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Re: Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups?

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Post by 91bananas »

webmaven wrote: post #606
91bananas wrote: post #505

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No, but they may become extremely useful in times of civil unrest if that were to happen.

> [Firearms] may become extremely useful in times of civil unrest Not really: * There is always someone with a bigger gun * There is always someone who wants to steal your gun/ammo * There is always a bigger gang that wants to steal your gun If your solution is to join up with others to make your gang the biggest/best armed and enforcing a monopoly on the use of violence, congratulations, you've either reinvented War…

wut

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Post by Synroc »

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #953

Cities. The way cities are designed, built, operated. I am actually trying to see if I can build a company around this. It's the biggest challenge I can possibly imagine for me, and I don't know why I haven't given up yet :) Cities help people connect (in a physical way), and help companies provide goods and services to them in a more efficient way. However, cities today are maintained, operated, and enlarged based o…

This has been one of my passions too. I recently became a member of Strong Towns, in which we have a slack group to discuss cities.

There are definitely members looking on how it would to start a company based on solving cities' problems.

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Post by babesh »

zump wrote: post #901
babesh wrote: post #160

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You dream, come up with different perspectives, learn, come up with creative ideas, etc... At least that is the case for some people.

How can I be productive while dreaming

https://web.chemdoodle.com/kekules-dream/

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Post by playing_colours »

jandrewrogers wrote: post #68
huevosabio wrote: post #35

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As someone that has "repurposed cartographic tools" to analyze spatiotemporal datasets, what specifically do you feel is missing from current tools?

I spent many years repurposing cartographic tools myself. :-) Three big missing features off the top of my head: - Insufficiently correct and high precision computational geometry, which compounds with the iterative/recursive nature of many complex sensor analytics. Many people don't notice unless they ground truth their analytic process; I learned this the hard way. For many industries, 1% cumulative computational e…

I am late in this conversation, I would like to dig more into the IoT and the needs for tooling for spatial analysis. Could we talk more about the problems you are facing? My email is on the profile page. Thank you!

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Post by unusximmortalis »

jhgjklj wrote: post #942
dcosson wrote: post #136

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> Fixing work culture to support remote work better is likely the key instead of tech and tools. To take it even further, is work culture even broken? It seems to me like there's already quite a lot of remote work (at least in tech) for those who make it a top priority. I wonder if the fact that it isn't the default is because most people would rather not work that way? Aside from the obvious social benefit of face t…

This argument always comes from an non coding managers. I personally think that managers are afraid of their jobs and hence insist to come to office.

:) It is true that many managers are afraid of remote working. Because to make it effective as a manager you have to know how to evaluate the tasks and subtasks and that requires also technical skills. However the modern manager has these skills, remote working is here and it will stay. I believe the ideal teams will have both type of workers.

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Post by kevando »

danieka wrote: post #357
JamesBarney wrote: post #154

A marketplace for specialized micro-consulting(30 minutes to an hour). I've seen plenty of projects that are rife with anti-patterns because a team was unfamiliar with a problem or technology and made a bunch of bad decisions while they were still coming up to speed. The use-case I envision would fix this. Because it's really a travesty that when we're the least familiar with technologies is when we make some of the…

I'm the co-founder of Fliffr. We're building a marketplace for services where you can charge by the minute. We have everything from experts in SEO, chefs, personal trainers, Esport professionals. We also have a couple of developers, for example you can contact me for advice on #go #javascript or #ionic. Our goal is to build a service to quickly get in contact with an expert and only paying for the advice you need. Us…

1 tip to improve your site, include the expertise next to the person.

https://i.imgur.com/KAPuVPv.png

For example, idgaf their name, let alone their username on a service I dont even use yet. This screen that should tell me everything, tells me nothing.

Best of luck. Promising idea.

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Post by buremba »

skynode wrote: post #26

We need to simplify the whole lifecycle of data management. It is still considerably complex. We'll see an accelerated revolution in other areas such as machine learning when this simplification is complete.

Data management is a hard problem because most of the companies have different requirements and culture, that's why many "data-driven" companies try to build their in-house own analytics solution. In order to address this problem, we're working on an open-source data analytics platform that let's you to collect data from anywhere and manage it easily with our cloud. Unlike many other analytics services, it solves ETL, data warehouse and BI problem transparently to you so that you can customize them for your needs. It stores your data in optimized format with a schema and allows you to query your data with both SQL and complex behavioral analytics queries via RESTFul API. Check it out: https://github.com/rakam-io/rakam

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Post by johnnydoe9 »

vatotemking wrote: post #128

Decentralized sharing. Person 1 and 2 turns on wifi on their phones. Person 1 sends a file to person 2. Person 2 receives a notification and accepts. File is now on his phone. This works without cel coverage and without internet. Just the wifi of 2 phones turned on.

This is wi-fi direct though? Superbeam, Shareit, Xender, etc?

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Post by dpatru »

chrishacken wrote: post #435
dpatru wrote: post #419

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I recently found Dr John McDougal on YouTube who has the solution to obesity based on history, current societies, and science. There seem to be two rules: 1) Base your diet around starchy vegetables (potato, wheat, oats, rice, corn, etc). 2) avoid fats, especially refined fats, and protein. 3) salt and sugar are not health foods, but are allowed to help you stick with rules 1 and 2. People, and societies, that eat li…

I would love to see some research on #2. As someone who works out daily; the point at which I was in the best shape of my life was when I was consuming large amounts of fats. Peanut butter, olive oil, etc. I also find it really really hard to believe that protein would cause obesity; I've heard the exact opposite.

https://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2007nl/aug/oils.htm
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