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I'm toying with couple of ides: - niche, saas, privacy first search engine (for developers, lawyers, any profession) - paid search engine for quality websites

I'm toying with couple of ides: - niche, saas, privacy first search engine (for developers, lawyers, any profession) - paid search engine for quality websites only, such as hobby, personal blogs and non for profit in general, also company blogs can match that criteria, i.e. exclude websites with ads (like reddit), popups (medium, quora) and so on - I feel like we have a place for one more "not evil" git hosting tool without telemetry :) - email maid easy like all in one written from scratch on high level language like python, ruby, etc. Maybe I'll do them all when I can sustain myself enough to work fulltime on side projects. Search engines are quite capital intensive though. Also as many wrote here, you don't have to wait for one year, just start today with general planing, work on the business model, talk with customers, talk couple of agreements in advance to reach later when you'll have a product and so on.

sethammons 7y ago
Can you go into more detail on "email made easy"?
- vpEfljFL 7y ago
  Right now email is like kubernetes, you can do it yourself but most likely better buy it from service providers like gsuite etc. I think sosciety in general will benefit with all in one simple to host package written in high level language. Email right now is extrimely complicated ("s" in smtp is for "simple" btw) and in order to do it yourself you need to understand many parts of it like dmark reports, constant monitoring of delivery, spam, spf, dkim etc. There are couple of bare-bones opensource solutions to host it yourself but if you do it from scratch you will go either with postfix or exim. They are written in "low-level" languages like C where extremely hard to write proper software without buffer overflows and so on. I think there is a place for innovation for better security and user experience as well. You can sell additional services like better spam and malware detection or delivery monitoring and support for enterprise. I wish I can do it myself but I'm already occupied with too many side projects :)

sethammons 7y ago

Can you go into more detail on "email made easy"?

vpEfljFL 7y ago
Right now email is like kubernetes, you can do it yourself but most likely better buy it from service providers like gsuite etc. I think sosciety in general will benefit with all in one simple to host package written in high level language. Email right now is extrimely complicated ("s" in smtp is for "simple" btw) and in order to do it yourself you need to understand many parts of it like dmark reports, constant monitoring of delivery, spam, spf, dkim etc. There are couple of bare-bones opensource solutions to host it yourself but if you do it from scratch you will go either with postfix or exim. They are written in "low-level" languages like C where extremely hard to write proper software without buffer overflows and so on. I think there is a place for innovation for better security and user experience as well. You can sell additional services like better spam and malware detection or delivery monitoring and support for enterprise. I wish I can do it myself but I'm already occupied with too many side projects :)