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Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by lucretian »

unexaminedlife wrote: post #72
tmamic wrote: post #43

Dental treatments, besides being very expensive, are often (up to 28%) unnecessary. This happens because no-one keeps dentists in check. I am trying to make dental treatment and diagnosis reviews easy, cheap, reliable and fast.

I've been wanting to disrupt orthodontistry for quite a long time. With the state of 3d scanners, 3d printers, 3d software modeling, why hasn't the market price of orthodontist treatments dropped to cost-of-materials yet? As soon as at least one satisfactory / integrated open-source stack exists I think it's only a matter of time before it does...

a dentist's expertise is hard to displace. not everyone can be bob mortimer...

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by mkl »

m00dy wrote: post #29
TheFiend7 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I fail to understand what your product offering is by looking at your site. Could explain what exactly is trying to be achieved by this product and why I would even want a carbon credit cert?

You would want a carbon credit certificate to save this planet basically.

I don't think clicking a green run button will save the planet. I don't understand either. Your site doesn't seem to have any actual information about the carbon offsets or who does them or where or how it relates to the API. What do you actually do?

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by acwan93 »

jlevers wrote: post #85
acwan93 wrote: post #80

Pivoting my parents' homegrown ERP business from the traditional software sales model (one-time sale with annual support contracts) to a SaaS model with MRR to grow and scale the company. This also comes with changing the organization’s mindset and tools used. I have to say that the technical challenges of bringing in modern web technologies to interface with legacy systems has been an interesting (and frustrating at…

That sounds really cool -- I'd be interested to hear more about some of the hurdles you've encountered integrating modern web tech and old enterprise software. Any particularly notable challenges you'd be willing to share?

It comes down to working on a project that’s been continuously changing over the span of three decades. Over the years my parents have customized their offerings to account for numerous clients (our focus is on wholesale distributors). Keeping track of inventory gets especially complicated when you start dealing with variants such as colors, sizes, perishables, and pre-packaged goods (our customers sell in pallets or individually).

Because of this the systems end up become getting fragmented over time to handle all these different cases and specific needs for customers. Before I joined, the developers have attempted to unify as much as they could, but the business need wasn’t quite there to justify it as much as it should.

Building out our initial SaaS offerings have helped a lot for us since there’s the concept of only having one set of code running on an instance. Because of that, we’re able to abstract away all of the different nuances of each system such that the cloud servers don’t end up in a fragmented state as well, but leaving the on-premise legacy system as it is for now. The plan is for the core ERP to eventually move in that direction, but so far we’re chipping away all the edge add-ons and functions first, such as API integrations with Shopify, Amazon, etc. and building e-commerce storefronts for our customers in React/Node.js.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by dhruvkar »

standardized tracking for shipping containers

currently tracking is limited either by A) type of transportation (ships, rail, trucks) or B) by the Freight Forwarding company.

If you use multiple freight forwarders, you're stuck entering data from PDFs into spreadsheets to create your own custom usable dashboard.

If you use one freight forwarder, you have access to the main journey points, either as a spreadsheet, or if they're more sophisticated, through a web app. But I've only found one (silicon valley backed) Freight Forwarder [0] that gives the last-mile data -- e.g. last free pickup dates, pickup numbers, last free dropoff dates, return locations etc. -- through their web app.

This is critical for managing warehouse operations, especially for companies that handle their own last-mile (like we do), and it's been an absolute pain as we've scaled.

0: https://www.flexport.com

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by austincheney »

I am working on exposing the file system to the web browser using OS like GUI controls and then selectively sharing parts of it to specified users with security controls. It’s kind of like turning your computer into a private cross-OS shared drive.

The problem this solves is sharing. Sharing between devices/users should be as simple as copy/paste initiated by either user like everything is local.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by kop316 »

Interesting to me:

https://github.com/ikorb/gcvideo

GCvideo has a way to convert the digital signal on the N64 into composite video, and has VHDL to create an HDMI signal With Audio. So I have been working on finding the digital Audio out on the N64, and converting the whole signal to HDMI.

In not so many words, I am recreating this from scratch: https://www.retrorgb.com/ultrahdmi.html

Mainly because it is impossible to find that.

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