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Great search engine for an eBook collection. Gives higher ranking to sections i annotated. Must be a desktop app.
Have you tried Calibre?
The best i've found is recoll: https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/
But search quality isn't good.
Yeah, why does clothing still come in S/M/L? Why can't I order existing brands in styles 100% fitted to my unique body. Surely you can instantly measure shoulder/chest/waist width, torso/leg height, etc with technology like Xbox Kinect. And on-demand, custom clothing has to be solvable in 2020, right? So it's just a momentum/supply chain problem, like Netflix vs old guard?
https://www.eshakti.com/ does this for some clothes (not via Kinect, you have to enter the measurements). No personal experience, but it's nice to see folks trying it. It's baffling to me that Amazon doesn't have something like this. Every vendor of clothing seems to upload a size chart or puts it in the text description, and you wind up with stuff like "6x plus size dress" having a waist size of 32 inches.
Yeah, why does clothing still come in S/M/L? Why can't I order existing brands in styles 100% fitted to my unique body. Surely you can instantly measure shoulder/chest/waist width, torso/leg height, etc with technology like Xbox Kinect. And on-demand, custom clothing has to be solvable in 2020, right? So it's just a momentum/supply chain problem, like Netflix vs old guard?
IMO, it's a unit economics problem. Mass producing/selling S/M/L is much more profitable than selling extra wide shoulders/small ribcage to two people.
A web map that is updated in near-real time. I'm working on a launching a startup (notasatellite.com) that uses a network of cameras on 80,000+ commercial flights to build the most accurate map. Had the idea flying home one day and realized the image quality at 30,000ft is just about as good as a satellite at 300 miles. There are thousands of planes flying around interesting places every day, so 100x the revisit rate…
Are you comfortable talking about the existing pipeline on HN? Do the cameras geo-tag the images into a GEOTIFF or similar at the edge? What sort of spatial resolution do you get on the resulting maps? Any chance of multi-spectral imagery in the future? would be amazing for doing remote-sensing projects Sounds like a awesome project.
- A decentralized group of "meatspace" businesses provide notarization. To get an "account" to use the network and its websites, it is mandatory that a person provide government ID. Users can allow a notary to make arbitrary types of information about themselves public (eg: prove they once had cancer,prove they travelled to Cuba, prove they have a high-school diploma, etc). "Private" info is still available to law-enforcement. This makes users more accountable, both for breaking laws, and for (to use the phrase loosely) stolen valour. It might be useful, in addition, if users needed to provide some deposit as collateral in case they abuse notarization.
- The web piece of the network uses a protocol with no page- or site-provided style sheets. A developer can create a style-sheet, but the user chooses styles per-browser (eg: the same style-sheet for all websites they view). This makes for a dull, but usable, web-browsing experience. No font-sizes changing, articles laid out the same everywhere, widgets work the same everywhere.
- The web piece of the network uses a protocol with no page- or site-provided dynamic features (ie: no scripting). Any dynamic features (eg: a login box, or an upload status bar, etc etc etc) need to be standards. The group responsible for this new web protocol can always treat the old web as a playground from which to steal ideas. This makes shady advertising, and many types of hacking, impossible.
Yeah, why does clothing still come in S/M/L? Why can't I order existing brands in styles 100% fitted to my unique body. Surely you can instantly measure shoulder/chest/waist width, torso/leg height, etc with technology like Xbox Kinect. And on-demand, custom clothing has to be solvable in 2020, right? So it's just a momentum/supply chain problem, like Netflix vs old guard?
yes, that already exists.... I used MTaylor, a while ago (download the app, scan your body via the camera), and the shirts came in perfectly fitted to my body. The jeans, not so much (they still need to work on it), but for shirts they were spot on. I will never buy 'off the rack' shirts anymore.
Everyone has different fitting issues. My main one is waist length/width and shoulder width. I'm 6'2" and fit so the waist of most shirts barely go below the top of my jeans and getting the shoulders to fit often means having a parachute around my waist. It looks dumb and clothing fit is extremely important to overall appearance. There's a lot of disruption to be had in this space.
Edit: to be slightly more clear, I'm thinking of technology to replacing the incumbent infrastructure/processes/consumer experience, as opposed to just creating a new specialty brand.
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wasn't there a startup on shark tank that did this, rejected the sharks' offers, then bootstrapped to success?
I think it was MTaylor. My current favorite shirts came from them.
A user interface that combines eye tracking, voice, keyboard, and mouse input. I'm not sure what might work, but as something to explore/test: I look at a button and say "choose", and the button gets clicked. Or maybe I blink twice while looking at the button to click it. Or I say 'switch to Chrome' and it does so immediately, not after 10 seconds for a Siri round trip to Apple.
Radial menus, like Maya. Look at button, menu appears, look in direction to open next menu, new radial menu appears.