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Re: Products I Wish Existed

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Post by busymom0 » Mon, Jan 06, 2020, 9:27 PM UTC

ckosidows wrote: post #248

#2. I've had an idea I've mulled around for a couple of years now about a new social network. One which limits your 'feed' to 25 friends and that is it. 25 might even be too high (or potentially too low; the number is arbitrary), but the general idea is that in your life there are only a handful of people who you should really care to keep tabs on. You can "friend" more than 25 people but you can only see the activit…

Can’t that be achieved by simply Facebook offering an option for feeds of manually created group by you? Like you create a group called closefriends where you add your close friends and family upto 25 members. Then a feed for those people only shows up?

Almost similar to where each user is a subreddit and you create a multireddit.

Re: Products I Wish Existed

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Post by nojvek » Mon, Jan 06, 2020, 9:28 PM UTC

henryfjordan wrote: post #251

davedx wrote: post #32

> NoCode/LowCode (letting anyone build an app with a spreadsheet as a database representation) AirTable has made huge inroads here. I'm also building something in this area ( https://lightsheets.app/ ), turning slightly back towards spreadsheets instead of databases but then building enhancements and modern integrations on top. I think there's still lots of potential in this area, despite spreadsheets being 50 years…

Airtable did some great work on the UX. Introducing people to table schemas with typed columns is pretty awesome, and the creative way they've leveraged that with the little tab that comes out of the side for either a nice view over the data (e.g. a map for an address column) or for showing Pivot Tables/Aggregations. They deserve some design awards for those ideas. But it's not a great alternative to a DB. It's reall…

Awesome. Thanks for Validating. I'm going to spend the next year of my life building exactly that. Right now I've just put it a manifesto with some ideas at http://orows.com, but will be coming out with a proof of concept very soon.

Re: Products I Wish Existed

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Post by oh_sigh » Mon, Jan 06, 2020, 9:28 PM UTC

wDcBKgt66V8WDs wrote: post #204

oh_sigh wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do security cameras remove the "vibrancy of your young urban block" or "the sense of trust and community in your suburb"? Do the locks on your door accomplish the same incredible feat?

There are gentrifying city streets that I, a white male, will not walk down because the entire street is new construction with builder included Ring systems. I don't want to walk down a street and have literally 30 people get notifications on their phones that I'm there. I can't imagine how the local PoC that are getting pushed back feel about that. Existing neighborhood watch networks already have people crying wolf…

I guarantee you whatever route you take in a city, you will fall under the gaze of at least one security camera.

It doesn't appear you have any evidence for your viewpoints, just vague fears, topped off with a standard appeal of "what about PoCs?"

Re: Products I Wish Existed

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Post by busymom0 » Mon, Jan 06, 2020, 9:28 PM UTC

Zhyl wrote: post #43

>What would be a network which allowed for more thoughtful discourse? Or at least the ability to more actively mute topics, threads, and groups of users while surfacing better content algorithmically? I would be interested in a parliament-like protocol for discussion, structured debate and reaching consensus. We currently have tools for proposing changes to text documents (such as pull requests) which could be applie…

Won’t votekicks lead to echo chambers?

Re: Products I Wish Existed

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Post by Kiro » Mon, Jan 06, 2020, 9:31 PM UTC

joshpadnick wrote: post #259

#1. Trinet for full-time remote/distributed workers. I've spent countless hours researching Global PEOs and reviewing their often poorly written contracts. If a reputable service existed that allowed us to hire in any country without having to form our own corporate entity in that country, we'd be ready to sign yesterday. Unfortunately, all existing services are either: * Too new (There are promising upstarts, but th…

What does PEO mean and what existing services have you found?

Re: Products I Wish Existed

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Post by umvi » Mon, Jan 06, 2020, 9:32 PM UTC

ctdonath wrote: post #196

gnopgnip wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HOAs in most states cannot issue liens for unpaid fines, only for unpaid dues or assessments.

Some form of enforcement must be available to the HOA. Otherwise I'd sow wheat in my yard and raise a gaggle of chickens starting tomorrow.

My neighbors (Maryland) have had a broken down car in front of their house for 2 years now. I see HOA violation notices on it every once in a while threatening to get it towed if they don't fix it, but nothing ever comes of it.

