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Ask HN: What are some exploding markets that you know of?

Reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19105733 made me think that you almost always need a rapidly growing market. If you've some unique insights in a market that you're willing to share with the HN community, please do it here.

sumitsrivastava 8y ago
Hi, OP here. The link I mentioned in the description doesn't seem to hyperlink. So here it is again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19105733 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19105733
- deleted 8y ago
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FahadUddin92 8y ago
1. Cloud (cloud hosting, managed cloud services) 2. Mental health (apps and tech to help combat mental health) 3. Gamification of things.
- sumitsrivastava 8y ago
  Cloud services are definitely growing, but where are the gaps? It's great that we're now tackling mental health issues via tech more seriously. Gamificatiom seem interesting, can you elaborate about that?
jaabe 8y ago
Robotic Process Automation, and the headache that’ll arrive with it because it’s basically building technical depth directly on top of legacy systems. In the European public and banking sectors we can’t hire enough people to meet the demands for it though. If you build something to make maintainability better, please feel free to contact me.
- jamessantiago 8y ago
  This one is a bit of a head scratcher and now I'm really curious. Isn't AI with deep learning a big part of this? And then, with AI like neural nets, isn't the whole point that you're building a model to discover hidden associations between data (tensors?) to make predictions, but that it's really hard to figure out how such a system arrives at a prediction? Shouldn't something like this be less than legal for a financial institution due to a lack of accountability? How do you protect against something like handing out subprime loans on questionable grounds?
- sumitsrivastava 8y ago
  What are the things that you need to automate but can't find people for it? How do you handle maintenance now and where could technology fill the gaps?
companyhen 8y ago
This website is kind of cool for trends. https://meetglimpse.com https://meetglimpse.com
- sumitsrivastava 8y ago
  Are you the creator of this website? This seems almost like Google Trends, but I wasn't able to capture a lot of value for exploding markets.
  - companyhen 8y ago
    No, I would have said if I was! :) I saw it on ProductHunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/glimpse-5 https://www.producthunt.com/posts/glimpse-5
    - sumitsrivastava 8y ago
      Seems like much of the value is in the newsletters, rather than the website. I get it now!

sumitsrivastava 8y ago

Hi, OP here. The link I mentioned in the description doesn't seem to hyperlink. So here it is again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19105733 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19105733

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FahadUddin92 8y ago

1. Cloud (cloud hosting, managed cloud services) 2. Mental health (apps and tech to help combat mental health) 3. Gamification of things.

sumitsrivastava 8y ago
Cloud services are definitely growing, but where are the gaps? It's great that we're now tackling mental health issues via tech more seriously. Gamificatiom seem interesting, can you elaborate about that?

jaabe 8y ago

Robotic Process Automation, and the headache that’ll arrive with it because it’s basically building technical depth directly on top of legacy systems. In the European public and banking sectors we can’t hire enough people to meet the demands for it though. If you build something to make maintainability better, please feel free to contact me.

jamessantiago 8y ago
This one is a bit of a head scratcher and now I'm really curious. Isn't AI with deep learning a big part of this? And then, with AI like neural nets, isn't the whole point that you're building a model to discover hidden associations between data (tensors?) to make predictions, but that it's really hard to figure out how such a system arrives at a prediction? Shouldn't something like this be less than legal for a financial institution due to a lack of accountability? How do you protect against something like handing out subprime loans on questionable grounds?
sumitsrivastava 8y ago
What are the things that you need to automate but can't find people for it? How do you handle maintenance now and where could technology fill the gaps?

companyhen 8y ago

This website is kind of cool for trends. https://meetglimpse.com https://meetglimpse.com

sumitsrivastava 8y ago
Are you the creator of this website? This seems almost like Google Trends, but I wasn't able to capture a lot of value for exploding markets.
- companyhen 8y ago
  No, I would have said if I was! :) I saw it on ProductHunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/glimpse-5 https://www.producthunt.com/posts/glimpse-5
  - sumitsrivastava 8y ago
    Seems like much of the value is in the newsletters, rather than the website. I get it now!