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Re: Ask HN: What are 100K dollar ideas but not million dollar ideas?

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Post by kristianp »

dsr_ wrote: post #42

There's always room at the bottom in logistics and scheduling. Find a local business that currently depends on guesswork, intuition and experience in managing their inventory or supplies or other shipments. Every bakery and independent pizza shop has point-of-sale software now, but how many have back-end software that reads the sales figures and can tell them to order [sugar, flour, cheese] before they run out? Even…

The bakery reminds me of my annoyance at a local bakery that often runs out of wholemeal bread by 11am or midday. Don't they realise that if people don't get the product they want when they want it, they'll go elsewhere?

Re: Ask HN: What are 100K dollar ideas but not million dollar ideas?

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Post by InCityDreams »

erybodyknows wrote: post #129
valdiorn wrote: post #3

My startup ideas :) I've been designing and building audio software and hardware components for musicians since I was a teenager. VST plugins to start, then moved on to digital guitar effects and now Eurorack synth modules. I've also built custom midi controllers, traditional guitar pedals, you name it, I've designed and built it. I have absolutely no doubt that I could build a small, semi-successful company around t…

Fascinating! Every time I read articles or papers on advances in ML I always daydream about their application to guitar tone, synth and sound design. I wonder how long until I can analyze a song section as input that allows me to play that exact tone/synth?

Ozone has an analysis section in one of their apps/ plug-ins. Sorry, cant link but you/ the app listen to a section of music and the software sets itself up to recreate that eq. What you seem to be actually describing, though, is listening to a section of music and re-creating a single instrument tone within that(?). Them's called your ears, or some software can do a poor rendition of it. But every note change/ background change would be confusing. Having said that, some software has come close, but i bet the 3 letter guys (and the ntsb)have access to the best equipment (to mainly isolate voices).

Re: Ask HN: What are 100K dollar ideas but not million dollar ideas?

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Post by ravin_gees »

gofreddygo wrote: post #136

For months now, I've been thinking and backing off from building a virtual queue for small shops (think barbers, food stalls at events, anything where people queue up) Scan a qr code, get in line. Or via a url or app. Sounds simple enough, useful enough. Friends easily pointed out issues with how this could go wrong and with very little extra time after work, I dropped it. Comments on this thread just stirred it all…

I feel like you could align a lot of the incentives here with an X cent “line charge” or something similar?

You get 10min, 5min push notifications, then if you aren’t in the store within 1 min of your spot in line being called, you forfeit the X cents. But if you are then they give you a discount on whatever your buy so the “line charge” nets out.

However, I’m not sure if there exists an X such that A) you’ll risk it for the convenience but B) it’s enough to actually compensate the store if you don’t go

(Could be some interesting behavioral econ approaches there, maybe?)

Fun to think about, thanks for sharing!

Re: Ask HN: What are 100K dollar ideas but not million dollar ideas?

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Post by ozim »

esperent wrote: post #55
dsr_ wrote: post #42

There's always room at the bottom in logistics and scheduling. Find a local business that currently depends on guesswork, intuition and experience in managing their inventory or supplies or other shipments. Every bakery and independent pizza shop has point-of-sale software now, but how many have back-end software that reads the sales figures and can tell them to order [sugar, flour, cheese] before they run out? Even…

> Every bakery and independent pizza shop has point-of-sale software now, but how many have back-end software that reads the sales figures and can tell them to order [sugar, flour, cheese] before they run out? Huh, I basically just spent my entire week working on this for our bakery (and the last 6 months on other software and systems like recipe management, team messaging, online sales, social marketing and more). W…

Not to say that small businesses cheat on taxes always … but quite often they don’t want their stock to be accurately counted.

Re: Ask HN: What are 100K dollar ideas but not million dollar ideas?

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Post by ozim »

drdrek wrote: post #95

Stand up from the computer and walk out the door, pretty sure you'll find your local problems there. Do local brewers need better distribution to stores? Can you connect local handymen with clients? Can you organize local neighborhood cleanup days, maybe supported by local businesses? You'll be amazed what can be done with the technology of outside, its like the internet just with real people! :) Some call it web 4.0

All of it is addressed by FB groups or FB pages. There is no money in that. Handymen are booked 3 weeks into future they don’t have time to discuss some Internet stuff with me.

Re: Ask HN: What are 100K dollar ideas but not million dollar ideas?

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Post by melagonster »

leobg wrote: post #154
gofreddygo wrote: post #136

For months now, I've been thinking and backing off from building a virtual queue for small shops (think barbers, food stalls at events, anything where people queue up) Scan a qr code, get in line. Or via a url or app. Sounds simple enough, useful enough. Friends easily pointed out issues with how this could go wrong and with very little extra time after work, I dropped it. Comments on this thread just stirred it all…

Had the same idea for a cafè at the beach we visit often. Reserve your place in the queue without having to actually stand there. Then again, if people don’t have to pay the price of standing in line, wouldn’t the line just get longer and longer? Maybe a better approach would be to send in orders. And the business accepts them based on availability and order size. If it’s busy and you just want a coffee, you won’t ge…

so this is Uber eat now. I can't connect before read your comments haha.

Re: Ask HN: What are 100K dollar ideas but not million dollar ideas?

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Post by dsr_ »

kristianp wrote: post #171
dsr_ wrote: post #42

There's always room at the bottom in logistics and scheduling. Find a local business that currently depends on guesswork, intuition and experience in managing their inventory or supplies or other shipments. Every bakery and independent pizza shop has point-of-sale software now, but how many have back-end software that reads the sales figures and can tell them to order [sugar, flour, cheese] before they run out? Even…

The bakery reminds me of my annoyance at a local bakery that often runs out of wholemeal bread by 11am or midday. Don't they realise that if people don't get the product they want when they want it, they'll go elsewhere?

Note that by definition, they sold all that they made.

It could be that efficiency -- usually oven space or mixer capacity -- causes them to make it in lots of, say, 50 loaves. If they make one lot and sell out, they make two lots -- but if the second lot doesn't sell out, they go back to making one lot a day. Better to be in demand than taking a loss on unsold product.

Re: Ask HN: What are 100K dollar ideas but not million dollar ideas?

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Post by tengwar2 »

One area I find interesting is ergonomic computer keyboards. My daily driver is a Kyria (https://docs.splitkb.com/hc/en-us) running 20cN choc switches. That's one you make and customise yourself, but there are quite a few companies that make their own designs for sale (e.g. https://shop.keyboard.io). These would be of about the scale you mention.
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