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Re: New Requests for Startups

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Post by afinlayson »

frandroid wrote: post #58

It's a fantastic list; I'd like to comment on how some of the problems are already solved (outside the U.S.) or not cast properly. > Healthcare in the United States is badly broken. We are getting close to spending 20% of our GDP on healthcare; this is unsustainable. That's mostly a policy problem, not a technology problem. Countries with single-payer healthcare spend massively less on it per % of GDP than the United…

Agreed, I'm a Canadian living in the bay area, and I recently broke my collar bone in Canada. I went the the emergency room in Canada and again, when I touched down in the USA.

The room in Canada was paid out of pocket (because I'm not a resident) and cost $600 for 1 x-ray a consultation with 2 doctors and a room for the night, and another $30 for the pain meds (morphine)

The 60 minute consultation I had in the US was $150 co pay, which if I had no insurance would have been $2000 Which got me an x-ray and 15 minutes with a doctor and another $10 for "prescription" acetaminophen. (aka overpriced over the counter Tylenol)

Doctors aren't the problem, it's the insurance companies. I don't see how it's a technology problem as much as a political will (and maybe stubbornness in believing America is always the best even when it's not). The best we can hope for is technology can help by gathering political will.

I'd love to be proved wrong.

Re: New Requests for Startups

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Post by randall »

srcmap wrote: post #374
srcmap wrote: post #373

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I have similar needs to understand complex code base such as 5-20gb of Android platform code, so I wrote an webapp/site for that: It lets you cross reference and document any language with gigabytes of code, e.g. Android platform code. Jelly bean ~9 gb of code. Try it out: http://www.srcmap.org/s/sl.htm/p=android-4.2.2_r1 Sample Documents created from that app are here: http://www.srcmap.org/p/1/4af293f91271/Android_…

What does the yc folks/alum think? Good enough to get into yc?

Who are you selling it to / what's your plan to grow any part of the biz?

Re: New Requests for Startups

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Post by radicalbyte »

SupremumLimit wrote: post #362
miguelrochefort wrote: post #356

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The assumption that UI design must be done by hand is probably one of the most important "bottleneck" in software development. When you think about it, the job of a designer is often quite systematic. You have some entities/data you need to communicate to the user, through whatever interface/device that's available to him. A touchscreen, a keyboard, knobs, LEDs, microphone, speaker, paper, etc. When your "user" is a…

What you're saying is reasonable, and there are lots of people attempting to make RAD systems. Unfortunately, they always place severe limitations on the kind of software that can be created with them, and hence none of them have become particularly popular. It seems that there's something missing from all the existing implementations of your suggestion. Perhaps it is that the UI and data flow primitives that we have…

Delphi, Visual Basic, FoxPro and Access were all extremely popular RAD tools exactly because they made creating a certain class of systems extremely easy.

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Post by agorism »

Truthcoin satisfies 8 of the 22 requests: https://github.com/psztorc/Truthcoin

my implementation: https://github.com/zack-bitcoin/Truthcoin-POW

Science/Drug development: truthcoin allows for a new method of funding public goods that is far more impact per dollar than taxes.

Government: http://hanson.gmu.edu/futarchy.html

One million jobs: Successful traders can do it as a job. Every job that involves nothing more than decisions making can be replaced by a trader. Doctors, Governors, CEOs, various boards and counsels, Congressmen, Supreme Court Judges, etc. are all in danger of being replaced by anonymous, potentially uneducated, traders.

Diversity/Developing Countries: It will give modern financial instruments to everyone with internet connection. Insurance to hedge everyone's risks.

Enterprise Software: prediction markets are very unconnected today. Each business has a separate in-house prediction market built. They have to be heavily regulated. Truthcoin makes prediction markets as available as google or facebook.

Financial Services: prediction markets are a financial service. They are illegal. Use of a blockchain circumvents the law against prediction markets.

Re: New Requests for Startups

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Post by desireco42 »

radicalbyte wrote: post #211
randall wrote: post #71

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I had a pregnant wife and a kid at home when I went through YC last January. Another friend of mine had 3 kids and a wife he had to leave home. Realistically YC doesn't care what stage of life you're in, they just want you in Mountain View for 3 months so you can significantly improve the chances of your company growing large. It's difficult to make it work, but I promise for me it was totally worth it.

My wife would kill me if I left her alone for 3 months with a baby whilst she was pregnant.

And she should, this is important to be present when baby is born and growing. Those who 'communicated' importance to their wives... I don't have good explanation honestly. You don't want to be their kid anyway.

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Post by sqs »

JonnieCache wrote: post #368
eropple wrote: post #342

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FWIW, I think this is absolutely fucking genius and everyone should check it out... ...but I can't give you money without Java/Scala support. Roadmap? Pleeeeease? =)

The site doesn't seem to list which languages are supported.

Currently it's Python, Go, Ruby, and JavaScript (node.js only; not client-side yet). Java is coming soon. It does say it on the homepage and the docs page. Where were you looking? We'll make it clearer.

Re: New Requests for Startups

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Post by sqs »

vishnugupta wrote: post #354
eropple wrote: post #342

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FWIW, I think this is absolutely fucking genius and everyone should check it out... ...but I can't give you money without Java/Scala support. Roadmap? Pleeeeease? =)

Yes please! Also, I didn't see bitbucket support; hopefully you folks are working towards that?

Yes, we are working on better Bitbucket support (on par with our GitHub integration). You can follow or +1 the thread at https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph.com/issues/213 so you get updates.

Re: New Requests for Startups

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Post by srcmap »

randall wrote: post #392
srcmap wrote: post #374

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What does the yc folks/alum think? Good enough to get into yc?

Who are you selling it to / what's your plan to grow any part of the biz?

For now, free for individual developers to help validate and get tractions, like to see if i can entice free higher level license with exchange for contents/sharings, Doesn't seem to be working.

I like to sell it as team/site license for large dev team in the future. The traction doesn't seem to be there yet.

Because my burn rate is I am just slowly experiment with different features/msg/channels.

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