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Ask HN: What are the problems that are willing to pay more than $1000 to solve?

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Re: Ask HN: What are the problems that are willing to pay more than $1000 to solve?

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Post by krageon »

mbg721 wrote: post #4
Jugurtha wrote: post #3

Diseases, wars, pollution, hunger, crime, mental illnesses, racism, mobility/passports that suck or give you access to practically nothing, terrorism, poverty. The list goes one.

That reads like a laundry list of problems that money alone can't solve. (I guess you left off education.)

Are you really implying money cannot solve poverty, because that's genuinely hilarious but I cannot imagine it to actually be true

Re: Ask HN: What are the problems that are willing to pay more than $1000 to solve?

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Post by ID1452319 »

nefitty wrote: post #18

- Fully-guided health plan: diet, supplements, exercise, preventative measures, etc... SelfDecode gets very close, but I'm thinking of those reports analyzed by an assistant that would schedule and plan medical interventions, meal plan, provide accountability, be an advocate, etc. - A system to build knowledge more effectively than whatever it is that people do now. This would go along with some sort of training to i…

Regarding your "Direct training-to-employment pipeline" I've been thinking about a very similar idea.

Do you think people would actually pay upfront to join on the promise they'll be refunded if they complete the course syllabus successfully?

I have assumed you'd have the offer the course for free and then make your money by placing successful "graduates" with employers who pay a commission for each one.

Re: Ask HN: What are the problems that are willing to pay more than $1000 to solve?

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Post by krageon »

nefitty wrote: post #18

- Fully-guided health plan: diet, supplements, exercise, preventative measures, etc... SelfDecode gets very close, but I'm thinking of those reports analyzed by an assistant that would schedule and plan medical interventions, meal plan, provide accountability, be an advocate, etc. - A system to build knowledge more effectively than whatever it is that people do now. This would go along with some sort of training to i…

> A system to build knowledge more effectively

Assuming you are "people", have you tried roam[1][2][3]?

> health plan

If you do end up figuring something out for this I'd be very interested. SelfDecode's privacy policy gets very close to being acceptable for me, but sadly 23andme-level genomic analysis is either prohibitively expensive (I simply cannot drop thousands on it) or it's actually 23andme and will sell you wholesale. That more than anything makes it unacceptable to me.

[1] https://roamresearch.com/ [2] https://www.orgroam.com/ [3] https://logseq.com/

Re: Ask HN: What are the problems that are willing to pay more than $1000 to solve?

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Post by shrike »

When my phone rings I want to know, with a high degree of confidence, who is calling me.

The only way I can think to do this well is by giving everyone a different phone number, like many of us do with email addresses. Implementing this would require a way to create and vend phone numbers quickly, similar to creating a password with a password manager. There would need to be a way to associate each number with who I gave it to. When my phone rang that identity would need to be surfaced in some way. I would need a way to make outbound calls using these numbers.

I'd happily pay $100+/month for phone numbers (50-100?) plus $x/month for each number above that. If the service was metered by call minute there would need to be a generous number included in the monthly flat rate and excess minutes should be inexpensive.

I imagine the user experience would be similar to what Sidecar/Flyp/Cloud SIM deliver.

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