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Business listings are fairly sparse in some countries. Many owners do not bother creating even a google maps profile and just rely on word-of-mouth for new clients. Acquiring the bottom of the data-iceberg will require some creativity going forward.
Alerting people when proposals are put before municipal councils to develop natural land. I found out too late that a huge, beautiful forest where I live is going to be ripped up and turned into investment condos. So in the interest of giving natural land a fighting chance, I'm setting up a system that will notify users when an address they've submitted is being rezoned. The challenge is obviously scaling, since ever…
I'm currently working on ways to disconnect better at the end of the day. So far, I've figured out how to create an "inverse Screen Time" on iOS so it locks me out of most of my phone except for a 3 hour window in the evening that ends one hour before bedtime. I've also began using timers to keep track of how much time each of my daily tasks are eating up. Also the usual stuff. Hitting the gym (30 min a day, 5x a wee…
Whenever we begin to do something, our computer just sees a bunch of apps and windows. It never tells us how to get better or does things on our behalf. At Amna, we’re working on a natural interface structured around the way people think. We believe it will change the way you interact with computers, and the way computers learn from us.
full problem: https://getamna.com/blog/post/amna-solves-problems/
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Agreed, the differences between municipalities makes this really hard to scale. If data providers like the ones you mention don't exist, the two ideas that immediately come to mind are a) becoming that data provider (obviously), or b) building a platform for municipalities to store their land ownership data on. Both sound like interesting problems, and it would be awesome if municipal-level land data was available at…
How do you become that data provider? You need some scalable way to get all that data, right?
I'm trying to get people to sleep better by providing them relevant sleep coaching by combing their sleep tracker’s data with CBT-I derived sleep coaching program. Been working on this project for a year now, and it’s finally starting to take the shape I wanted it to have. Been a really tough journey. I’m was the only coder and designer in the project for the longest time, and my development skills weren’t really tha…
Nice start! Is there any fitness trackers you believe outperform in terms of sleep tracking? It's an interesting idea for an app. because I have personally found specialists are booked 3+ months in advance.
Building a modern headless commerce platform with the focus of developers, and making it fast, and easy to get started. It might not be as impressive as some of the comments, but it does seem like something the market is needing.
Solving the world's trillion-dollar energy storage crisis. (multi-trillion, actually.) https://www.terramenthq.com/ About a year ago, I started spending more time researching about climate change. I learned how important energy storage will be to enable renewable energy to displace fossil fuels. The more I read, the more fascinated I became with the idea of building underground pumped hydro energy storage. I found a…
Here are two recent startups in the field with multi-million funding. They were serious approaches. Many people involved with good planning, etc. They still fizzled out when it came to installing their first capacity.
https://www.power-technology.com/news/newsgaelectric-receive...
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/lightsail-energ...
I believe a reason for the funding problems is the high uncertainty for the economics of storage. Electrical energy is traded in a market. And your trading strategy in the market has a big impact on whether you earn money. Without solid numbers for energy storage and the expected trading outcome, investors will have a hard time.
Creating a directory of all WhatsApp-using businesses in the world. In dog-fooding I must say it's pretty nice booking a dentist without calling and waiting on hold. Business listings are fairly sparse in some countries. Many owners do not bother creating even a google maps profile and just rely on word-of-mouth for new clients. Acquiring the bottom of the data-iceberg will require some creativity going forward.