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Ask HN: What's your best startup idea that you're not going to pursue?
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#32Starbucks of marijuana.
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#33I posted this before: Popcorn Time for quality children's programming - Bill Nye, Mr. Rogers, Sesame Street, Avatar. Shows that are entertaining AND educational, none of that advertising filled, sassy attitude, Disney Channel crap.
Just move to Australia and watch ABC for Kids. Entertaining, educational shows for kids and no ads: http://www.abc.net.au/children/shows/guide/
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#34A Verilog/VHDL killer.
There's Chisel (Scala based) the LowRisc team from Berkeley are using[1]. It can output Verilog and also compiles to cycle accurate simulators.
There's also PSHDL from Karsten Becker[2] at TUHH. It's immature and seems to be focused on teaching at the moment.
[1] https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/ [2] http://blog.pshdl.org/
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#35A Verilog/VHDL killer.
This would be awesome. God I hate VHDL, I don't have enough time to hate it.
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#36Love this thread idea, had been considering posting one myself. - Tablets for seniors: when the elderly population sees an iPad ad, they're not captivated or entranced; they're intimidated and disappointed that they're left behind by technology. I envision the "jitterbug for tablets" -- built on Android with big, tactile buttons; a 'never get lost, take me home' feature; remotely controlled functionality (IE turn on/…
I don't get it. I thought the main selling point of an iPad is that it's even easier than a Mac. I mean, how much easier could a tablet be?
A lot. My parents and I recently bought my 93 yo Grandfather an iPad, and even though he's smart and has owned a desktop mac for 15 years he still struggles with things like email and photos on the iPad. Senior-oriented features/ui, and maybe family remote control help, would be neat. It's also possible that 93 is just too old for some people to learn new technology.
Tangentially relevant: watching a nontechnical senior citizen use an app I worked on was a humbling experience. Things that seemed obvious to me were disorienting and discouraging, even after patient explanation that could never be offered in production.
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#37A secondary market in sports bets.
See betfair (UK only).
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#38Remote sysadmin service. Percona has a remote DBA service that gives us 24/7 access to a team of proficient DBAs for a fraction of the cost of hiring one. I'd like to see the same product for cloud sysadmins.
Neptune.io are starting to provide this
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#39A couple of years ago I proposed an idea for "AirBnB for self storage" on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Collaborative-Consumption/What-is-the-n... Still seems like a massive opportunity. $24 billion market in the US. Inconvenient locations (for many people). People have (collectively) a massive amount of under-utilized space. Not without its challenges but neither was AirBnB when it started.
In Seattle, Stash (https://angel.co/stash-4) is doing this.
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#40GeekFit - an online community of geeks/coders looking to improve from sedentary to athletic.
I'm curious, there are a lot of online communities for fitness. What do you think could be done to cater to tech folks that isn't currently offered?