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There are hundreds of startup ideas in the Yellow Pages trending section: https://www.yellowpages.com/san-francisco-ca/trends/1
Highlights - Jetskis in SF, Escorts in NY
>Low-Friction Lending Library I think public libraries should start to serve this role. My local library (Calgary) has started to build up a collection of musical instruments that can be borrowed [0]. I'm sure there are other examples out there. I can see libraries expanding into tool libraries (drill, saw, hammer etc). 0 - https://calgarylibrary.ca/borrow-a-musical-instrument/
>>> The Baby Bidet Just wanted to say that I love this space. Smart products targeting ages 0-5. As well as smart business models to reduce waste. And promote recycling of baby products. One example: Owlet smart sock monitor https://owletcare.com/
1. Is the bidet going to hold the baby, suspended in place, with a water shield, so I can direct the water where it needs to clean? Because if not, their is no way I can hold said baby and spray / clean with one hand. As new parents know, the water will need to get in many, many places and needs to be direct-able.
2. As new parents know, the moment the diaper comes off, things go everywhere. So is this bidet going to strip my kids cloths and diaper before spraying? Or would I have to strip and then place the kid? To many logistical issues if the latter....
3. Safety. Temperature. Pressure. Direction. Spillage. DIY Plumping. Etc. To many hurdles.
Not all kids sit still, even when you are changing them. Using a bidet just seems one of those ideas that might appeal to the 1% with a team of nannies, but to us regular folk, I'll stick with a changing mat and wipes, it is just easier....
>>> The Baby Bidet Just wanted to say that I love this space. Smart products targeting ages 0-5. As well as smart business models to reduce waste. And promote recycling of baby products. One example: Owlet smart sock monitor https://owletcare.com/
Baby Bidet is interesting, and anyone who has changed a diaper is probably brainstorming as they read this. I could see it being something at mounts over the top of a toilet and the baby is covered around their waist with something like a kayak skirt. You'd need a foolproof way to do temperature control, either requiring: - a hot water line, usually not far from toilet but requires plumbing which is out for most peop…
The most time consuming part of it all is the clothing unsnapping, re-snapping with winter clothing on.
Finally, the hardest part about the washing is getting the baby dry after to prevent rashes, not getting them clean. A couple flushable, bio-degradable wipes.
The last thing I want as a parent is another gadget that needs maintenance and/or refills.
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This is naive. A bushfire is huge, hot, and fast-moving, consuming entire trees in seconds. Your mains-pressure water sprinkler will not deter an onrushing wall of flame in the least... and worse, an automated system would take water away from where it's needed.
It won't save the house if everything around is afire, but pictures like the burnt-down HP historical archive building[1] look like it could have been saved with a sprinkler wall. (For god's sake, the trees next to it are perfectly OK.) [1] http://www.pressdemocrat.com/business/7559762-181/hewlett-pa... (see picture 3)
No offense to Mr Friedman, but almost everyone that works in marketing and tech has had the adwords for billboards idea, or tv or radio for that matter. I once upon a time played with an adwords for trade magazines idea that went nowhere. This is one of those things where almost every single entrenched player has incentives to keep this from becoming the reality, and outside owning the inventory outright I don't thin…
https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/14/adquick-seed-funding/
We still have a long ways to go, but I think there's a good chance we'll prove you wrong :)
Hey HN! I'm a software developer at YC and the author of this post. This post is actually a bit of an experiment. We're trying to find better ways to get prospective startup founders (which includes many of us in the HN community) in contact with problems that really ought to be solved. We have lots of different ideas for ways to do that, but a list of ideas seemed like an easy one to try out first. Please let me kno…
I have some experience in this space. I run a startup idea repository and newsletter.
In my experience, people really want to be put in touch with their first paying customer. As a rule, the more you can help assess the demand for each idea, the better.
I have some ideas on how YCombinator could do this at scale, and start founders in a more advantageous position, if that's of interest.
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Maybe this could work as a B2G route, like the guys making the firefighting helicopters selling to CalFire. But yeah, this smells like they are trying to find a way to privatize firefighting, which is not cool (pardon the pun)
It seems to me more like they're just trying to build firefighting drones. It's not clear to me that they have any actual insight into how said drones might help, or how firefighting is done at the moment.
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That does sound like an excellent idea. Many many informations about one's health are found in feces, and yet collecting them to give them to a lab is, well, repugnant. If we could somehow have a sensor in the toilet that would scan them every day, that would be invaluable (and probably save lives).
You could probably sell a lot in Germany too. Germans are crazy about analysing their own feces.
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Maybe this could work as a B2G route, like the guys making the firefighting helicopters selling to CalFire. But yeah, this smells like they are trying to find a way to privatize firefighting, which is not cool (pardon the pun)
The problem isn't privatization, it's the payment structure. Crassus should have set up an insurance or subscription based system. I imagine that a firefighting startup would not actually replace the operations of fire departments, they would simply sell products to fire departments. One example of that is Active911: https://www.active911.com/ They sell a product that allows notifications to be pushed through multipl…
Yeah, I think they want a 'greaser' company that will help smooth out governmental workings, FF deployments, and other stuff. Building drones is hardware, and hardware is bad at 'scaling.' Especially, since this kind of hardware is so 'critical' and probably need a lot of testing.