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Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

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Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

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If I consider my industry going to bars to drink then the problem is lines. In 2017, I shouldn't walk/uber 20min in 20 degree weather to a bar only to find a 30min line which also has a surprise cover charge at the door. I've thought about this a lot and have some ideas...

Heres what I'm braining: Have everyone meet up, and a driver delivers a 6 pack to location.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

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What is the pricing at meetedgar.com? And what features they have that are essential and what are disposable? Their site seems to be purposefully opaque regarding these points.

Starts at $50 per month. You need to setup a "library" of blog posts (yours and others) and it will keep retweeting them on autopilot. I want something for $10 per month that simply connects to my blog and retweets posts all day. I'd imagine many bloggers would want it as well.

I was thinking about that these days. If I build it, will you be my first customer?

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

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A tech solution for what actually? The problem is that there are few (good?) bars in the area. The solution for that problem would be to open new bars.

You may disagree but I feel we are in an age of transparency. TripAdvisor, yelp, cargurus, Amazon reviews etc. Consumers want to know as much detail as possible prior to a purchase or visiting a hotel. My big point is that one of the remaining non transparent industries is nightlife. Bars create fake lines and charge bogus covers. I just feel like technology could improve this.

And they became profitable because they managed to provide a visibility service for millions of local establishments, not a bunch of crooked bars.

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I would approach this problem by opening a bar, not a startup.

Yeah, seems like there's a need for more bars instead of a complicated solution to a simple problem.

I wouldn't agree with that. Opening a bar is easy, but there is always a lot of empty bars. You need to make a popular, cool bar with a nice atmosphere that is on the perfect border of "going out" and "chilling", with a good gender ratio and you have to make it pretty popular. But that doesn't cut the lines in half in the other bars. I'm thinking there might be a solution in having a platform that allows you subscription-style entry into bars. Like pay 50$ a month and you get instant entry + 1 friend into a place. Add another friend for n$ where n is the average price of entry or determined by the hosting bar/club.
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