What is the problem in your industry/job/life that you would like someone to solve? hopefully this thread will lead to some startup ideas and some problems being solved.
Ask HN: What Is Your Problem?
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#2Not sure about startup but -- I'm unable to retain minutia in my brain for long (weeks, months, years) periods but the industry I work in requires it. Examples include:
How many queues does X have? How many are write-only queues? How many can be reconfigured to become wider queues? What are the protocols supported by Y? Which version of the protocols are supported?
I would like a tool, - accessible at my fingertips (through a keystroke), regardless of which Window on my Windows (or Linux) desktop has focus - Allows me to search/add/delete for "Facts" which are associated with "Values" - Will show me results in real-time (as I type, auto-suggest etc) - Easily dismissed by ESC once I've looked it up - Able to add/delete on the fly (through a keystroke); will take input as text and as CTRL+V from clipboard. Text, images, paths, etc supported - Scales to 500K+ items - Is able to bring up suggestions fast (Bonus points for: - Being able to extract this information automatically from PDFs, JPGs etc
If something like this exists, let me know!
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#3Recipes w/ calories, pricing to my favorite grocery stores (Trader Joes, Sprouts, Whole foods), and food prep instructions (sunday night prep)
I can tell you if you're looking to make this a startup idea, its a shitty one. Bad Market, Hard problem.
With that said, I'd pay >$100 a year for it.
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#4Shazam but for every track on soundcloud above 500 listens.
There are way too many good songs on there that will never hit more mainstream platforms and be recognized by Shazam.
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#5German bureaucracy makes automation very difficult. Each case depends on the human that will handle it, and how they feel that day.
No one has the authority to make lasting improvements, and no one has an incentive to take the initiative anyway. There is resistance to change because everyone is either too busy or too lazy to help.
My job is to help immigrants navigate this mess. My strategy to help them is three-tiered: information, tools, policy. So far, policy feels completely out of reach, despite my best effort.
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#6Proper attribution of sales conversions. Especially if the lead has been reached using various channels.
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#7Not sure about startup but -- I'm unable to retain minutia in my brain for long (weeks, months, years) periods but the industry I work in requires it. Examples include: How many queues does X have? How many are write-only queues? How many can be reconfigured to become wider queues? What are the protocols supported by Y? Which version of the protocols are supported? I would like a tool, - accessible at my fingertips (…
Emacs with org-roam? Bonus question left as an exercise for the reader...
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#8I need to focus on one learning objective and dump a few months at least. I simply cannot focus for that long.
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#9Not sure about startup but -- I'm unable to retain minutia in my brain for long (weeks, months, years) periods but the industry I work in requires it. Examples include: How many queues does X have? How many are write-only queues? How many can be reconfigured to become wider queues? What are the protocols supported by Y? Which version of the protocols are supported? I would like a tool, - accessible at my fingertips (…
The main trick is to turn "facts" that exist in your head or possibly in a program's address space into something more concrete/searchable/discoverable, like a log line, source comment, manual entry, etc.
Otherwise, your database of 'facts' and 'values' will inevitably become out of date if you try to maintain it out of band.
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#10I want an implicitly parallel programming language. Write code that looks single threaded, doesn't have any mutex/spawn/channel stuff in it, that runs on one core locally or the nearby cluster with the same behaviour and lower wall clock time.