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Products I Wish Existed

• joncrane 7y ago
  While only a footnote, I like the nod to nuclear energy. I remember in the 1950s, there was a Popular Mechanics cover touting nuclear as a coming technology to power homes and even cars. Imagine the next Tesla-like company offering to install a small nuclear reactor in houses. Like solar, you can sell electricity back to the grid, charge your electric car with it, literally use it to heat your water.... Also might be a very attractive option to going off-grid.
  • Daneel_ 7y ago
    Yes, absolutely. Today’s modern reactors are night and day compared to Chernobyl/Fukushima era reactors - they’re not even comparable. They’re fail-safe rather than fail-deadly, and are much more compact and efficient, with better controls and containment. The size of the reaction chamber is basically that of a household washing machine. I’d gladly live next door to a modern plant.
    • criddell 7y ago
      What exactly do you mean by fail safe? Are there no catastrophic failure modes? So even if a group of people with malicious intent were to gain access, they couldn't do more damage than with a natural gas or coal burning plant?
      • acidburnNSA 7y ago
        Not parent commenter, but I'll repeat what I said above to someone else about what fail-safe means in terms of nuclear reactors: Fail-safe just means that if equipment breaks or a human does something wrong, the plant goes to low power and passive natural-circulation systems kick-in that keep the low-power shutdown mode from going to temperatures high enough to break the radiation containment structures. Recall that coal plants and oil emissions kill 4-6 million people per year from air pollution. Nuclear plants are crazy safe compared to that. And while natural gas is safe from an air pollution POV, the hazards of climate change from it are potentially large. Nuclear reactors are essentially carbon-free.
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    • ljhsiung 7y ago
      Sorry for being pedantic, but do you mean fail-secure? Fail-safe = things inside the area can get out on failure. Fail-secure = things cannot get out i.e. catastrophe is contained (though people inside may die). I don't know much about reactor design, but I don't think I'd live next door to a fail-safe plant, but please correct me if I'm misguided because.
      • acidburnNSA 7y ago
        In general, fossil kills 4-6 million people per year from air pollution. Nuclear has killed ~4000 total, ever. So nuclear plants are very, very safe compared to normal energy alternatives. Fail-safe just means that if equipment breaks or a human does something wrong, the plant goes to low power and passive natural-circulation systems kick-in that keep the low-power shutdown mode from going to temperatures high enough to break the radiation containment structures.
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    • acidburnNSA 7y ago
      Current reactors are extremely safe compared to fossil if you look at the stats. 3 orders of magnitude safer in a deaths/TWh basis. The new designs (which are actually all revivals of 1960 designs) may be safer and cheaper but we have yet to prove that. I'm in the middle of writing an elaborate history of the quest for economical nuclear power to help with this discussion.
    • asdff 7y ago
      I dream of the day when all the oil derricks and refineries hidden behind facades all over west Los Angeles would be replaced by nuclear energy, not to mention the inglewood oil field.
  • Retric 7y ago
    Nuclear reactors don’t scale down very well. The economics really break down under about 10MW which is ~5,000 times more power than most homes need. Even ultra cost efficient full scale powerplants are a money losing proposition without huge subsidies. They are being squeezed between extremely cheap renewables, low cost natural gas, and rapidly advancing storage technology. Which is why nuclear was 17.6% of global electricity generation in the late 90’s but has fallen to 10% in 2019.
    • deadmetheny 7y ago
      >Nuclear reactors don’t scale down very well. The economics really break down under about 10MW which is ~5,000 times more power than most homes need. This is true and fully agreed. Home reactors are not really feasible or even a good idea. >Even ultra cost efficient full scale powerplants are a money losing proposition without huge subsidies. They are being squeezed between extremely cheap renewables, low cost natural gas, and rapidly advancing storage technology. Plants are expensive due to the regulation and insurance making them that way. Safety with nuclear is obviously paramount, but political and social pressure has expanded a lot of the requirements to quite a high degree. Additionally, renewable are also subsidized quite a lot and are not always viable in all locales. Storage tech is good for all forms of power generation. >Which is why nuclear was 17.6% of global electricity generation in the late 90’s but has fallen to 10% in 2019. Nuclear also has a lot of fearmongering and red tape around it. Plants are reaching their EOL and in many cases new ones are not being built due to the cost of getting through all the red tape (getting approval from the feds down to local government, dealing with inevitable NIMBY lawsuits, etc). Renewables are the future, but we aren't fully in the future yet.
