> 15. Airbnb for Activities See http://www.gidsy.com
also http://guidehop.com
25 Startup Ideas for 2012
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Re: 25 Startup Ideas for 2012
#22It's, er, interesting to see Wonga listed as something to emulate. The only context I've heard of them in before is people wishing fiery death upon them for exploiting the desperate.
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#23I don't know why, but I tried opening this site in 3 different mobile browsers and couldn't get it to scroll.
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#24Good brain dump. This though: Bitcoin - "Let the IRS/FEDs be involved and stick to the law." You need to file under Things that will never happen . The U.S. will not permit a rogue currency .
While they probably won't support a rogue currency, they may or may not support a rouge one.
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#25Why is Stripe for ACH payments necessary? Why isn't that Stripe?
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#26Good brain dump. This though: Bitcoin - "Let the IRS/FEDs be involved and stick to the law." You need to file under Things that will never happen . The U.S. will not permit a rogue currency .
While they probably won't support a rogue currency, they may or may not support a rouge one.
cute...fixed it. What we really need is a spell checker that knows what I mean.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I added some fun ones in there as well...though OpenPCR have made really good headway on the cheap desktop bio hardware front.
OpenPCR is totally different from "read/write cells" much less "read/write cells for under $1000". A truly useful "BioCAD" isn't an engineering problem yet: there's a very substantial amount of basic research required. Synthetic gene circuits evolve rapidly, for one: let's say you designed and "CAD-tested" your circuit, how will you keep it from mutating within a few days? Unsolved research problem. > Build a databas…
Yup.
I have a feeling he just has a bunch of ideas but doesn't know how they'd actually be implemented.
Though, I am using the new IDT geneblocks. I even got a discount on an order, so now ordering 500bp double stranded fragments is actually cheaper than assembling oligos. It's nuts.
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#28>> Build the database of biology
We are running a biological data warehouse, with a clean API in 4 languages. The problem is that the source data are incredibly messy and you have a lot of "blank" values. People then do not know if data are missing or if there really are no data to begin with. Who does the curation?
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#29I don't know why, but I tried opening this site in 3 different mobile browsers and couldn't get it to scroll.
Man, if anything this article proved to me that I should always be absolutely terrified of pressure testing half-baked ideas on HN. And if I have the balls to do so, at least make sure my blog works.
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#30Some other big problems:
Prisons
Retirement for not-so-rich people
Government procurement
Shipping (in developing countries)
Customs (in developing countries)
Utilities prices in Northern countries
Digital democracy (removing corporate influence on elections)