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https://www.quantopian.com/home
That's a great way to give your hard-earned money to large trading firms.
Are you sure you understood the site? You don't give them money or anything.
Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?
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Re: Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?
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> The best startups are ones that have solved a pain point you yourself have experience. Yet there is zero money in writing development tools :(
Have you heard of companies like Atlassian and Gitlab?
Jetbrains, Rational, Perforce, MySQL, GitHub, Trello, StackOverflow, Joyent, Powershell, etc as well.
The tricky part is that to monetize, you either need to master enterprise sales (which means that the product will take on some PHB-pleasing features that developers despise so they can get through procurement departments), or you need to be acquired by a big company looking to round out their developer tools offerings.
Re: Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?
#33I work in the games industry. There are plenty of problems to go around, but I'll pick just one: Discoverability In the "good old days" where 2 people could make a video game, odds are that just shipping something guaranteed you'd make money. But that's no the case anymore now that 1000+ apps come out every day on iOS / Google Play. Of course most of those are crap. But you could be making a great game that caters we…
I would say that discoverability is a problem that games share with pretty much every form of media in the internet age. I've been thinking that one possible solution is to use less technology - organize local meetups and user tests, build a local community. BitBash in Chicago is an example of this, albeit on an annual basis: https://bitbashchicago.com/
Re: Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?
#34I may be reading between the lines too much and I apologize if I am... But every few months (weeks?) I see a post by a founder-type essentially trying to mine the Hacker News collective brains for startup ideas. It doesn't work that way. The best startups are ones that solve a pain point you yourself have experienced. The idea of a savior who comes in and solving the major problems of an industry they have never work…
> The best startups are ones that solve a pain point you yourself have experienced.
Aww, yisss. Case in point, EDA and, in particular, hardware description languages and tools. Every discussion I've had with someone trying to get into this has been so cringe-worthy that I'm actively avoiding now. Every self-professed hardware hacker thinks they have the solution that's going to end all this painful Verilog kerfuffle and yet they're so, so far from getting it.
Like the folks who thing the biggest problem with Verilog and VHDL is that they're so alien that it's hard to get software developers productive with them. Lack of electronics knowledge is what prevents most software developers from being productive in Verilog. A "better" language won't help. Paying attention in their Electronics or Systems classes is going to be ten times more helpful than a Scala/Haskell/whatever-is-fashionable hardware description language.
Or the people who think that development tools are what's holding FPGAs back and that FPGAs would be everywhere, were it not for how hard it is to program them. Trying to explain them that FPGAs are pretty slow gets impossibly difficult as soon as the words "Intel" and "softcore" are mentioned.
Not that there aren't a lot of things to improve in FPGA development tools, or in hardware description languages (which is why you see so much work being done on increasingly higher-level synthesis tools). But unless the number of millions of dollars you're willing to invest is not at least half the number of years you've been studying high-speed IC design, chances are you're as far removed from having a serious answer to all these problems as you are removed from being a modest person.
/rant
Re: Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?
#351. Legal
2. Excessive costs, lack of performance among professionals
3. Change in attitude seems to be the biggest factor. If lawyers stop being about fighting and competing and persuading and more about tackling problems, getting to the truth and finding solutions, we can have a much better chance of succeeding.
There is a lot of opportunity for automation that no one seems to want to get involved in. A good example is document discovery which has been largely automated.
Other areas that could be automated include divorce. For example, in my jurisdiction what each partner is entitled to on divorce in terms of child support and alimony and division of property are set. There is some room to argue about custodial arrangements but not very much.
Given this - there is absolutely no reason to have many years of contentious divorce suits. If there was someone way of just entering the information into a computer and informing both couples of what they are entitled to and then working from there - I believe we would be much better off, because, although I haven't done alot of divorce suits, but in my limited experience it seems to me that lawyers certainly have a large role in exacerbating them and needlessly.
Re: Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?
#36Exploding Complexity. It can take years to become an expert in a tiny little nook of my field. Knowing how to use the software and the theory behind it is very challenging.
Re: Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?
#37There are some resources that might be of interest to you (no affiliation)
Ideas: http://www.oppsdaily.com/
Already done successfully
Re: Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?
#38I may be reading between the lines too much and I apologize if I am... But every few months (weeks?) I see a post by a founder-type essentially trying to mine the Hacker News collective brains for startup ideas. It doesn't work that way. The best startups are ones that solve a pain point you yourself have experienced. The idea of a savior who comes in and solving the major problems of an industry they have never work…
> The best startups are ones that solve a pain point you yourself have experienced. Aww, yisss. Case in point, EDA and, in particular, hardware description languages and tools. Every discussion I've had with someone trying to get into this has been so cringe-worthy that I'm actively avoiding now. Every self-professed hardware hacker thinks they have the solution that's going to end all this painful Verilog kerfuffle…
Lol. Funny you should say that.
My wife was an Electrical Engineering major and when I started dating her I saw the Verilog and actually tried to improve it. Although my approach was more a better IDE and emulator than reinventing the language.
I didn't get far. The domain knowledge of electronics needed was too much for me to deal with and still do my own coursework.
Re: Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?
#39There are some resources that might be of interest to you (no affiliation) Ideas: http://www.oppsdaily.com/ https://nugget.one/ Already done successfully https://sidehustleschool.com/ https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses
Thanks vijayr
FYI it's https://nugget.one/daily - for the free daily startup idea :)
Re: Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?
#401. Banking
2. Product complexity, legacy IT & culture and regulation
3. Provide regulated banking services as a lean platform / utility, let others play on top
(3) is not easy to execute and no, blockchain is not the answer