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I know that hacker news is a place for serious discussion and memes are not appropriate, but there really isn’t a sentiment more fitting than: Shut up, and take my money
I will come for your money, but I might want your brains first :)
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Start with the routers. Build a better home router. Sort of like Ubiquiti kind of is doing. Build one that does - local caching and P2P sharing of media / photos etc this gives ISPs a genuine incentive to use it - if routers can build a mesh network (or at least not push back to ISP core) for 20/30 % traffic will that be savings? - Router acts as first responder to bot nets / malware from within the house Another goo…
What I've been told is that ISPs could easily stop most ddos attacks now, but simply don't give even the tiniest crap about it. Also, they tend not to like p2p, so I don't think you can sell this to ISPs.
Some ideas: 1. Social Silo-busters: Couple the evils of the garden walled social network approach with posts on how hard is it to make friends later in life, add a pinch of all that useless time spent in the car commuting (scraping the bottom of Spotify or Audible) and you arrive at: ad hoc voice-based social networks based on proximity, e.g. through limited range (100m) FM transmitters (one cheap way would be to use…
Screens to order at restaurants is one of the shittiest ideas ever. Got handed an iPad with a menu on it recently at a restaurant in LA. Took me about 5x longer to get an overview of what they have than a normal paper menu. Sometimes, paper > screen.
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What I've been told is that ISPs could easily stop most ddos attacks now, but simply don't give even the tiniest crap about it. Also, they tend not to like p2p, so I don't think you can sell this to ISPs.
Absolutely, why should they bother? They make more money by routing more traffic - no matter if that's an YouTube video or a botnet request.
Its why cacheing is all ISPs really care about. Its why Akamai makes ISPs happy by adding a edge router in their network. Presumably netflix too.
I'm surprised there is no mention of healthcare...
definitely lot of opportunities there, but a big factor is regulation. Most people who haven't been exposed to the healthcare market are understandably cautious about funding a start-up in a highly regulated field.
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This is a pretty sick burn, and you may be being generous. Nothing in this list is a new idea. People have been trying and failing at open app stores for years. Same with touch OS. If "What does the internet-native version of the WSJ or The Economist look like?" constitutes a sleeper market, he may need to get out more.
Solving boring problems that no one else wants to solve because they are too boring is where the market is. I'm actually disappointed that it is "new kind of ISP" that made the list rather than just plain "ISP/NSP -- whatever way IP is delivered is fine". Making $10/mo profit in being a dumb pipe with 10 million subscribers in the US is a profit of $100 million in a month while being a a dumb pipe .
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/434bwz/how_much...
Waste management is a huge issue in the developing world. During my world trip, I observed that even a remote fisherman island in the middle of nowhere has a lot of plastic thrash dumped into the nature. It might be hard to believe for you, but here are some observations I had: * Most people don't even know difference between plastic and compost thrash. * Most governments in developing world are dysfunctional. They c…
The most amazing thing to me when I got a kitchen garbage disposal was that once you take the organics out, almost all my trash is just plastic in one form another, and paper.
I just want to second Andrew's list. I'm a developer with probably 1/100 as much money as he has, but this is the first list I've seen in a long time that mentions specific low-hanging fruit that has the potential to actually improve lives (vs the mostly vacuous or profit-oriented areas I've seen in other lists). I look at problems in the world as a series of solutions built from first principles. So if you want a di…
> thousands of times faster than what we have now
The last link is always the slowest. Moreover, much of the most interesting internet stuff really is global communications and dynamic websites, rather than easily replicated static content.
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Are you guys reading the same list as me? How would you categorize the following as a "rich white guy problem"? "Air conditioning – As more people in hot climates enter the middle class, and as climate change accelerates, the demand for air conditioning will explode. What innovation is possible here?"
To be devil's advocate: The worst possible outcome of using more air conditioning is more pollution. Pollution (on a global scale) and the associated potential climate change are considered pretty first-world (rich white dude) problems. Pollution on a local scale is definitely more legitimate, but that's overwhelmingly due to combustion engines (cars) and not power generation, which doesn't typically happen in city c…
Just one example source, this is pretty much consensus: http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2014/03/03/climate-...
Some ideas: 1. Social Silo-busters: Couple the evils of the garden walled social network approach with posts on how hard is it to make friends later in life, add a pinch of all that useless time spent in the car commuting (scraping the bottom of Spotify or Audible) and you arrive at: ad hoc voice-based social networks based on proximity, e.g. through limited range (100m) FM transmitters (one cheap way would be to use…
Congratulations on reinventing the CB radio.
> "Why can’t I manage waste pickup from an app? What might a re-invented garbage truck look like?"
Taiwan does this the other way round: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/09/taiwan-garbage-tru...
In this case, it's a municipal service that people don't fundamentally want to pay for and it's hard to make "premium". So you'd have to sell to municipalities on cost.
> The buzzer for restaurants, why can't it have a screen to display menu, or let your preorder?
The JD Wetherspoon "order at table" app basically lets you do this.