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Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
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Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
#162Software 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'm doing this - and have already made good progress. Contact me at wtpayne-at-gmail.com it you want to talk about it more.
Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
#163API Management and Api gateways for regulated industries like banking, finance government etc. With an eye on governance, IAM, auditing etc.
All solutions out there are horrible....
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#164Inter-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…
I have been using jitsi for the past year or so and the experience is pretty much what you describe. https://meet.jit.si
I used to use this in my company and while joining and creating meetings is pretty painless the audio/video quality was pretty crap. Perhaps they have improved in the three years since I've used it.
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#165I want to see a good identity and user manager SaaS oriented towards smaller customers. There used to be Stormpath, which was pretty amazing, but they got bought by Okta, which is less friendly to small teams and more enterprise oriented.
Are you talking about something like AWS Cognito, or Firebase Authentication?
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#166I am working on content AI platform (preadr). Preadr brings to you Internet's finest stories/content. It is a content discovery platform that helps you discover quality content that is relevant to you.
The Problem
There are currently three main ways we discover an ever-growing amount of content on the web: news, social networks, and search. There is a fourth category that is missing: relevance—a break from the noise on the Internet to discover what's relevant to us.
News delivers what’s happening in the world right now. Social networks let us know what’s happening with our friends. Search is great at finding the needle in the haystack. But how do we discover things from around the web that are new and relevant to us?
Incentives on existing platforms are such that new and entertaining content wins. We need a better system that can filter the signal out of the noise.
The Solution
We’re building Preadr to tackle the relevance problem and bring forward quality content. A platform that helps you discover most relevant content based on your interests, for both, leisure as well as learning.
Every day we analyze an ever-growing amount of new links and create a storyline of the most relevant ones. We curate content from the most trusted sources on the internet and let our algorithms do their work to filter the relevant from the non-relevant. Since quality is not limited by the format of content, we offer a mix of different formats i.e. articles, videos, podcasts, etc.
Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or maybe start small to test your startup idea and then you don't need a military grade server setup ready for WW3. :)
Depends on if, by "start small", you mean small effort or small money. Having those things I mentioned shouldn't be expensive, but are huge effort. I want to start small, but if I can't do something as simple as delegate SSH access or search my logs, I can't even test my idea. What I'm talking about is meant to increase the ability to start small for those of us w/out dedicated ops teams.
Just use a PaaS like Heroku? Keep the tech simple and vendor locking is minimal.
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#168I'm on the board of my condo building's HOA which has a number of things that would be helpful. * We pay $200/mo for a basic website with forum, some billing things, some file storage and other stuff I never use. It looks like it was written 20 years ago. (If someone can recommend something already out there that would be helpful) * Doorman accepts dozens of package deliveries each day which get sent email and tracke…
What exactly does that website do?
Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
#169Earlier 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…
Good old EDI. I last worked with it more than 15 years ago. I used to have several thick, bound EDI specs for each message my team was working with on our desks. After a while you get really good at counting the number of separators...
For small messages and loads, it's entirely reasonable to work towards near real-time processing. A possible reason why some EDI folks you talk to might be reluctant to think in that direction is because EDI payloads can go upwards to 10s or 100s MB. Yes, text. Instead of trucks, think ship cargo manifests. That could blind-side them.
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#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I am understanding your problem correctly, I did that for a large American automotive electronics supplier back in the 1990s - though back then 30-40 megabytes of data was pretty big. We trained a bunch of American and Japanese engineers on how to do that, but I don't remember any Europeans. I think I have an email address in my profile; feel free to send me something. I am fairly certain that your needs can be sa…
Thanks for your answer. Currently engineers can: a) try to plot their data alone and spend time on hacking the stuff together. This takes time as the guys doing it aren't accustomed doing it daily. This happens accross all kind of divisions. b) ask another team (with data scientists) for their support. Maybe the engineer has to write a ticket, or the person who should be doing it has other tasks, is in vacation, not…
I work in a similar space and one of the tools that might solve your problem is exploratory.io.