I actually don't think I'd start this one personally, but given the recent supreme court ruling, I would expect that a sports betting site/app would likely get traction pretty quickly.
Ask HN: What business would you start in 2018?
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#52Something around video verification. Convincing fake video and audio is coming soon - it isn't a major problem yet, but it will be more challenging to determine if recorded evidence can actually be relied on. Some sort of service that signs and proves the authenticity of videos I think is a an idea that was until recently probably bad, but has now became good. It'd be similar to what digicert does for websites. You c…
I also believe so.
In an age with surveillance everywhere and when video and audio are so important in litigation I would make a tamper-proof camera that would sign every video/audio it produces. Tricky part would be to keep the signing key away from bad hands.
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#53Something around video verification. Convincing fake video and audio is coming soon - it isn't a major problem yet, but it will be more challenging to determine if recorded evidence can actually be relied on. Some sort of service that signs and proves the authenticity of videos I think is a an idea that was until recently probably bad, but has now became good. It'd be similar to what digicert does for websites. You c…
> Some sort of service that signs and proves the authenticity of videos. I don't think that is even possible. You might want to succeed with amateur efforts, but I would guess there will be a point where it is impossible to tell if a video is fake or not.
Just sign it after you verify the original person’s identity so you know if it’s been tampered with.
Company would be responsible for effectively verifying identity - similar to how this is done for websites.
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#54Teacher collaboration tool to open source lesson plans. Create a platform like facebook or github for teachers to collaborate on planning an entire unit. At the moment each teacher does it alone or maybe a department may get together and create some content. But there are thousands of schools tens of thousands of teachers, all of them building lessons and delivering them. Build in testing. assignments. progress. etc.
I've actually thought that something like this could be a fairly useful product. May I ask what your inspiration for such an idea was? Perhaps personal or anecdotal experience? Genuinely curious.
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#55I intend to retire from my current successful company (founded in 2011) and design a range of personal health & wellbeing items for people on the Autism spectrum (more for people with mild-to-moderate ASD, Aspergers, or other similar disability, as opposed to for severe cases - i.e. this isn't a medtech company but a health and wellbeing product line). I stumbled on this by creating a few prototypes at home for my personal use that really contribute to my quality of life as someone with mild ASD traits.
Also, a social enterprise-based reforestation project – I'll be using same savings to buy a piece of deforested ex-farmland (one in particular) and working with friends and local community to return it to its former forested glory. The goal is really to give back but also to learn a heap about land management and permaculture.
For-profit and non-profit, respectively.
So it's really businesses that scratch my own itch.
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#56GDPR consultancy
should have started that 2 years ago
True, but the number of executives and managers that are just starting to ask "what's this GDPR thing I keep hearing about?" tells me that it's about to be a growth industry.
IME, there's also a significant overlap between the execs that insist "2 years isn't enough time to get compliant" and execs that ignored it for the last 2 years. Not sure what that means, but it's at the point where I write off timeline complaints as whining and lack of forethought.
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#57A relational/lang mixed access/excel platform.
Looking for enough funding to work on this (just to cover life expenses US1000/month)
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#58In the US, I will start a company that would partner with Doctors/Clinics/Hospitals where they would agree to transparent pricing for simple and routine services (like wellness checkup, simple procedure etc.). In return, the consumers will purchase a service from us (sort of insurance but I hate that word) for a much lower premium/fee per year (say something like 500 a year) where they pay the routine services out of…
I am working on a platform to keep your health proactive, tied to your current ins coverage. you will get notices re: needed checkups, shots, etc. - as if you had a private physician's assistant. It will est what is covered vs out of pocket, recommended vs strongly recommended, etc., and stats. The dashboard is very user friendly - you can keep it simple or load it up with widgets. Notifications etc.
Can't wait to share here in a 2-4 months.
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#59In the US, I will start a company that would partner with Doctors/Clinics/Hospitals where they would agree to transparent pricing for simple and routine services (like wellness checkup, simple procedure etc.). In return, the consumers will purchase a service from us (sort of insurance but I hate that word) for a much lower premium/fee per year (say something like 500 a year) where they pay the routine services out of…
That’s what “insurance” actually is— protection against unforeseen financial loses. The current idea of “insurance” is more of a health plan than a financial protection scheme. Car insurance doesn’t pay oil changes because that’s a normal part of owning a car and thus should be budgeted for, but a crash isn’t — this insurance exists to make someone whole after a covered loss.
There's a really great writeup on this in "catastrophic care", a book I'd recommend on this topic.
Rather than "insurance", a better model is that "you'll need to spend a lot with p approaching 1, for some years of your life". So allocating each person a lifetime fixed pool of money (through the tax system) might be a good way to force some cost discipline onto the system, while still ensuring coverage and access are widespread.
What I like about this is that it makes explicit, society's commitment to sharing some of the burden of care. I have a close friend whose wife has Crohn's. It's a real bitch of a disease, essentially no known cure, chronic, you just try to get it "managed" as well as possible. We could probably spend an infinite amount of money trying to improve her quality of life, but that's not fair to society at large. So if we said, here, you get $x, that would encourage the medical system to provide cost-effective management options that would be within some bounded price range everyone agrees would be reasonable.
I think there's a real reluctance to put a precise dollar figure on how far we'll go per person toward "universal coverage of everything", but that's precisely the conversation we need to be having.
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#60A betting site offering over/under wagers on the number of people from the Trump administration who are indicted in the coming years.
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