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Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

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Post by starik36 » Sun, Dec 18, 2016, 2:50 AM UTC

confiscate wrote: post #724

starik36 wrote: post #344

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Yes, something similar to AdWords. Which Google previously did do, but then cancelled it. http://betanews.com/2007/04/16/google-s-ad-moves-ruffle-feat... I want my pool cleaning guy to be able to go online and buy a radio commercial advertising his business. If he has to go through a salesperson and negotiate and all that, you've already lost him. I think there is a ton of money sitting on the table waiting to be cla…

Why do you think there is a ton of money for this? Currently buyers go through salespeople--it's not elegant but not it is working. How much more money would an automated system be able to extract, given that some buyers are comfortable with doing it in-person?

Right now the small time business money is not on the table at all. Couple of reasons for that.

One is that it's expensive to buy. One cause of that is that you have to pay sales people. If you remove sales people layer, you would lessen the cost of the ads and allow these people to come to the table.

Second reason is that dealing with sales people is a hassle. Their incentives do not align with those of the buyer. Salespeople do not want to deal with small timers because commission is too small.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

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Post by nsoonhui » Mon, Dec 19, 2016, 12:30 AM UTC

ggcdn wrote: post #698

nsoonhui wrote: post #660

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Since you can already do the analysis (like ETABS), and you are planning to do individual member design, why put the two and two together and do an automated RC analysis+design software? There is no reason to distrust an automated software anymore than separate analysis+design software.

There absolutely is a reason: seismic design. We end up doing a lot of data manipulation between the FEA stage and member design stage. Its not a distrust so much as a fundamental flaw. For simple gravity design it works fine, but even then we are using spColumn because its just quicker for us.

Care to explain why you have to manually do lots of data manipulation between FEA and member design? Why not write a software that can automate these whatever data manipulation? Seems to me that an All-In-One software should have no problem doing analysis, the-whatever-data-manipulation, and the member design.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

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Post by ajo_LODR_IO » Thu, Dec 22, 2016, 5:54 PM UTC

Checkout https://www.lodr.io. We focus on loading files into RedShift. The data processing engine is built on a serverless backend for faster data loads at better prices. You don't have define schema, data types etc. Drop file, transform (optional), and load.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

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Post by kozikow » Fri, Dec 23, 2016, 7:54 AM UTC

ommunist wrote: post #492

kozikow wrote: post #475

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Any more insights about applying drones to 1? I work on deep learning for aierial imagery startup (tensorflight.com). It seems like we could structure some information from drone images. If you are interested in helping us understand the problem and potentially solve it together contact me at kozikow@tensorflight.com

Are you looking to develop applications in forest inventory?

Yes, our current application is focused on Orchards, but we are planning to enter forestry as well.