YC's latest moonshot bet is a startup building a $380K “flying motorcycle”

Post by thinkingemote » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 9:16 AM UTC

easytiger wrote: post #157

thinkingemote wrote: post #151

For me the moonshot problem I'd like to see solved would be trash. Literally! I've been to New York the first class world city where they pile plastic bags full of trash outside the houses and been to leafy suburbs in Europe where they put these bags in boxes and leave them outside too. Meanwhile in developing countries trash causes real pollution and health issues. But in all places it's people create waste and the…

> composting / incineration-generation device to convert the trash into organics and/or electricity. This is extremely widespread and already industrialised.

Post by ondiekijunior » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 9:17 AM UTC

estsauver wrote: post #154

IshKebab wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure I'd call that a moonshot. Difficult and maybe crazy, but modern agriculture clearly already exists and works, unlike driverless cars for example.

I mean... we're trying to end human hunger for a few hundred million people. Thank you for believing in us? No one has ever told me that it sounds more plausible than driverless cars. I'm torn between puffing up my chest and taking the compliment.

Post by rimliu » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 9:24 AM UTC

dmayman wrote: post #64

eevilspock wrote: post #57

With our environment going to hell, we don't need this. So much for the argument that capitalism entrusts wealth in the hands of a few for the benefit of all, or that wealth correlates to merit in any meaningful sense.

How do you do the economics on the value of the lives this can and will save?

Post by tomcam » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 9:29 AM UTC

dmayman wrote: post #45

mlurp wrote: post #3

I know it's really hard to predict what people will or won't want in the future, but... Would people want this, even if it worked really well?

We think they will. IF we can demonstrate it’s safe. Why not use a Speeder to get somewhere in 1/4 the time

Post by tomcam » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 9:32 AM UTC

preyingman wrote: post #91

YC: it's bullshit that you manually pushed this post back to the top of the site after it started dropping down the front page (due to having way more comments than points). It's fine if you're going to treat posts about YC companies as ads that are immune from voting and other site mechanics, but then you need to label them as ads.