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HN: Name a problem, any problem, you'd like to see someone solve
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#22Why is it so hard to choose health insurance? And then, once you're in the system, why is it so hard to keep up with all the paperwork, etc. I grew up in Canada and after living in the States for 10 years, it's been so frustrating to navigate the health care system, and I'm a healthy person. I can't imagine how people who are sick have time and energy to put towards getting better when they are consumed with just "ge…
On this note, as someone who just moved from Canada with a special-needs child, and let me tell you, the US is light-years ahead of Canada. You mentioned you are healthy, so I can only assume your experience is fairly limited. Myself, and mostly my wife, have experienced both of these systems (coming back to the US just last year), and she absolutely loves the American system. Having seen the results myself, I can't describe the Canadian system as anything better than outright child abuse.
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#23An alternative to incarceration or a better experience while incarcerated. Something more humane, less costly or better yet, an alternative to the current prison system that has a net positive effect on society and the economy. Apparently, there's a lot of talent locked up - what a waste: http://www.quora.com/Prisons/What-are-some-aspects-of-incarc...
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#24Fluid/continuous education. For the first two weeks of my junior year of high school, I was learning the same version of the scientific method in 3 classes. I learned it again in two different classes my senior year of high school.
I would like to see education that is based on a knowledge map so that a person never needs to learn something that they already know.
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#25When I'm in the grocery store, looking for an obscure item (cheese cloth is the one that made me think of this). Build me a mobile app to search and get info on where in the store the item is.
Solving a problem is often about finding the right approach / fudging the problem into something you can solve. And there is actually a disruptive solution to this: online shopping. Amazon has cheese cloth.
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#26Solve hatred violence corruption and war.
Hatred leads to violence and war so if you could make a dent in the first, it might pay off in the long run. What about a an app like chatroulette (text only) that paired up people across the world from each other and translated text into their native language? It might be interesting to get to know someone from Iran and see their perspective on things. Corruption - An anonymous whistle blower site would be interesti…
Wikileaks?
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#27Make television and entertainment an on demand system - I don't need Lifetime, but want Longhorn Network and can't get it. I should be able to subscribe to channels one by one. Similarly, why doesn't someone with a track record of making quality entertainment (Mike Schur, Dan Harmon, Tina Fey) bypass networks and middlemen, make a show, sell ads on it, and deliver it through the internet
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#28Finding users. I'm constantly brainstorming ideas, and rapidly prototyping them, but without being able to find the early adopters to begin the feedback loop, the ideas die. What's the best way to find early adopters for my ideas? I'm based in Australia, so meetup groups tend to be very lean around specific interests/technology, but geolocation shouldn't be relevant to internet startups.
http://betabait.com/ sends their newsletter subscribers (early adopters) a daily email with a new beta invite to an internet startup or app. I am a very busy college student but it's the only email I actually skim through every day. I can't speak to the effectiveness completely since I don't have a smartphone and only use the web apps but, it seems to be built around a community of willing participants. Hope that helps.
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#29Free will, longer life span etc... :)
I would like an Android application that delays all notifications by a set amount a time.
So if I want to do an hour of work I could set it to an hour and it wouldn't notify me at all. After the hour is up, all the notifications appear as they normally would.
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#30Search - I'm even going to pay for it. Search for the damn terms I enter into a search field. The "app" may at most have a CSS style sheet, 1993 look. No Javascript, no images. Give me options to limit my search to date ranges, domains, urls, languages, etc.
HTTPS basic auth. No cookies, no tracking, no country detection, no redirect to see what I clicked, no guessing unless I add a flag in the search field.
There was a company once that provided something like this for "free". Then they turned to SHIT.