      • Jedd 7y ago
        > Nuclear also has a lot of fearmongering and red tape around it. Plants are reaching their EOL and in many cases new ones are not being built due to the cost of getting through all the red tape (getting approval from the feds down to local government, dealing with inevitable NIMBY lawsuits, etc). Renewables are the future, but we aren't fully in the future yet. This is a common trope. I can't work out where you live, but I do often see this line of reasoning put forward by residents of the USA, who overlook the fact that 'the feds' don't regulate what happens in the other 95% of the planet, and yet other parts of the world are equally disinterested in building more nuclear fission plants. It may be that the problems -- federal / national governments red tape, NIMBY lawsuits, local gov / state gov / provinces / councils, 'fearmongering', etc -- are common and similar everywhere, but this seems prima facie unlikely, certainly not demonstrated.
  • joejerryronnie 7y ago
    I’m pretty sure my HOA has a clause against installing a personal nuclear reactor in our home :)
• dsalzman 7y ago
  +100 "I would love to see the following analysis: A map of repetitious tasks, spreadsheets, and manual data extraction by function in the Fortune 500. Budget breakdown of current software spend, by function, by line, in the Fortune 500. A view of what Accenture, CapGemini, and Deloitte keep building over and over for large enterprises. Undoubtedly a subset of these custom consulting projects can be turned into SaaS software. A tougher analysis to do is to ask what internal software projects various tech companies are working on. If you can get the list from 3-4 companies, you will undoubtedly see a few internal tool or product examples that should be built as a SaaS product for everyone."
  • 0xff00ffee 7y ago
    ERP is hard. VERY hard.
    • UK-Al05 7y ago
      It is, but there is also a lot of artificial complexity created for lock-in purposes. A lot of ERP systems move away from well-trodden programming tools to their own custom stuff. I know of ERP systems have their own source control version control systems. Why? They're often awful to use. The programmers that use them are often business-focused haven't really used stuff outside that ecosystem. So they don't know how bad it is. Most ERP implementations i've come across make little use of automated testing as well.
      • NikolaNovak 7y ago
        Automated testing is becoming the norm, but I'd agree that otherwise ERP developers, on average, are either unaware, or simply not able to utilize most of the tools and practices from the wider market.
      • mgkimsal 7y ago
        or... they create their own internal DSLs - customers and internal people use those - and everyone spends years thinking about the 'custom DSL' way. Developing any sort of automated testing around your own custom language basically becomes impossible. I did some work for a place where, they embedded groovy as their 'write custom rules stuff from the UI' language - that was at least easier to reason about, and to debug/test offline (not automated, but somewhat easier than a DSL that only runs inside the system).
• hprotagonist 7y ago
  Products I'm glad do NOT exist: 4. ADT 2.0: Digital neighborhood watch. Ring is gross enough, thank you very much.
  • tinus_hn 7y ago
    It already exists in apps for nosey neighbors like Nextdoor
    • scarface74 7y ago
      Aka: “I see a suspicious looking Black Guy in our suburban neighborhood. It looks like he is breaking into a house by using a remote to open a garage door and driving in.”
      • notJim 7y ago
        Also: "why haven't the cops arrested all these homeless people yet?"
      • jedberg 7y ago
        Yeah, my Next-door has a lot of that. They aren't that obvious though. I like to call them out. "I saw a suspicious man walking down the street!" "What made him suspicious?" "He just doesn't look like he belongs here." "Why?" "He's black" "Being black isn't suspicious" I then I get an email from Next-door about my comments being reported!
    • Normal_gaussian 7y ago
      I signed up to our Nextdoor (uk). There seems to be four things on here: - an avon lady over agressively spamming her stuff (blocked) - people asking for small job recommendations (who should I get to fix my garden gate, babysitter, tv ariel fitting) - some notices about local events (when / where fireworks, Remembrence, carolling) - group commiseration that one time some group was speeding all over town at midnight running red lights and keeping us up with their skidding and revving. Honestly pretty good. I see it maybe once a week.
