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Re: Products I Wish Existed

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Post by throwaway1777 »

worldsayshi wrote: post #281
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…

We need to separate the data layer from the app layer to allow free competition again. I don't think that Facebook will be replaced with something so similar. I think what we need is an open data-platform that can contain (in a controlled way) social media data along with other kinds of data and then allow building social media apps on top of it. Otherwise we'll always be stuck using whatever the biggest supplier bui…

Nah, this is what Facebook built and it caused Cambridge analytica.

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Post by jariel »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #288
jariel wrote: post #219

Earlier quoted context omitted.

" that implementing a new backoffice suite by a consulting company is one third or less technical / IT project; and two thirds or more business process / transformation project" It's at least 50% sales.

A cynical comment that has some roots in truth, but really needs some metrics defined to be useful :-) By time spent? Not on anything but the tiniest projects which are likely to be loss-leaders anyway. By value added? For consulting company, sure, that's one way to look at it; for the customer, probably not :P For the purposes of my post, pre-sales/sales/RFP/whatever were assumed to be done prior to start of impleme…

I'm not being cynical. The lifeblood of major consulting is the sales life cycle, which includes branding, relationship building. Lobbying costs. Responding to RFPs. Advertising. Trade shows. Expensive offices (to give the appearance of credibility). White papers. Paying off Gartner etc. so they put you in the 'good quadrant'. Partners at some firms spend nights a week having people in the industry over for dinner, nice wine etc..

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Post by FailMore »

I'm building two social networks and you are gonna L-O-V-E them.

> Taaalk (originally launched in 2016)

A place for online publicly available conversations. For example:

i) How to play chess https://web.archive.org/web/20160427044603/http://taaalk.co/...

ii) Value Investing https://web.archive.org/web/20160427023909/http://taaalk.co/...

> Nerdverse.xyz

A url only social network (a bit like HN, but with more content and discussions with people you know - you're only allowed to talk after you have been introduced to, and accepted by, the owner of the group). All chats are publicly available to read, but you can only participate after an introduction.

Please signup to my beta list: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScnuDIskbCAabMtGHQd...

Thanks for reading

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Post by knicholes »

Wistar wrote: post #278
hprotagonist wrote: post #3

Products I'm glad do NOT exist: 4. ADT 2.0: Digital neighborhood watch. Ring is gross enough, thank you very much.

My ex-neighborhood (Magnolia in Seattle) has had Flock Safety install 6 "AI" camera systems, two at each of the three entry/exit point of the neighborhood. Each installation has a camera overseeing entering traffic and one overseeing exiting traffic. The cameras have license-plate recognition and object detection for car color/make/model, pedestrians, bicyclists and even animals. Flock Safety charges $2,000 per year…

1. Set up some raspberry pis with cameras that run a webserver that when hit, it returns the current image.

2. Create a backend that queries each camera for their current image.

3. Run the images through some object recognition neural network (fastai has some great object recognition tutorials).

4. Make your backend stitch together the images from each camera to make a video of what was being recognized when objects of interest were detected (each camera will create its own video)

5. Create a nice little UI/App for everyone to view the movies with some filtering in place (time of day, object(s) of interest).

I want to create something like this as well. All of the pieces seem to be pretty straightforward to me except for figuring out power and network connectivity. I guess each neighbor would have to configure the device to use their SSID... and hope someone doesn't steal the raspberry pi and get the SSID credentials from memory... Maybe just make the neighbors use a separate network?

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Post by agandy »

jakelazaroff wrote: post #54
runjake wrote: post #8

#4 is a no-go in my book. Things like Ring, Nextdoor, and Facebook already exist. Nextdoor and Facebook are riddled with inanity, from political rants to dumb jokes to hoaxes to common scams to law enforcement rants. I don't want more information from my neighbors -- 99% of it is garbage. I want highly-filtered information. Basically, a neighborhood watch but with an aggressive spam filter. Right now I glance at the…

The "SaaS-ification" of security cameras should also worry us. Ring — not its customers — controls the videos taken with their cameras, creating a video surveillance network that the police can access without needing a warrant. They've partnered with 400 police forces to give them access to that data [1]. Although they claim to let customers deny police requests for footage, their terms of service allow them to hand…

Here's is a great long-form article on some of the societal implications of living in the age of Ring and NextDoor. It touches on this point throughout the article: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/11/steal...

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Post by oh_sigh »

wDcBKgt66V8WDs wrote: post #273
oh_sigh wrote: post #263

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?"

Yeah but there's a difference between an entire street of personal security systems accompanied by apps and social networks built on fear mongering. "just vague fears" they're called opinions which I'm allowed to have and voice in a public forum. Sorry for trying to consider the well being of the less privileged overly targeted people getting aggressively kicked out of their neighborhood.

PoC have a voice. If they have a fear, they can express it. They don't need a random white person hand-wringing on their behalf when that person self-admittedly doesn't even know how they might feel on the subject.

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Post by Budabellly »

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…

Dunbar's number seems relevant for this line of thinking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

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Post by theo44 »

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…

That's what we are building over at https://clay.run (free preview at the moment). We built a programmable spreadsheet.
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