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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by clamprecht »

thiagoperes wrote: post #279
avalaunch wrote: post #174

A major pain point in my life is house maintenance and repair. I really miss having a (good) landlord. That's what I want - a single point of contact to manage the upkeep of and fix any issues related to my home. There's so much friction in the process of finding the various contractors needed to keep a home in good order. First you have to search on craigslist, angieslist, or google for contractors that service your…

In Brazil this is offered by insurance companies (it's called home insurance) for a long time. Besides covering stuff like fires, earthquakes, hurricanes, theft, etc. they give you free home services like the ones you mentioned (hanging pictures, changing lightbulbs) and offer "emergency" services like locksmith, electrician and glazier. It's way cheaper than your 500-1k range. Here's one of the companies that do thi…

This sounded good until you said "insurance companies". If insurance companies in the US had the opportunity, they're likely to do what they did to health care.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by ryanSrich »

maxcan wrote: post #224
egypturnash wrote: post #190

Basically Yelp for transgender surgeons. I've been working on making the decision as to who I'll get to sculpt new genitals for me, and researching this on the web is a mess - every site comparing them is out of date, triggers my mental sketchy spam site detectors, or both. It'd be great to be able to go to a nice-looking site and say "all I'm interested in right now is MtF genital surgery", then see doctors who do t…

I feel like this is a symptom of a far larger problem, the need for yelp for medical care in general. Its kind of shitty that there is absolutely no way to quality and price compare medical providers. Also, good luck with the transition, I have a friend going through something similar, its definitely not an easy thing.

ZocDoc?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by rhizome »

personlurking wrote: post #19

Just going to throw this one out there. I live in Lisbon, it's tourist-central (I'm from SF and I've never seen so many tourists). Since I see a ton of lost people every single day there should be a way to digitally leave comments on things and places and a free one-stop shop to find such info (like Wikitravel). This info, although having a central repository, should be pushed out to an app that connects to one's pho…

For geofenced commenting, how would you deal with the "BILLY IS A FAG" problem?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by rhizome »

personlurking wrote: post #19

Just going to throw this one out there. I live in Lisbon, it's tourist-central (I'm from SF and I've never seen so many tourists). Since I see a ton of lost people every single day there should be a way to digitally leave comments on things and places and a free one-stop shop to find such info (like Wikitravel). This info, although having a central repository, should be pushed out to an app that connects to one's pho…

For geofenced commenting, how would you deal with the "BILLY IS A FAG" problem?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by rhizome »

personlurking wrote: post #19

Just going to throw this one out there. I live in Lisbon, it's tourist-central (I'm from SF and I've never seen so many tourists). Since I see a ton of lost people every single day there should be a way to digitally leave comments on things and places and a free one-stop shop to find such info (like Wikitravel). This info, although having a central repository, should be pushed out to an app that connects to one's pho…

For geofenced commenting, how would you deal with the "BILLY IS A FAG" problem?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by DanBC »

binarymax wrote: post #320

Food Golf. (Code golf - for recipes). A community where members submit recipes. Score is a function of ingredient count and cooking time. The lower the better. Recipes are also rated for taste/quality by the community.

I am reminded of the bits of Reamde that talk about recombinant cooking - people take two existing prepared food items and mix them to get something else. EG: a can of mushroom soup, a can of tuna and a pack of ramen noodles. (Sounds revolting).

But I like the idea. Perhaps a twist could be to prepare a weeks worth of meals using the least ingredients - people are allowed a small set of regular items for the pantry (plain flour, milk, granulated sugar, salt) but have to use or reuse a limited set of ingredients to create a tasty nurritious menu for a week on a tight budget.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by rhizome »

personlurking wrote: post #19

Just going to throw this one out there. I live in Lisbon, it's tourist-central (I'm from SF and I've never seen so many tourists). Since I see a ton of lost people every single day there should be a way to digitally leave comments on things and places and a free one-stop shop to find such info (like Wikitravel). This info, although having a central repository, should be pushed out to an app that connects to one's pho…

For geofenced commenting, how would you deal with the "BILLY IS A FAG" problem?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by jreed91 »

I just thought of this so I haven't exactly vetted it out yet or checked if anyone else is doing this.

A major pain I've noticed is event planning. If you are doing it solo you must call a ton of different individuals. You have to call for a place for the event, a caterer or someone to supply food, decorations, and finally invite all the people you want to come.

My idea is kind of a cross between airbnb and eventbrite. We create a service that works with only local locations and food vendors. This service allows them to post times they are available and food availability in a central location. Individuals who are planning an event can come to this web site and select what they want and where they want there event.

This service acts as the middleman easing the pain of event planning in a one stop web site and also benefits the local small businesses by connecting them with people looking for vendors for an event.

Let me know if anyone sees any problems with this or ways it could be improved.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by wdr1 »

ryandrake wrote: post #313
avalaunch wrote: post #174

A major pain point in my life is house maintenance and repair. I really miss having a (good) landlord. That's what I want - a single point of contact to manage the upkeep of and fix any issues related to my home. There's so much friction in the process of finding the various contractors needed to keep a home in good order. First you have to search on craigslist, angieslist, or google for contractors that service your…

It's neat, but I'd be worried about market size. This is a problem that not a lot of people have. Sorry, but for most people, it's not a big deal to call a plumber, and the vast, vast majority of people (at least in the US) clean their own homes. EDITing my comment to be more constructive: There could be money in a cloud- or app-based Personal Assistant, but you would really have to focus razor sharp on your target m…

> It's neat, but I'd be worried about market size. This is a problem that not a lot of people have. Sorry, but for most people, it's not a big deal to call a plumber, and the vast, vast majority of people (at least in the US) clean their own homes.

I think it would do pretty well throughout West LA. It's not a big deal to call a plumber, but it is a big deal to find a good plumber that you can trust.

Likewise, it's a non-trivial task to simply be aware of the maintenance that should be done around the house, let alone finding time to do it (or, again, finding someone you trust).

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by meigwilym »

hershel wrote: post #296

1. Combining the mio water flavoring , which gets very good reviews in his category ,into a cap of a reusable water bottle ,similar to pillid[2] 2. Pcb layout design, in the electronics industry, is somewhat similar to games like pipes. So why not gamify pcb layout[3] ? 3. Recently i read some interesting research about some electronic circuit. It would have been very useful to get access to a full diagram/layout and…

UK drinks manufacturer Robinson's have just released Squash'd[1], similar to your first idea

[1]http://www.robinsonssquashd.co.uk/

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