• runjake 7y ago
  #4 is a no-go in my book. Things like Ring, Nextdoor, and Facebook already exist. Nextdoor and Facebook are riddled with inanity, from political rants to dumb jokes to hoaxes to common scams to law enforcement rants. I don't want more information from my neighbors -- 99% of it is garbage. I want highly-filtered information. Basically, a neighborhood watch but with an aggressive spam filter. Right now I glance at the various neighborhood feeds with one eye closed, sifting through the intense stupidity, trying to capture valuable intelligence. Of course, all of this may be a dumb corporate-run idea and maybe people should really focus on forming good relationships with their neighbors in meatspace and talk to them in person aka HUMINT.
  • Someone1234 7y ago
    > Of course, all of this may be a dumb corporate-run idea and maybe people should really focus on forming good relationships with their neighbors in meatspace and talk to them in person aka HUMINT. But then how do we filter out the political rants, insanity, dumb jokes, hoaxes, and common scams?
    • dwaltrip 7y ago
      Thankfully, people usually do a decent job of filtering themselves in meatspace. At least, they are better at it in person than they are online.
      • cgriswald 7y ago
        There are also social cues and the lack of an ever present mob. A lot of people who are political activists online are not actually that confident in their views and absent the audience and ready defenders, won't express their views because they know they can't back it up in a one-on-one conversation. Our city did a traffic survey of a local street that is the primary route for everyone going from surrounding neighborhoods to downtown and found the average speed was ~2 mph over the posted limit, with the 85th percentile at ~5 mph over the speed limit. These are reasonable speed for such a wide road. The city then added several 'safety' features to it, and found in a subsequent survey that the changes actually did little to slow traffic. One feature is a pair of speed bumps. Some drivers slow to about 5 mph to go over the bumps, increasing the risk of rear end accidents. Other drivers veer into the bike lanes to go partially around them without slowing down. Everyone else slows down a reasonable amount, but then subsequently accelerate back up to the speed limit on a block where jaywalking is common. Some of the features they added are, in my opinion, beneficial, like turning a side street into a one way road after frequent accidents from people turning left out of it. But you can't talk about it on Nextdoor. The second you criticize the speed bumps you'll be ignored (if you're lucky) or attacked. Nuance is not allowed. You're either for all the changes, even the dangerous ones, or you're a crazy speed demon. Meanwhile, if you post about 'the children' who you are afraid for (even though no one has any evidence of a child ever being hurt by a driver on this road), you're going to get upvoted a lot within the first ten minutes.
• dr_dshiv 7y ago
  Are there other rundown like this? I appreciate the concept more than the content.
  • jborichevskiy 7y ago
    Less focused on business ideas and more on digital tools, but I wrote something similar a month or so ago: https://jborichevskiy.com/posts/digital-tools/ https://jborichevskiy.com/posts/digital-tools/
    • samatman 7y ago
      Link to HN discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21659876 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21659876
  • paulgb 7y ago
    There are a handful out there under the name "request for startups" (popularized by YC, I believe) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22request+for+startups%22&t=fpas&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22request+for+startups%22&t=fpas&...
• davedx 7y ago
  > NoCode/LowCode (letting anyone build an app with a spreadsheet as a database representation) AirTable has made huge inroads here. I'm also building something in this area (https://lightsheets.app/ https://lightsheets.app/), turning slightly back towards spreadsheets instead of databases but then building enhancements and modern integrations on top. I think there's still lots of potential in this area, despite spreadsheets being 50 years old.
  • flanbiscuit 7y ago
    Glide apps also falls into this realm. You make an app from a Google Sheet. Found out about it from HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19163081 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19163081 https://www.glideapps.com/ https://www.glideapps.com/
  • mmckelvy 7y ago
    I think building apps with spreadsheets makes sense, but to me the spreadsheet works better as the UI, not the database. In other words, you still store your data in a plain RDBMS, but you access and manipulate that data via spreadsheet formulas or custom functions.
    • davedx 7y ago
      Maybe... but a regular spreadsheet doesn't map very well to a RDBMS due to its variable and flat structure. It might map to a column data store like Cassandra I guess, wonder if anyone has looked at that? What I'm working on though is more about taking the core of existing spreadsheets and building powerful integrations on top of it. Like in the sibling comments, building a webapp, or something else. I really think this has huge potential.
