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Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
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Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
#2Semi-related... I work in wellness and healthcare.
I don't know about you, but I despise filling out the same forms over and over again when seeing new healthcare providers. I'd love to start a service modeled after granular smartphone permissions where
(a) I check in at a new office (scan a code, they scan my code, beacon, something like that)
(b) the office then requests x, y, and z information
(c) a push is sent to my phone where I can review the information and approve or disapprove some or all permissions
(d) a final step of either entering my pin at the office, using my thumbprint on my device, or something else.
The key components would be storing the data encrypted at rest, following HIPAA and then some, having a solid auth protocol (keys, jwts, etc).
I think adoption would be helped because the public are already used to permissions like these when installing apps.
The benefits are a lack of paper trail, no one is going to not shred my SSN, my most up to date data is now available, and instead of hosting N apps/databases, I'm storing 1 and can reduce my maintenance, customer support issues because one for all, all for one.
Edit: edited for readability.
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#3Not in my industry but I'm part of an HOA and I swear 2/3 of what the people paid to administer it do seems streamlinable/automatable with lots of opportunity for making money along the way. Every time I deal with them I proclaim to myself, STARTUP! Then I forget about it..
Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
#4Not in my industry but I'm part of an HOA and I swear 2/3 of what the people paid to administer it do seems streamlinable/automatable with lots of opportunity for making money along the way. Every time I deal with them I proclaim to myself, STARTUP! Then I forget about it..
What would your HOA pay to automate and how much would it be worth?
Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
#5Semi-related... I work in wellness and healthcare. I don't know about you, but I despise filling out the same forms over and over again when seeing new healthcare providers. I'd love to start a service modeled after granular smartphone permissions where (a) I check in at a new office (scan a code, they scan my code, beacon, something like that) (b) the office then requests x, y, and z information (c) a push is sent t…
The military is terrible for this. You are constantly filling out forms that amount to a half page of your basic information, followed by a couple of text fields that form is actually for.
Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
#6I'm in the AI industry and our problem is that we have so little grasp on what intelligence actually is, that we stumble in getting our machines to mimic portions of human cognition even on the vector space level.
Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
#7Semi-related... I work in wellness and healthcare. I don't know about you, but I despise filling out the same forms over and over again when seeing new healthcare providers. I'd love to start a service modeled after granular smartphone permissions where (a) I check in at a new office (scan a code, they scan my code, beacon, something like that) (b) the office then requests x, y, and z information (c) a push is sent t…
Too much inertia on the provider side for this to catch on and reach critical mass - many septuagenarian sole practitioners out there using paper diaries / files, and larger organisations with some monstrosity written in COBOL (or MUMPS?) that will never change to accommodate this.
I'd suggest something much more low-tech - a website where you can punch in all your details - insurance, allergies, medical history, etc, etc... and then you can print it out (or a subset of it, for different kinds of providers) or generate a PDF that they can copy & paste into their horrible legacy system (an improvement on retyping), or, for those truly at the cutting edge - the kind of electronic transmission you speak of.
Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
#8Semi-related... I work in wellness and healthcare. I don't know about you, but I despise filling out the same forms over and over again when seeing new healthcare providers. I'd love to start a service modeled after granular smartphone permissions where (a) I check in at a new office (scan a code, they scan my code, beacon, something like that) (b) the office then requests x, y, and z information (c) a push is sent t…
The military is terrible for this. You are constantly filling out forms that amount to a half page of your basic information, followed by a couple of text fields that form is actually for.
It might not work for the military specifically, but for browser based forms, Lastpass has a form fill feature:
https://helpdesk.lastpass.com/fill-form-basics/
I'm sure it's possible to hack together an AHK script[1], combined with Pulover's macro creator[2] to automate virtually anything repetitive on a Windows PC, or use Selenium to automate browser actions[3]. Of course then you run the risk of having to fall into the classic XKCD automation time sink[4].
[2] http://www.macrocreator.com/
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#9Not in my industry but I'm part of an HOA and I swear 2/3 of what the people paid to administer it do seems streamlinable/automatable with lots of opportunity for making money along the way. Every time I deal with them I proclaim to myself, STARTUP! Then I forget about it..
There's BuildingLink in this space. I think this is the kind of thing where selling software to existing, backwards organizations is a big marginal, and it might be better to be a property management company with good in-house systems, instead of trying to sell good systems to individual HOAs or small management companies.
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#10As a SaaS provider, one of the key indicators of a customer at risk of churn is the presence of another competitor in their account. A service which notifies you once an account signs up for a competing service would be immensely valuable in helping to target retention activities.