Startup Ideas

Post by jogjayr » Thu, Nov 16, 2017, 9:07 PM UTC

ukulele wrote: post #81

> AI for communicating with dogs This is borderline satire. You don't need some crazy new idea to do a startup. You need to execute well on something people want, and if you're out looking for ideas, your best bet is probably to enter an existing market and cater to a subset of it better than others are doing.

Post by callmeed » Thu, Nov 16, 2017, 9:10 PM UTC

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #146

mark242 wrote: post #34

> Social Network for Children Counterpoint-- this should not be built. Kids already have a social network, it's called the playground at school. Having children engage with their friends outside of school time is a fine goal, but there are plenty of existing after-school activities that encourage this interaction. These activities also don't put the undue stress of having to decipher typed language, nuance, and other…

It's ironic: Most of you desperately want to unseat Facebook, and this is a strategy toward that end. What do you think will happen when those children grow into teens? If Facebook seems draconian, this would be an opportunity to build something better from first principles. It's a positive plan, not malicious. I'm not sure Facebook has the ability to pursue this even if they tried. They have too much political inert…

Post by icebraining » Thu, Nov 16, 2017, 9:12 PM UTC

Balgair wrote: post #140

civilian wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Crassus seems like he did just fine as it was. He was the richest man in Roman history (excepting Augustus) :) Then again, he was instrumental in turning the Republic into Empire, so he's a bit of a mixed bag. 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 thi…

Post by jotux » Thu, Nov 16, 2017, 9:13 PM UTC

blizkreeg wrote: post #75

I've thought about the firefighting idea as well, especially after the recent Sonoma and Napa fire. Sprinkler systems for indoor fires are not that uncommon now. Why aren't there sprinkler/fire retardant systems for the perimeter/external part of a house? In a wildfire, I can't imagine a better way to fight the fire from spreading through a neighborhood than a system that auto-deploys when it senses smoke on the peri…

Post by blizkreeg » Thu, Nov 16, 2017, 9:21 PM UTC

jotux wrote: post #177

blizkreeg wrote: post #75

I've thought about the firefighting idea as well, especially after the recent Sonoma and Napa fire. Sprinkler systems for indoor fires are not that uncommon now. Why aren't there sprinkler/fire retardant systems for the perimeter/external part of a house? In a wildfire, I can't imagine a better way to fight the fire from spreading through a neighborhood than a system that auto-deploys when it senses smoke on the peri…

I've thought about this as well. My idea was to bury a 10k gallon tank in the yard along with a compressed air tank. Run sprinklers around the perimeter of your house and drip lines across the eves of your roof. When a fire is near you turn a valve that pressurizes the tank and pushes water out to the sprinklers for ~8 hours.