Re: Products I Wish Existed

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Post by imjha » Mon, Jan 06, 2020, 9:32 PM UTC

brixon wrote: post #203

jcadam wrote: post #136

> 7. Software-only defense contractor. Yea, I keep thinking of doing this but there's so much red tape in starting a defense company, it's seriously daunting. I'm a software developer in the defense industry, btw. > ...be focused on a more SaaS-centric software-driven model... Actually, I think the time may finally be right for something like this in my industry.

Take more normal stuff that exists and host it in FedRAMP and DOD IL4+ environments. I work for a DOD contractor and we can only use a few SaaS solutions, most are not secure enough. We have to host most stuff in-house and it's becoming harder to find software that we can either host in-house or is of a security level approved by the gov.

We specialize in helping organizations seeking FedRAMP accreditation. https://stackarmor.com/solutions-2/devops/ Please reach out if interested.

Re: Products I Wish Existed

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Post by ksdale » Mon, Jan 06, 2020, 9:33 PM UTC

ctdonath wrote: post #165

ksdale wrote: post #139

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Since HOAs are much less capable of doing violence to people, it's certainly not as harmful for them to implement this technology as it is for the state to do so, but I think the impulse to view every single person passing through the neighborhood as a potential threat can create a very dystopian vibe. There's always a house or two for sale in our neighborhood, and naturally people will slowly drive by the houses to…

Less capable of violence, yes, but still able to low-level terrorize or cause serious financial problems.

Yeah I agree, I thought the parent overstated the difference between governments and HOAs. A lot of HOAs are basically just the very local-est of local government, being responsible for roads and utilities, even approximating some functions of super small town law enforcement in the form of that guy who open carries really conspicuously.

Re: Products I Wish Existed

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Post by JohnFen » Mon, Jan 06, 2020, 9:36 PM UTC

ghaff wrote: post #168

NikolaNovak wrote: post #145

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My mind thinks hierarchically in everything I do so I understand that Google's "Search, don't sort" is difficult to adopt to. (Note, FWIW, though I think we're on the same page - the "business processes" I'm talking about in relation to ERP are less interface/program-mechanic based, and more along the lines of "Who is authorized/must approve" "How do we run accounting" "What is our procurement workflow" "How do you c…

I used to put a fair bit of effort into curating and filing emails, documents, etc. Over the past decade or so, aside from making sure that I put things I wanted to hang onto over the longer term into Archive folders so they didn't get deleted, I mostly stopped filing things and figured I'd just search for them if necessary. Doesn't always work especially if I don't remember quite what I'm looking for. But it's overa…

Years ago, I developed a similar habit with email.

I like to get emails out of my inbox as soon as I don't need them anymore (so my inbox always only contains the email that still requires my attention). But I don't do any sort of serious categorization/tagging/etc. -- the cost/benefit to doing that far too high.

Instead, I have a folder for each entity that I exchange emails with, and move the emails into the appropriate folder when I'm done with them, with no further categorization.

"one-off" emails (marketing, registration, etc.) just get deleted.

Re: Products I Wish Existed

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Post by Jedd » Mon, Jan 06, 2020, 9:38 PM UTC

deadmetheny wrote: post #95

Retric wrote: post #45

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Nuclear reactors don’t scale down very well. The economics really break down under about 10MW which is ~5,000 times more power than most homes need. Even ultra cost efficient full scale powerplants are a money losing proposition without huge subsidies. They are being squeezed between extremely cheap renewables, low cost natural gas, and rapidly advancing storage technology. Which is why nuclear was 17.6% of global el…

>Nuclear reactors don’t scale down very well. The economics really break down under about 10MW which is ~5,000 times more power than most homes need. This is true and fully agreed. Home reactors are not really feasible or even a good idea. >Even ultra cost efficient full scale powerplants are a money losing proposition without huge subsidies. They are being squeezed between extremely cheap renewables, low cost natura…

> Nuclear also has a lot of fearmongering and red tape around it. Plants are reaching their EOL and in many cases new ones are not being built due to the cost of getting through all the red tape (getting approval from the feds down to local government, dealing with inevitable NIMBY lawsuits, etc). Renewables are the future, but we aren't fully in the future yet.

This is a common trope.

I can't work out where you live, but I do often see this line of reasoning put forward by residents of the USA, who overlook the fact that 'the feds' don't regulate what happens in the other 95% of the planet, and yet other parts of the world are equally disinterested in building more nuclear fission plants.

It may be that the problems -- federal / national governments red tape, NIMBY lawsuits, local gov / state gov / provinces / councils, 'fearmongering', etc -- are common and similar everywhere, but this seems prima facie unlikely, certainly not demonstrated.