Earlier quoted context omitted.
What exactly do you mean when you say testing? Like being able to write unit/integration tests? Or testing whether or not the submitted code fulfils some requirements/assignment?
Yes, unit/integration tests
Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
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#152I used to be a management consultant. We often built financial models of company operations or parts of their value chain, and then looked at the change from process improvement, restructuring or bolting on new business lines. Everything was done in Excel. For the annual strategic planning and budgeting cycle, large companies used expensive proprietary systems to aggregate divisional financial plans.
I now work for a big bank, building out a Jupyter-based data science and machine learning platform. We have hooks in to SDLC with code reviews, commit history, and all the good stuff that software engineers nowadays take for granted.
So what if Finance departments dropped Excel and instead used our dev tools and methodologies? I'm genuinely curious if any companies are doing this, or if any startups are building such solutions.
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#153Will someone please convince the trucking industry that "communicating" by swapping text files over FTP in an absolutely incomprehinsible, proprietary format is simply no way to live? Especially with the recent push by the fed to put electronic logging systems in every truck, this system is absolutely ripe for disruption. Downside is you'll be fighting entrenched companies like IBM for ground.
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#154I'm on the board of my condo building's HOA which has a number of things that would be helpful. * We pay $200/mo for a basic website with forum, some billing things, some file storage and other stuff I never use. It looks like it was written 20 years ago. (If someone can recommend something already out there that would be helpful) * Doorman accepts dozens of package deliveries each day which get sent email and tracke…
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#155ctrl+f "construction" = 0 results. https://angel.co/construction small construction companies are still in the stone age. plangrid and submittal exchange exist but not much else is popular. textura is owned by oracle, and everything else is owned by trimble and autodesk. theres a plethera of attempts at field document management, and timecards, but 0 great medium-large business size erps. procore is like half an erp…
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#156I want to see a good identity and user manager SaaS oriented towards smaller customers. There used to be Stormpath, which was pretty amazing, but they got bought by Okta, which is less friendly to small teams and more enterprise oriented.
Doesn't auth0 fill this role?
But in any case it would be good to have some competition in that space.
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#158I'll take a startup in a box. I want Kubernetes, Elastic, Kibana, FileBeat, Prometheus, Consul, Grafana, databases, HTTP gateways, etc all set up on on the cloud (or set of servers) of my choice and a dashboard that lets me add users (e.g. like a modern Webmin/cPanel+WHM) and make minor config changes if I don't want to run these myself. I want those things HA and I want stable hostnames for them (e.g. Consul DNS on…
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#159I'll take a startup in a box. I want Kubernetes, Elastic, Kibana, FileBeat, Prometheus, Consul, Grafana, databases, HTTP gateways, etc all set up on on the cloud (or set of servers) of my choice and a dashboard that lets me add users (e.g. like a modern Webmin/cPanel+WHM) and make minor config changes if I don't want to run these myself. I want those things HA and I want stable hostnames for them (e.g. Consul DNS on…
Even if someone assembles a product like you ask, how will they monetize it? I'm assuming you want the product to be built with open source components, so then the startup would be selling a glue script to package these open components together. The only feasible way to make money with this would be to sell a proprietary glue script. Not sure how acceptable that would be to you or to potential customer base of this s…
Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
#160I'll take a startup in a box. I want Kubernetes, Elastic, Kibana, FileBeat, Prometheus, Consul, Grafana, databases, HTTP gateways, etc all set up on on the cloud (or set of servers) of my choice and a dashboard that lets me add users (e.g. like a modern Webmin/cPanel+WHM) and make minor config changes if I don't want to run these myself. I want those things HA and I want stable hostnames for them (e.g. Consul DNS on…
Are you starting new companies that frequently?