Ask HN: Idea Sunday • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#101

Post by reitanqild » Sun, Mar 08, 2015, 7:59 PM UTC

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…

Another way to do it: buy a kit for taking your own samples, write down the code on the kit and send it to the lab.

Write the code into a web-page and you get status updates when it is received, when the results arrive etc.

If you want to you might register to get email updates.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#102

Post by reitanqild » Sun, Mar 08, 2015, 8:02 PM UTC

lazyjones wrote: post #80

srunni wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Privacy, no need to mail tests around and wait for days, test price not dictated by 1 entity.

See my reply elsewhere: sell a lab-kit, customers send them in, anonymously if they want, get results by writing the code from the kit into a website.

This is kind-of-anonymous (won't help if the feds are after you)

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#103

Post by joezydeco » Sun, Mar 08, 2015, 8:17 PM UTC

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…

The US FDA frowns heavily on home diagnostic devices when it comes to detecting disease. It's not the technology that is the obstacle.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#104

Post by cageek » Sun, Mar 08, 2015, 8:27 PM UTC

I've created a subreddit for regular idea validation: https://www.reddit.com/r/ideavalidation because we have ideas more than once a month.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#105

Post by joezydeco » Sun, Mar 08, 2015, 8:27 PM UTC

reitanqild wrote: post #102

lazyjones wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Privacy, no need to mail tests around and wait for days, test price not dictated by 1 entity.

See my reply elsewhere: sell a lab-kit, customers send them in, anonymously if they want, get results by writing the code from the kit into a website. This is kind-of-anonymous (won't help if the feds are after you)

Try Analyte Health:

http://www.analytehealth.com

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#106

Post by cageek » Sun, Mar 08, 2015, 8:29 PM UTC

I've had this idea several years ago, and it now exists in a few cities around the world. Feel free to start one in your city, and add it to the wiki: http://www.ideasmeetings.org

It's simply a monthly meetup for idea sharing, validation, and collaboration. Helping each other make our ideas happen, be it an art project, community project, business, or social enterprise.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#107

Post by fiatjaf » Sun, Mar 08, 2015, 8:52 PM UTC

shiggerino wrote: post #100

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…

The W3C sort of had a solution with the semantic web, too bad nobody cared about the semantic web.

Some people care. And anybody implementing something like the suggested idea here should enable both hosted "preferences" and the capability of just being a hub for these same "preferences" hosted in external sites.

Here's a solution that is like Gravatar, but for microformatted data in each people's own websites: http://webvatar.com/

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#108

Post by fiatjaf » Sun, Mar 08, 2015, 8:54 PM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #90

Since no one linked it, here's the reason Idea Sunday was killed in the first place: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693640

Idea Sunday is awesome.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#109

Post by S4M » Sun, Mar 08, 2015, 8:55 PM UTC

A Firefox (or Chrome) plugin to collapse comments on HN.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#110

Post by fiatjaf » Sun, Mar 08, 2015, 9:00 PM UTC

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…

I think there could be a service like this, but that relied on the already standardized types of data and categories such as schema.org.

The service could work like a hub, parsing private addresses people where indie-people would host their own preferences (for example, their own websites) and giving this data to external services; and, for common people, the website would host the data for them, also in a microformatted way (so other hubs and parsers could grab data from it).