Design refugee-camps. Many of them gonna be needed in 25 years.
Like pop-up city/shelters?
Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups?
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I just tried to set something up on DigitalOcean. It's a small website with some PHP (already written), but I'd like the possibility of expanding it with Node later. So I rented a VPS, but setting everything up is such a pain, with all that SSHing and process management and Linux permissions and everything. Something that allowed me to just throw my site up with the ease of a common shared web host, but also allowed…
Have you tried nearlyfreespeech? http://nearlyfreespeech.net
Yeah, so I've just spent about four hours trying it, and unfortunately it doesn't seem possible. They don't let you set more than one proxy setting for a site, which makes it impossible.
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#963Physical space for lounging, socializing, and working. I live in NYC and there's still a striking lack of space that facilitates people getting out of their apartments and doing "whatever." Starbucks popularized the concept of the "third space" (the first two being housing + workplace) and I think there's so much room to improve upon this.
I'd like to see the likes of Airport lounges that are not in the airport. Especially if it could use my priority pass to access them too.
I use Regus business lounges for this. They have office spaces in most major cities all around the world (at least 15 in San Francisco alone). You pay a reasonable fee per month (around $100, although you can also get free if you look for the right offers) and you basically get access to a lite coworking space, with desks, power outlets, a kitchenette stocked with coffee/tea/snacks, good Wi-Fi, etc. Sometimes people use it for meetings (I've overheard more than a few VC pitches in San Francisco) or just getting things done. I also use it when I'm traveling in a place that doesn't have reliable Wi-Fi or clean water and I need a break to relax and be productive. Western style clean bathrooms in China are good perk as well!
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Mattermost is the one thing listed above that I don't use. What do you see as the differences between team and project chat? I've always seen Gitter as chat with one room per repo; on the other hand, I've also never had a team chat.
Project chat is easier to enter. Anyone can join.
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And a small European country like Ireland doesn't get its own Amazon store so they have to rely on Amazon.co.uk, where everything is priced in Sterling (not Euro). Irish customers can't avail of Amazon Prime, shipping times take longer etc. A federated Amazon.eu with a continent-wide distribution network may help. Goods priced in Euro certainly would.
Yeh it's a joke seeing as they are based here. And so many of us have to use Parcel Motel service to send things to Northern Ireland and have it driven down. Surely Amazon can make a little extra margin by doing that itself.
1. Get a pair of really giant hands
2. Repeat the bit "seeing as they are based here" and make really giant air quotes when you say "based"
3. Profit (without tax)
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What do the majority of web apps need, to compete with native apps? 99% of them definitely DO NOT need to be native.
I'd say the one really important thing web is missing is notifications for when your not on the site. I don't really know how a browser could ever implement in a similar fashion.
This already exists, just not fully on mobile yet, but it's coming.
http://w3c.github.io/push-api/
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/push-notif...
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Thanks, this is exactly what we're doing. The complete scope is detailed on https://about.gitlab.com/direction/#scope By the way, we see Mattermost as an alternative for Slack but not for Gitter. One is team chat and the other is 'project' chat with different requirements.
Mattermost is the one thing listed above that I don't use. What do you see as the differences between team and project chat? I've always seen Gitter as chat with one room per repo; on the other hand, I've also never had a team chat.
We see Gitter as more of a place than a product. It's a community (single network) where anyone can participate in just about anything. It's about connecting developers around the world to one another through the medium of chat.
Sure it can do similar things to Slack/MatterMost, but that's not the intention of what we're trying to do with it.
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#970Replacing real estate agents and brokers. Most of the value they provide can be replaced by (or already is) technology. The only thing keeping them afloat is regulation.
People are trying to do this in the UK with businesses like Purple Bricks.
Given the aggregators exist (in the UK, Zoopla & RightMove are our Zillow) that's where all the eyeballs are and how people find properties. You can then list your own property there.
Before I started Gitter, I nearly went into exactly this space, but there are a few negatives:
1. People are generally bad at sales 2. People are generally bad at negotiating 3. People are generally afraid of complex paperwork
Sure, the system can help with these things and maybe nobody has nailed this yet because there are a few companies trying in this space and nobody seems to be coming out on top.