I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea
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Re: I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea
#2I like your idea, but I’m confused why you didn’t try the webmd competitor route.. 50c/user that webmd makes is pretty good really , with good SEO + content marketing you could scale to enough users to make things interesting
Re: I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea
#3This reminds me of an idea I had days ago of using an AI to tell poisonous mushrooms from edible ones apart, from photos.
Then I realized I don't want to be responsible for anyone's death.
Re: I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea
#4I think this was posted already (a couple of years? ago)
Anyway, yeah, it wasn't a good value proposition (and is it just me or GlacierMD is a bad name for this)?
Because in the end, it doesn't matter much if you don't get "the absolutely best choice of drug". If it solves your problem great, if not, doctors can exchange it, but that's when the drug or dosage is bad, not "not great".
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#5it would probably cost what, $20 a month to keep this on line if it has very few users? why not just keep it online and stop updating it?
Re: I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea
#6Original post from January 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21947551
Re: I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea
#7I think this was posted already (a couple of years? ago) Anyway, yeah, it wasn't a good value proposition (and is it just me or GlacierMD is a bad name for this)? Because in the end, it doesn't matter much if you don't get "the absolutely best choice of drug". If it solves your problem great, if not, doctors can exchange it, but that's when the drug or dosage is bad, not "not great".
From Glacier, it's a very short mental route to Titanic. So, yeah I'd say naming your product that brings up thoughts of the Titanic is not great.
Re: I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea
#8I think this was posted already (a couple of years? ago) Anyway, yeah, it wasn't a good value proposition (and is it just me or GlacierMD is a bad name for this)? Because in the end, it doesn't matter much if you don't get "the absolutely best choice of drug". If it solves your problem great, if not, doctors can exchange it, but that's when the drug or dosage is bad, not "not great".
I would definitely look at antidepressants on GlacierMD, because I think I want to take one but the options and side effects are all over the place
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#9That was a fun read. I wish the author mentioned how much he was trying to sell the service for. It could have been $59 a month or $599 a month and with doctors you could potentially expect the same answer.
I'm not a psychologist but some of the author's quoted text came off extremely demeaning in written form. If the author happens to read this, did you really say those things directly to them?
For example, Susan (psychologist) was quoted as saying:
> "Oh sure! I mean, I think in many cases I'll just prescribe what I normally do, since I'm comfortable with it. But you know it's possible that sometimes I'll prescribe something different, based on your metastudies."
To which you replied:
> "And that isn't worth something? Prescribing better treatments?"
Imagine walking into the office of someone who spent the last ~10 years at school and then potentially 20 years practicing their craft as a successful psychologist and then you waltz in and tell them what they prescribe is wrong and your automated treatment plan is better.
Re: I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea
#10Amusingly enough, I've got a document that's essentially a list of ideas where the business model is spurious at best and on that list is a solution almost identical to what was built here.
I appreciate that someone took the dive and then shared the process, pain and failure of seeing it through to its conclusion. The only thing missing is the attempt to raise VC money to scale it to some sort of expert system you can sell to enterprise customers.