I spent a while reading all the ideas posted here, and I think most of them are not great. Not that they are bad, just they seem like they would be really diffi

I spent a while reading all the ideas posted here, and I think most of them are not great. Not that they are bad, just they seem like they would be really difficult to make progress on, even with tons of funding. I tried to come up with some ideas myself, but I also couldn't. Changing the world is hard! Why aren't there more low hanging fruit? There is one idea that sticks in the back of my mind, and I keep seeing applications for it everywhere. An idea that I think would make the world a lot more efficient. I really think that there are applications all over the place for automated optimization. This is a common, recurring problem, that there are basically no tools for. And I believe a simple tool could be made that even an idiot could use for their weird problem. Imagine you are have a bunch of parameters that need optimized. Like for a machine learning model. You could plug those parameters into this tool, and it could suggest the optimal next test to perform. Or if you are designing an airplane wing, or a chemical mixture, or a food recipe, etc. A ton of things have parameters that can be optimized, but there are no simple tools for doing it. Of course that doesn't fit into the YC research model. It's more of a startup idea, or even better an open source tool.