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Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?
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#2Similar-but-different recent threads:
Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26693959 - April 2021 (320 comments)
Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25540583 - Dec 2020 (248 comments)
Re: Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?
#3www.store-dot.com perhaps.
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#5I recently came across Polymarket[1] and am really excited about what crypto has in store for prediction markets and insurance. I've dabbled in prediction markets over the years. I think they have a lot of promise but execution is always an issue. Using ETH to create a two-sided marketplace feels much better than having prediction markets decide what one can bet on.
More broadly, decentralizing insurance in this way would be very cool too... There's little difference, in my mind, between a prediction market predicting weather changes or elections, and insurance contracts around risk.
... and what's even cooler is: can we build bots and models to actually get an edge on these predictions? Imagine applying HFT strategies from stocks to predicting real-world events... Now it sounds like we can actually get good at forecasting difficult-to-predict human events, rather than just stock prices.
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#6Absorbent panels for aircraft and angular design that prevents reflection of emitted waves.
Oh wait, that's under-the-radar technology.
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#7https://paddle.com - it's like Stripe, but their "Reseller of record" means that they handle all sales tax / VAT issues. For most SaaS businesses it seems to reduce headaches a lot.
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#8Narrowband IoT data service. Very low power, low bandwidth, cheap, with increasingly great coverage. It’s like an offshoot of LTE but classified as a 5G technology for massive numbers of low power internet connected devices.
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#9Data Hubs.
It’s queriable like a database but it doesn’t store your data - it proxies all your other databases and data lakes and stuff, and let’s you join between them.
Trino is a great example.
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#10https://paddle.com - it's like Stripe, but their "Reseller of record" means that they handle all sales tax / VAT issues. For most SaaS businesses it seems to reduce headaches a lot.
I’m a customer, and it handles a lot of headaches for accounting. Basically you have 1 client - paddle, as far as the law is concerned. Plus has an easy checkout feature that’s inline for collecting payment info that never touches your server, no headaches securing that info.