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Ask HN: If you had 5 years of uninterrupted time, what would you build and why?

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Re: Ask HN: If you had 5 years of uninterrupted time, what would you build and why?

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1 year to talk to people in real businesses that aren't in tech and study their problem in depth. 4 years to create what they need. Too vague? I don't know enough about enough things outside of tech to really build something that would actually help the rest of the world. (The only thing I can think of is another Skype-like company akin to Twillio but for video communication with a phone. That probably would fail unt…

thats a waterfall model, may be agile might be more useful :)

Re: Ask HN: If you had 5 years of uninterrupted time, what would you build and why?

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The problem is that you can spend years or decades working on something that the market deems irrelevant. Case in point: GNU Hurd.

Isn't the problem with Hurd the fact that they did spend years working on it, instead of just releasing something early and iterating?

Re: Ask HN: If you had 5 years of uninterrupted time, what would you build and why?

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I think I would devote those 5 years to writing a new browser. My goal would be to have a browser that is 100% standards compliant. My browser would run, and display web pages, equally on Windows XP+, OS X 10.5+, as well as all the major flavors of Linux.

Re: Ask HN: If you had 5 years of uninterrupted time, what would you build and why?

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Food (all aspects):

- use warehouses to build automated aquaponics food farms managed like servers (the info available on this stuff is not exactly scientific)

- fast food that is _real_ food (and potentially grown in an abandoned warehouse close-by).

Re: Ask HN: If you had 5 years of uninterrupted time, what would you build and why?

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post #11
post #2

1 year to talk to people in real businesses that aren't in tech and study their problem in depth. 4 years to create what they need. Too vague? I don't know enough about enough things outside of tech to really build something that would actually help the rest of the world. (The only thing I can think of is another Skype-like company akin to Twillio but for video communication with a phone. That probably would fail unt…

thats a waterfall model, may be agile might be more useful :)

An interesting response, perhaps you're being downvoted for an English mistake?
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