limited car usage by residents. Still, although it's called a city, at a population of less than 1,000 it doesn't really qualify by any modern definition of the word.

As for the US there's this list, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Car-free_zones_in_the...

However, probably none of these places could be called a city in the narrow sense of the word.

Re: Ask HN: What are the problems that are willing to pay more than $1000 to solve?

#18
- Fully-guided health plan: diet, supplements, exercise, preventative measures, etc... SelfDecode gets very close, but I'm thinking of those reports analyzed by an assistant that would schedule and plan medical interventions, meal plan, provide accountability, be an advocate, etc.

- A system to build knowledge more effectively than whatever it is that people do now. This would go along with some sort of training to improve idea synthesis, factual integration, etc. Basically, activate my inner savant for the low, low price of $999.99.

- Direct training-to-employment pipeline: Employers provide the service a list of skills they need, the service generates a training plan, the employer approves the plan, vetted students pay to join with a guarantee of employment if they meet some milestones, successful students are refunded then employer pays the service a commission.

- A car service that shows up to do routine maintenance, clean your car and track major issues

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