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Re: Ask HN: Do you have startup ideas to share?

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Post by wilbertliu »

namenotrequired wrote: post #15
wilbertliu wrote: post #4

Recently i thought about making to-do list that don't suck :) Interested to know more about it?

What sucks about to-do lists?

Actually it's related to my laziness (and hopefully others had that too) to write to-do list because of these two things :

1. It will become a long list (when reaching 10 or more items) and it made me psychologically "lazy" to write more or mark some item as "done". 2. I just realised that it's best to focus on one thing and make it done as soon as possible rather than seeing a long to-do list.

Any thoughts? :)

Re: Ask HN: Do you have startup ideas to share?

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Post by sharemywin »

Couple ideas: time sharing marketplace/factory/warehouse. 3d printer, other maker tools, cnc, robots to move stuff around but virtual. delivering take'n'bake pizza.(costs are pretty low for a large delivery area). doorhangermarketplace.com - taskrabbit but focused on doorhangers.

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Post by Mankhool »

I read about this yesterday http://www.google.com/atap/projecttango/

Last September I posted this on my blog: Imagine sitting in an airport, for example, and being able to join a First Person Shooter Game where all of your opponents are in the same airport – they could be other travellers, airport staff, pilots – anyone. But here is the main feature of this game: The virtual location you see in the game IS the airport and it is created using all relevant data (floorplans of the airport, wayfinding apps, and apps on your phone that are able to map rooms, measure direction, etc.). The game environment in which you travel seeking your opponents is generated using data being generated by their devices as well – sort of a micro crowd sourced battlefield with some help from publicly available data.

Where do I find a Tango Developer to work with to create this Massively Multiplayer Mobile game?

Re: Ask HN: Do you have startup ideas to share?

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Post by kordless »

akg_67 wrote: post #14
kordless wrote: post #10

I'm working on a highly distributed cloud framework that implements a Bitcoin operated OpenStack deployment. Basically, you install OpenStack at your house or small data center, launch a small instance with some Open Source code that turns the instance into a virtual appliance controller, and then join a pool of other providers/users. The pool operator provides search functions (like geo) and Bitcoin addresses so oth…

Like your concept. I am very interested in OpenStack myself, more look at it as a building block for private cloud. Sounds like you are trying to create a NOVA pool for virtual instanced from excess available CPU/memory capacity of the participant users. Not sure you really need to have OpenStack to achieve this. What will happen to all the virtual instances running on a NOVA node if a participant user turns off thei…

Here's the whitepaper: https://github.com/StackMonkey/xovio-pool/blob/master/whitep....

Each provider (a user) installs their own OpenStack cluster, which includes a nova controller. That cluster runs a virtual appliance who's job is to watch a given Bitcoin address for payments. If it sees a payment it either starts an instance or resets a counter to keep an instance running. Payments by users are taken by the pool operator. The pool then starts micro drips to the instance, in most cases half a cent or so.

The pool I'm going to run will be at stackmonkey.com. If a provider shuts off their controller, something crashes, or there's a rig failure, only a small percentage of the total number of instances will be affected. Payments won't matter because the instance costs are so low, and the drip can be turned off when the appliance stops responding to the pool controller.

OpenStack makes this handy because it handles all the heavy lifting for starting and stoping instances, doing network setup, images, instance sizes, etc.

Initial audience for this low trust pool will be hackers, developers, testers, tor nodes, individuals, etc. Very low cost, highly ephemeral instances.

There's a video here: https://vimeo.com/86717476

Re: Ask HN: Do you have startup ideas to share?

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Post by Mz »

akg_67 wrote: post #12

A few months ago, I had a BRAVO study done for acid reflux issue. Basically, a capsule with wireless transmitter is attached to esophagus wall. You carry around a bulky wireless receiver with antenna sticking out that records pH readings for 48 hours. You also record when you are lying down, eating and encounter acid reflux episodes on a piece of paper. After 48 hours, you need to take receiver and paper with recorde…

Can you explain to me what the benefit of this study is supposed to be? (I think finding a way to eliminate the study would make more sense.)

Re: Ask HN: Do you have startup ideas to share?

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Post by akg_67 »

Mz wrote: post #26
akg_67 wrote: post #12

A few months ago, I had a BRAVO study done for acid reflux issue. Basically, a capsule with wireless transmitter is attached to esophagus wall. You carry around a bulky wireless receiver with antenna sticking out that records pH readings for 48 hours. You also record when you are lying down, eating and encounter acid reflux episodes on a piece of paper. After 48 hours, you need to take receiver and paper with recorde…

Can you explain to me what the benefit of this study is supposed to be? (I think finding a way to eliminate the study would make more sense.)

The study measures the pH over 48 hour period near the entrance of stomach. This helps determine the frequency and strength of acid reflux into esophagus from stomach to assess the severity of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Typically, capsule is placed in esophagus during the endoscopy.

Based on my readings before the procedure, in my opinion, BRAVO capsule technique is currently the most advanced, accurate,and convenient method compared to previously used methods such as stents/catheter.

More info http://my.clevelandclinic.org/services/esophageal_ph_test/hi...

I am not sure what do you mean by eliminating the study. How else are you going to measure the pH to detect acid reflux in esophagus.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have startup ideas to share?

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Post by akg_67 »

kordless wrote: post #25
akg_67 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like your concept. I am very interested in OpenStack myself, more look at it as a building block for private cloud. Sounds like you are trying to create a NOVA pool for virtual instanced from excess available CPU/memory capacity of the participant users. Not sure you really need to have OpenStack to achieve this. What will happen to all the virtual instances running on a NOVA node if a participant user turns off thei…

Here's the whitepaper: https://github.com/StackMonkey/xovio-pool/blob/master/whitep... . Each provider (a user) installs their own OpenStack cluster, which includes a nova controller. That cluster runs a virtual appliance who's job is to watch a given Bitcoin address for payments. If it sees a payment it either starts an instance or resets a counter to keep an instance running. Payments by users are taken by the pool…

Thanks for the whitepaper and video. So, at high level the resource provider is accepting Bitcoin instead of dollars to provide a virtual instance to a customer. Does this sums up what you are trying to do?

I have hard time imagining who might be the customer that will be willing to run their virtual instance on low trust ephemeral pool and for what purpose. What are some use cases for your solution? Is there such a low trust ephemeral pool already in existence that accepts dollars? Why would someone use this solution over just launching a VPS or EC2 instance?

Re: Ask HN: Do you have startup ideas to share?

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Post by meowface »

wilbertliu wrote: post #4

Recently i thought about making to-do list that don't suck :) Interested to know more about it?

While a noble pursuit, I think there are dozens of start-ups (completely free/open apps as well as for-profit businesses) trying to do exactly this. I think Trello counts as a big one.
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