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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by srunni »

lazyjones wrote: post #30

Idea: a personal blood testing device for use at home (to test for many parameters including vitamin levels). It would be beneficial to be able to test at least monthly in order to avoid risks associated with various deficiencies, to detect possible diseases early, to monitor relevant parameters while on a diet or exercising etc.. Also, we'd like to keep our results confidential to avoid trouble with insurances and o…

What exactly is the advantage of a home device over Theranos, which has a Vitamin D3 test (https://www.theranos.com/test-menu/test/82306)? Data privacy?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by RivieraKid »

mhomde wrote: post #57
RivieraKid wrote: post #34

Like Gravatar but for everything, not just avatars. Gravatar is a service, where you save your avatar. Websites such as StackOverflow can connect to Gravatar and retrieve your avatar from there. So when you decide to change your avatar, you do it in one place. On a more abstract level, the problem here is that people and organizations often create some data and basically Ctrl+C Ctrl+V it to different services. Couple…

Ever heard about Microsoft's Hailstorm and the backlash that followed? :) For the record I think it's a good idea if it can be standardized and federated so you can choose and move between providers

Never heard of it :)

Yes, ideally this would be an open standard and you should be able to run this on your server.

Another thing I didn't mention was that for better privacy: the service should receive some autogenerated alias of databox.org/1, e.g. databox.org/1a4b2f4.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by jorgecastillo »

lichinobu wrote: post #32
NhanH wrote: post #12

Meta: As the last time this was done have showed, every Sunday is probably not sustainable, which lead to progressively worse thread every week. That said, iirc it have been a year since the last popular "Idea Sunday" was on (I started working on a project from that thread!), it seems like a good idea to do it a week or two ... unless someone decide to kill it off early again. On topic: I think there might be a need…

Regarding the SaaS as a service, it might not be precisely what you are thinking of, but im working on a SaaS-in-a-box sideproject that includes a lot of those things. You can find it here, all ideas are welcome! https://github.com/AndersSchmidtHansen/LaravelSidequest

Maybe I am blind, but I don't see a license file anywhere, could you point me to it. The closer thing I found to a license file was this (in composer.json):

"license": "MIT"

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by [deleted] »

srunni wrote: post #61
lazyjones wrote: post #30

Idea: a personal blood testing device for use at home (to test for many parameters including vitamin levels). It would be beneficial to be able to test at least monthly in order to avoid risks associated with various deficiencies, to detect possible diseases early, to monitor relevant parameters while on a diet or exercising etc.. Also, we'd like to keep our results confidential to avoid trouble with insurances and o…

What exactly is the advantage of a home device over Theranos, which has a Vitamin D3 test ( https://www.theranos.com/test-menu/test/82306 )? Data privacy?

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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by thecolorblue »

Idea: Companies setup a basic poll asking people to pick their favorite of 2-5 options. Customers pay $1 (or a little more) to vote.

Companies can use it to understand their actual customers better, people who are actually willing to pay. I was thinking it would be used to prioritized features but it could be used just to raise money. Customers would get a voice with the company, and would not get drowned out by potential customers who are not commited enough to pay a small amount.

I thought of this from the companies perspective so I'm having trouble thinking about it from the customers point of view. Would there be enough incentive for customers to pay?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by grantbachman »

Tutorials that actually validate whether they currently work.

One use case would be tutorials on deploying to IAAS/PAAS providers. Deploying always seems to be the hard part after I build something; I don't like using the same language and IAAS/PAAS twice for learning purposes. It's complicated even more so as many tutorials don't reference when they were written or which code versions they used. The site would require this information, and then use it to periodically attempt to deploy that sample to AWS/Digital Ocean/etc (whichever the tutorial is covering), and prominently display whether the tutorial currently works.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by nanek »

lazyjones wrote: post #30

Idea: a personal blood testing device for use at home (to test for many parameters including vitamin levels). It would be beneficial to be able to test at least monthly in order to avoid risks associated with various deficiencies, to detect possible diseases early, to monitor relevant parameters while on a diet or exercising etc.. Also, we'd like to keep our results confidential to avoid trouble with insurances and o…

closest I've found: https://www.insidetracker.com/public/home_kit/

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by lichinobu »

jorgecastillo wrote: post #63
lichinobu wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Regarding the SaaS as a service, it might not be precisely what you are thinking of, but im working on a SaaS-in-a-box sideproject that includes a lot of those things. You can find it here, all ideas are welcome! https://github.com/AndersSchmidtHansen/LaravelSidequest

Maybe I am blind, but I don't see a license file anywhere, could you point me to it. The closer thing I found to a license file was this (in composer.json): "license": "MIT"

I'll take a look when I get home and add it if I forgot it! It shouldnt be much different than Laravel's own, since its basically just an extension of that. Thanks for pointing it out though Jorge!

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by CodyReichert »

et1337 wrote: post #53

A CMS designed specifically for the solo contractor making a typical brochure-type website for a mom-and-pop organization or company. Every website is a fork of the main repo, so devs have full control and version upgrades are just git merges. Runs on SQLite and comes with in-page editing controls a la Medium. Basically Wordpress for the 21st century, but designed for devs rather than users.

I've thought about this too - what language would you think would be the most universal for devs? I think Wordpress pretty much covers this, though I do think there is room for another competitor.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by CodyReichert »

olalonde wrote: post #47

They don't fit in an HN comment but I recently dumped a couple of ideas on my blog: http://syskall.com/crazy-and-not-so-crazy-startup-ideas-2015...

Your cold calling as a service caught my attention. It's an interesting idea, but I feel the pitfall would be that random callers may not know or be as passionate about my product as an employee or myself. I could see a sale easily being lost because of an unexpected question.
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