Products I Wish Existed

Post by weinzierl » Mon, Jan 06, 2020, 8:22 PM UTC

SamuelAdams wrote: post #102

dsalzman wrote: post #2

+100 "I would love to see the following analysis: A map of repetitious tasks, spreadsheets, and manual data extraction by function in the Fortune 500. Budget breakdown of current software spend, by function, by line, in the Fortune 500. A view of what Accenture, CapGemini, and Deloitte keep building over and over for large enterprises. Undoubtedly a subset of these custom consulting projects can be turned into SaaS s…

>Global 2000 company IT needs. Splunk is a good example of this. I've worked at several public and private muti-billion dollar orgs, and they all rant and rave about how good Splunk is over whatever else they were using. So, build more splunks. Maybe something that aggregates monitoring multiple servers. A plug and play Status Dashboard for a company's internal apps. Like this: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en…

Post by ithkuil » Mon, Jan 06, 2020, 8:25 PM UTC

coldtea wrote: post #209

triceratops wrote: post #181

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Needing to safeguard your possessions lest they get stolen is a sign of a broken society? By that yardstick, every human society past and present is broken. Leaving aside small sleepy towns, everyone locks up their house, car, bicycles, and other possessions, even the people complaining about stolen packages. That's not considered an unreasonable burden, but the minute unattended packages get taken off porches everyo…

> Needing to safeguard your possessions lest they get stolen is a sign of a broken society? Yes. You are just probably too used to it to notice. Decades before it didn't happen as often in places it does now (yes, it did happen in other places. No excuse for a neighbourhood to go bad though, e.g. through tons of meth/opioid addicted piling to the crime rate). In nicer neighbourhoods it doesn't happen still. In whole…

Post by asdff » Mon, Jan 06, 2020, 8:27 PM UTC

JohnFen wrote: post #177

Scoundreller wrote: post #76

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Heh, a road to my parents’ used to be riddled with potholes and uneven sewer grates (Canadian winters + drainage issues probably). The city spent months ripping it up and paving it nice and smooth. Then a couple months later they put up speed bumps. We spent a lot of money to get back to the speeds people already drove.

I once lived on a street that was incredibly badly maintained. The city informed the residents that they would be repaving the street and the residents campaigned hard for the city not to do that, for precisely the reasons you're talking about here. Their campaign was successful, in no small measure because a poll of the residents showed 95% of them opposed the repaving, and that the local paper wrote a big story abo…

Post by asdff » Mon, Jan 06, 2020, 8:34 PM UTC

dunkelan wrote: post #6

hprotagonist wrote: post #3

Products I'm glad do NOT exist: 4. ADT 2.0: Digital neighborhood watch. Ring is gross enough, thank you very much.

I think the key term is "consumer-centric". Ring and other home cams are necessary peace of mind for a lot of people.

Post by asdff » Mon, Jan 06, 2020, 8:35 PM UTC

modeless wrote: post #108

nrjames wrote: post #68

Purple Air hits on a bit of the neighborhood pollution sensor idea: https://www2.purpleair.com/ I've used their API to look at California wildfire data.

Their API is great. I found their site a little slow for something I want to check regularly so I built a faster one based on the API: https://aqi.today If there's a PurpleAir sensor near you, it will show you the reading instantly. It also updates the favicon so you can leave it open in the background and check the reading just by glancing at the tab.