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Re: Show HN: Veterinarian turned founder, AI lawn diagnosis

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Post by jeanlucas »

SyneRyder wrote: post #50

Off topic question and probably a far too ambitious idea... but as a veterinarian, have you thought about working on improvements to the software that vets use? About six months ago I was spending time with a vet friend, and was hearing stories about terrible user interface and ways the software was getting in the way. The story I most remember was a 60 second timeout requirement to enter patient data before the work…

I am committed to some projects now, but I did a full analysis of projects to invest, used AI to validate ideas and so on.

My main goal was "solo founder projects as programmer" and one of them was software for veterinarians (second one was for golf tracks).

It is an interesting niche!

Re: Show HN: Veterinarian turned founder, AI lawn diagnosis

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Post by joeyguierra »

andrewbr wrote: post #37
joshellington wrote: post #32

I know you probably worked a bunch on the website, but the amount of AI slop and obvious AI design is an immediate turn off for myself. And I’d theorize more “normies” are getting “spidey senses” on these types of generic Claude-designed products. I’m seeing them pop up weekly on my small town subreddit. I’d highly recommend telling Claude something like (untested myself): redesign the website, remove all emojis and…

This is really sound advice, thank you.

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Re: Show HN: Veterinarian turned founder, AI lawn diagnosis

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Post by kuerbel »

Defenestresque wrote: post #49
yboris wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have gone full "pocket forest" / Miyawaki Forest - planted 100 trees in my tiny back yard. Technique developed by the Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki: planting seedlings close together makes them compete for sunlight, thus growing tall quickly. Get a forest in under a decade! https://www.creatingtomorrowsforests.co.uk/blog/the-miyawaki...

Huh! Seems quite obvious in retrospect, but the forced competition for limited resources that encourages growth, while fairly dystopian* if applied to humans, is an interesting idea in terms of forests, as long as you don't believe trees can experience qualia such as grief, a fear of death, unhappiness, etc. [0] I was thinking of this kind of human dystopia: "overpopulation could never be a problem: if people run out…

>Are we the baddies?

As a like minded person wrt the environment I'd like to ask what makes you think that this should be a question (I know the skit)?

Re: Show HN: Veterinarian turned founder, AI lawn diagnosis

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Post by teekert »

supertroop wrote: post #48

Let’s waste more water so we can waste more water. Lawns. Yay. Yawn.

I had the same anti-reaction. Yay, lets all try to tightly control a piece of land and spend an inordinate amount of effort making sure nature will not get a grip on it. Oh piece of land, you shall behave according to my rules! Noise, genetic engineering, pesticides, herbicides: Take that you bad piece of land, Oh my dear 50 m2, you shall remain out of balance and no insect shall ever be happy here! For as long as I live here! Hahaha!

There are many people that do really get happy with a nice lawn, like most of my neighbors. They are even putting up with all of their gasoline leaf blowers that sounds like a motocross is taking place right in our rural street. What is a nice development though is automatic electric lawn mowers, some (some not!) are completely silent and keep that lawn as far from equilibrium as one can with little effort (as in: Some would say it looks "nice", at least it looks "homogeneous".)

So for many people this website is a nice idea! And I do appreciate the effort, for free even! Nice work! If I'd make this I'd add silent and non-toxic methods as the first options. Maybe stimulate some planting some patches of wild flowers for our bug friends that are going through a rough patch atm ;)

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