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I suspect much engineering software is ripe for innovation. My wife is a Water Resources Engineer- a specialized form of Civil that focuses on "when it rains, w
by mabbo 10y ago
I suspect much engineering software is ripe for innovation. My wife is a Water Resources Engineer- a specialized form of Civil that focuses on "when it rains, where the hell is all this water going to go?".
The software for that kind of modeling is apparently pretty basic, pretty expensive, buggy, etc.
- pavel_lishin 10y agoReminds me of the story that made the podcast rounds not too long ago, about the Mississippi River Basin Model. I thought it was shut down largely because much better software simulations were made available; are they still kinda crummy?
- wlesieutre 10y ago99% Invisible's America's Last Top Model. The Mississippi River Basin model was shut down because the computer models were cheaper and "good enough." They still use physical models today for other projects, albeit on a much smaller scale. Fluid simulation is a very difficult problem to simulate, structures are a lot simpler. http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/americas-last-top-model/ http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/americas-last-top-mode...
- fudged71 10y agoA friend of mine was an environmental consultant, and went to startup weekend. They successfully made a SaaS app that would spit out an environmental report in minutes instead of days of manual entry. Just a really good example of small applications that have a huge benefit in old industries http://www.enterratech.com/reports/1/ http://www.enterratech.com/reports/1/
- kpil 10y agoI think that the models are quite advanced and where the money goes. It does not mean that you just can't take a couple of web developers and make it usable, but as the market is small it might pass the price point with a supersonic bang...