Is it only me, or why the FAQ on backpackbang's site is just talking only about Bangladesh?
Because the founders are from Bangladesh.
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#32Congrats to Chas and the Aptible bunch. Really smart guys. Also saw they joined RockHealth. Tackling a ton of hard problems in healthcare to make it easy for people to build apps. Learned quite a bit about HIPAA compliance from their blog, but it seems like they've taken that stuff down, unfortunately.
I looked at it the other day and it starts at $3,500/month. That's pretty much a non-starter for any bootstrapped health startup that wants to deploy a working MVP.
There is a development environment at $0.06/hour.
Anyway, I agree. I think the pricing is a bit too high for bootstrapped health startup.
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#33My prediction - in 4 year: backpackbang will dodge the bullets and be valued 300mln Biotech & Nuclear will continue research. One will yield value. Rest will pivot, acquihire or die.
Even if backpackbang dodges the bullets, I still don't see the market being that big for it. It's a total niche service.
I'm in Eastern Europe right now, and the percentage of people I know who do this, either via a friend, friend of a friend, or a client, is high.
Obvious, though not insurmountable, problems aside, I disagree it's niche.
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#34Question about Aptible .. What exactly does the HIPAA "compliance engine" do ? (ie) the list of parameters it checks for in a deployment ?
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Many months ago there was a thread on HN about words that only males or females know the definition of... Thats one option... (I can't track it down.) In the case of verifying women, you can simply ask the difference between different tampons or whatnot and most guys will have no clue. There are lots of things that ALL WOMEN know that men don't. In the case of the forum my wife participates in, they ask questions abo…
Are these things not googleable?
Not really. Many of these questions boil down to specific customs that are observed by different sects of Orthodox Jews. For example, how long to wait between eating meat and eating dairy can either be, 1 hr. 3 hrs., 5 hrs., 5hrs and 31 minutes or 6 hours.
If your other answers aren't consistent with the others, it would be obvious to the moderator. (i.e. you went to a lubavitch school, but wait the sephardik amount of time between meat and dairy.
Sure, some people can probably figure this all out, but the questions are just as much for making the users feel comfortable than it is to keep the one moron who googles this all, out of the forums.