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Plenty of room to grow in this market also. This same app could facilitate getting paid. Or timekeeping for the folks hiring the day laborers. When we think ab
by DanielBMarkham 11y ago
Plenty of room to grow in this market also. This same app could facilitate getting paid. Or timekeeping for the folks hiring the day laborers.
When we think about SV perhaps going through a downturn, we must remember that there are still hundreds or thousands of opportunities to write apps to help the extremely poor and vulnerable. This is great territory for app-writers who have teams of 1,2, or 3 -- but it'd make no sense at all to pursue if you were an established startup with a ton of overhead.
- pc86 11y agoDo you have any other ideas about apps to help the poor/vulnerable that a single developer could write?
- DanielBMarkham 11y agoThe problem here is that the problem is exactly the same as any startup -- ideas don't mean a lot. By that I mean that most any idea I could come up has probably been tried before. The trick will be finding a developer who is deeply immersed in the culture of folks they're tying to help and can speak to them. Anonymously identifying officials that asked you for a bribe. That'd be a great app. Finding the nearest potable water. Job search for unskilled workers. Craigslist for illiterate people (add in geo-location instead of cities)
- DanielBMarkham 11y agoMost especially in this market -- remember to develop for eyeballs, not money. That is, if you get enough eyeballs? You will be extremely rich.