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#191

Automation of work. I believe as the number of daily applications we use increases and the number of available APIs increase, the need for automation across these applications increases. https://bustl-app.com - A SaaS product that acts as a personal assistant that will integrate with a range of different apps.

Would this be something like Zapier?

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#192

I'm tackling the issue of managing Reddit saves. Across all platforms (not just Reddit), people including myself like to save/bookmark interesting content in the hopes of getting some use out of it later. The problem arises when you start accumulating too much content and forget to ever check that stuff out. I'm working on a solution to help resurface Redditors' saved things using personalized newsletters. I'm callin…

Playing devils advocate, I'd really prefer this kind of functionality as a separate browser add-on - i.e. unlinked to my reddit signon.

For privacy you needn't require the reddit ID of your users. Simply that they want to save something from reddit to their tryunearth.com account.

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#193
I am working on giving solo entrepreneurs and micro business owners back more of their valuable time by eliminating menial admin tasks. Time is typically your most valuable resource but when you are working alone or on a small team, someone still needs to take care of the admin, eating away at your valuable time.

I’m starting with the sharing of common information with clients and partners. Organizations are often required to supply information on a regular basis to a wide range of clients and partners (bank account details, company, company registration details, tax clearance documents, certifications, charity registration number, etc.). A lot of these documents need to be renewed on an annual basis so there is a constant stream of requests for updated versions.

For bank accounts, the ability to verify a bank account automatically can prevent invoice fraud.

I’m looking at a model where a piece of business information is uploaded to a central platform and then provide permission for others to access it and to receive notifications when a new version is available.

In the first startup school batch for 2020 and working on validating the problem with actual users.

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

#194

Make security authentication in Government and Public services more secure. At the Moment, I'm fighting with a monolithic, untouched Java 8 / JavaEE6 service which has lots of old dependencies and that uses old cryptographic ciphers, some of them classified as unsafe (e.g. brainpool512p1). None knows how to make a reproducible build, since everyone gets a different and working or not-working package and some modules…

this sounds like the opposite of an interesting problem

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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...

Stack not especially necessary. From 2016: http://amosdudley.com/weblog/Ortho

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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 suppose it won't save me, but <3 for working on this. I need work done, but I don't have dental insurance, will have to pay out of pocket, and have yet to overcome the analysis-paralysis problem of finding someone who'll charge a fair price, do good work, and won't add any more holes than I need.

Ha, analysis-paralysis is a good term. (Also need work done)

What work, generally?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes and no. The interactive version appears to be because it displays results as it goes. However for pure command line, it will be fast but not comparable to ripgrep/grep/silver server or others. I want it fast, but absolute performance is not a goal as its a trade off with any ranking algorithm. Not really the same sort of tool. Anyway here is a search over my projects directory which is about 5.7 GB of content htt…

This is super cool! Could see myself using this when I'm feeling foggy-brained and want to bash keys until something useful comes up. But I also just love how it looks; nice interactive TUI apps are always a pleasure to use. Good luck getting it stable!

Thank you. It is rather nice to use. The instant feedback is fantastic for code spelunking in my opinion.

The tui is indeed the sticking point and the thing people like the most. I had planned on sticking an embedded HTML page in there as well but that might be a bit much for a first version.

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I'm tackling the issue of managing Reddit saves. Across all platforms (not just Reddit), people including myself like to save/bookmark interesting content in the hopes of getting some use out of it later. The problem arises when you start accumulating too much content and forget to ever check that stuff out. I'm working on a solution to help resurface Redditors' saved things using personalized newsletters. I'm callin…

Just a heads up: on mobile (Android Q) clicking on 'Get started using Reddit' gives me an 'No apps can perform this action' error from the OS. I have the reddit app installed, so most likely the link tries to open the app (instead of opening the link within the browser) and fails.
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