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The biggest pain I found living in London (that can be solved in a week) is bus lines visualization. I find almost impossible to visualize the route of a bus, much less to combine two routes to get to a point. The official site gives line number information from point to point, but no visualization. I don't know if the London transports has an API with real time information, but it could be cool to have all the buses…
I want to optimize for travel time to work, travel time to grocery, travel time to gym, price.
Everyone is optimizing for travel time by deciding to live in the same country where they work, for example.
Yet the concept of showing properties on the map is flawed as it assumes distances matter, while that's not true.
Maybe just forget the idea of spareroom and create a time-map. You tell it where you are, and it colors you the world by travel-time. That may be feasible in a week.
The biggest pain I found living in London (that can be solved in a week) is bus lines visualization. I find almost impossible to visualize the route of a bus, much less to combine two routes to get to a point. The official site gives line number information from point to point, but no visualization. I don't know if the London transports has an API with real time information, but it could be cool to have all the buses…
It would be cool to be able to click somewhere on that map and then somewhere else and have all the routes in x radius display. (I dislike the tube so this would be amazing!)
Problems in Real Estate listings: Accuracy (many expired listings out there)- a good MVP would be a third party solution to feed inaccurate listing reports back to Rightmove / Zoopla etc, along with information on what part of the listing was inaccurate. Shared Flat - finding the perfect room mate. Kinda like a dating app, only for room shares. As someone else mentioned, Neighbourhoods aggregation of data from Gov we…
gov info london - http://data.london.gov.uk/ and there's glasgow too http://open.glasgow.gov.uk Probably some more if you searcha bout!
The real problem is finding the useful needle in the data haystack, because there is an incredible amount of open data out there.
I've had exactly this on my ideas list for a long time, it's something that interests me.
Here's a simple process to follow: 1) Identify a pain-point you are personally experiencing in some X-industry 2) Search through to the deepest darkest hole of the internet to find an existing solution 3) Identify whether current players are poorly marketing themselves OR if the market is too small (only 500 people need this??) 4) If after analyzing 3), the idea is viable, go for it, else begin from 1) again.
That's a good process! My personal pain-point in this is paying way too much rent for way too little. (However, that's just the supply/demand mechanisms doing its work). But also, the landlord aren't delivering what it promised before I moved in...
The biggest pain I found living in London (that can be solved in a week) is bus lines visualization. I find almost impossible to visualize the route of a bus, much less to combine two routes to get to a point. The official site gives line number information from point to point, but no visualization. I don't know if the London transports has an API with real time information, but it could be cool to have all the buses…