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Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

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Post by beckler »

eksemplar wrote: post #16

A tool for managing software development that doesn’t suck. Especially if your developers are doing a lot of small projects, that while too small to have their own sprint or their own kanbanboard are too big to fit into a single card on Trello. Possibly something that mixes business and process models into it, but again, something simple where you attach a single bpmn drawing and maybe an architectural sketch to the…

I would look at clubhouse.io, or maybe cushionapp.com?

I've never used cushion, but I like clubhouse a lot.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

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Post by dhruvkar »

nulagrithom wrote: post #133
dchuk wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I work in the trucking (telematics) industry. I've dealt with a decent amount of ftp file transfers, but most stuff I've seen has been some sort of API based (SOAP, REST, etc). Can you give a few more specific examples? Are you in the industry now? Working at a carrier?

I work in intermodal. Whenever one of our larger customers wants to give us a load to move, we use X12 EDI. This is standard throughout at least the intermodal industry, though from what I gather that may also be true of over-the-road as well. An example 204 EDI (Load Tender) looks like this: ISA*01*0000000000*01*0000000000*ZZ*ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO*ZZ*123456789012345*101127*1719*U*00400*000003438*0*P*> GS*SM*4405197800*999…

I work for a stone distributor and we have issues with trucking, but had never delved into it.

This was interesting to read.

Donyou have more sources for gaining more insight into how this all works? I'd love to take a crack at parts of this.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

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Post by akhilcacharya »

mabbo wrote: post #77
rayiner wrote: post #6

Inter-operable video and phone conferencing without prior setup required. Probably half the video conferences I’ve tried to participate in in the last year have been a disaater, with people having technical problems dialing in, dropping out, etc. Even phone confernces (using VOIP conference providers) have awful quality. I want to be able to email some people a link, and with no account creation, registration, or sof…

Amazon has the entire company dogfooding Chime[0]. Pretty happy with it. Really good for video/phone conferences. Half-decent imitation of slack for chatting. You can join a concall via phone number + pin, from your desktop, or from the mobile app. The mobile app will even let you view screenshares or video conf. [0] https://aws.amazon.com/chime/

I personally didn't mind it, but I saw a lot of dislike of Chime internally compared to something like Slack. Anecdotal of course. Worked great for large chat groups though.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

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Post by akhilcacharya »

Thriptic wrote: post #84

Software development infrastructure in a box plus strong training materials / guidance for scientists. Increasing numbers of scientists are writing code without any formal CS training, and the outputs are predictably awful and unreliable. It is very common to find no testing, no acceptance criteria, no version control, no formal planning, no code review, no style guide being employed, sparse commenting, fragmented de…

I agree 100%. This is something I've taken to heart after seeing and trudging through academic code over the last few years.

In a way I also think this is a language problem. I hope that for some data-intensive projects productive statically typed languages (aka Swift + Tensorflow + Python interop) can help fix this.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

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Post by [deleted] »

jgamman wrote: post #119
Thriptic wrote: post #84

Software development infrastructure in a box plus strong training materials / guidance for scientists. Increasing numbers of scientists are writing code without any formal CS training, and the outputs are predictably awful and unreliable. It is very common to find no testing, no acceptance criteria, no version control, no formal planning, no code review, no style guide being employed, sparse commenting, fragmented de…

i can't see a business model - the scientist is already paying with their time to get something working that is just good enough for publication. all the problems you describe are down the road and scientists kick that to 'industry'. unless your 'right way' is also easier to boot, why would they add to their time?

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Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

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Post by robbyt »

rayiner wrote: post #6

Inter-operable video and phone conferencing without prior setup required. Probably half the video conferences I’ve tried to participate in in the last year have been a disaater, with people having technical problems dialing in, dropping out, etc. Even phone confernces (using VOIP conference providers) have awful quality. I want to be able to email some people a link, and with no account creation, registration, or sof…

Try using Ethernet instead of wireless, and make sure you have a decent router.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

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Post by iopeak »

kodablah wrote: post #4

I'll take a startup in a box. I want Kubernetes, Elastic, Kibana, FileBeat, Prometheus, Consul, Grafana, databases, HTTP gateways, etc all set up on on the cloud (or set of servers) of my choice and a dashboard that lets me add users (e.g. like a modern Webmin/cPanel+WHM) and make minor config changes if I don't want to run these myself. I want those things HA and I want stable hostnames for them (e.g. Consul DNS on…

Hey! This is what we are building at Asyncy.com - we are inviting users into our private Alpha release in about a month. I highly recommend you inquire and check it out. 100% OSS, full stack app out of the box using microservices.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

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Post by wiml »

0xdeadbeefbabe wrote: post #52

A new operating system that allows peripherals like network cards, monitors, sata disks, bluetooth, speakers, fmri scanners, etc. to be used interchangeably between machines, locally and over the net. Edit: I'm in the computing industry. Have you heard of it?

There's Plan9.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

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Post by atmosx »

kodablah wrote: post #44
franciscop wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think for a startup you need K8s and most of the things you have outlined! Maybe for a late-stage startup, but then you are already doing something so a generic slap-it-there solution might not be the best idea. You are describing a large-scale setup boilerplate, far away from what I'd call a startup in a box. Slap in a simple server like my own project [1] or no server at all until product-market fit, and th…

Of course you don't "need" them. However, I don't believe I'm describing a large scale boilerplate. You can get this with a few servers and a couple hundred a month these days. Heck, you can do it on a laptop w/ minikube probably (though obviously not ok to do in prod, just goes to show the costs are not the problem here). Sure it's easy to run an app. But it's not easy to admin it as you grow (even though you are no…

Who will troubleshoot when shit hits the fan?

It seems to me that you are introducing technical debt from day one because it’s cool.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

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Post by windowshopping »

dyim wrote: post #83

I do B2B sales (specifically, customer support for consumer-facing businesses), and I'd pay ~$1,000/mo for a service that solves this problem: Which warm intros should I ask for? There are ~1,000 companies in my ideal customer profile. I've got ~500 friends who I'd feel comfortable asking for warm intros, and say these friends each have ~500 friends. After deduplicating, that's ~100,000 second-degree connections, som…

You have 500 friends?
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