      • 80386 7y ago
        What about a spreadsheet program that can be scripted with Javascript? JS is nice because all you need to write it is a text editor and a web browser, both of which just about all computers have. I had an entry-level job that involved a computer once and automated a lot of the painful stuff with JS - I bet that if more people knew JS, more people would do the same. I don't know if that'd be a good business proposition, but I think it could be a good on-ramp.
• brenden2 7y ago
  None of these are particularly interesting to me. Seems like an observation-based list, based on what's currently trendy.
• melling 7y ago
  “ function that dramatically improves lots of people's quality of life. Examples would include eyesight and hearing. For example, many people start to get blurry vision in their 40s, due to a variety of factors including the mix of proteins in the lens of the eye causing hardening and potentially the muscle holding the lens aging. Could a simple approach like rapamycin droplets in the eye reverse aspects of aging and therefore eyesight? ” Yeah, I’ve heard about the protein buildup problem for twenty years now. Hopefully, someday... Here’s an August 2000 article from the NYT that discusses the problem: https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/08/health/reading-glasses-as-inevitable-as-death-and-taxes-or-are-they.html https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/08/health/reading-glasses-as... Well into the 21st Century, and I must say I’m a little disappointed. After that second DARPA Grand Challenge, I’d have said “no way we don’t have self-driving cars by 2020”
  • eladgil 7y ago
    It is surprising how little has been done here. A failure of the pharma/academic model perhaps. I am going to write more on why biotech does not innovate as much as it could, in another post.
• georgewsinger 7y ago
  Elad Gil is a really smart investor (his list of Unicorn investments is probably larger than any other angel), but -- with the exception of (11) and (12) -- this doesn't strike me as a very ambitious list.
  • eladgil 7y ago
    Agreed on not crazy ambitious for most of these. Honestly, this really is just a list of products I would like to use (with 1 or 2 exceptions). There are a lot of things that should exist but are harder to do: -Safe, cheap nuclear power -Longevity drugs (I am involved with two companies in that area) -Independent journalism school/foundation -Pioneer on steroids (how to identify and nurture the top global talent for every area of human endeavor) -Etc. But that is perhaps another post / different topic? What else would you add?
• hailpixel 7y ago
  > 1. Trinet for full-time remote/distributed workers. [Boundless](https://boundlesshq.com/ https://boundlesshq.com/) is a startup that is tackling this exact problem through automating the entire "employe(e/r) of record" process.
  • woodhull 7y ago
    Excited that someone is working on this. It's a definite pain point for smaller remote software teams like ours who want to be able to hire talent globally while ensuring that everyone regardless of location has great benefits and is ticking all of their local compliance boxes.
  • klaudius 7y ago
    https://papayaglobal.com/ https://papayaglobal.com/ is another one
  • EamonLeonard 7y ago
    Co-founder of Boundless here, thanks @hailpixel for the shout out. AMA! Here's a link to my soundcloud, we're hiring, thanks for coming to my TEDx talk. We are hiring though.
    • soneca 7y ago
      Any jobs page? Couldn't find it on the site linked above. I am frontend developer looking for a remote position
      • EamonLeonard 7y ago
        Drop me a mail: eamon@boundlesshq.com
  • sytse 7y ago
    Cool! I've had the same need since 2016 https://sytse.com/2016/12/28/adyen-for-payrolling.html https://sytse.com/2016/12/28/adyen-for-payrolling.html
• buldoeo 7y ago
  Correct me if I'm wrong, but No 5 already exists?! I'm from Europe. I have an app on my phone that shows me the pollution in the city I am. I check on it every time I'm in different places. It's called AirVisual. I installed it from google play, I have android.
  • mdorazio 7y ago
    I think he means a much more granular pollution map than what's available at the city level. Something like being able to get accurate pollution data at sub-kilometer precision, especially in suburb areas where monitoring stations tend to be sparse.
    • lisiado 7y ago
      There is a project in Germany which collects the data of stations you can build yourself with an esp8266 and a sensor. https://luftdaten.info/ https://luftdaten.info/
      • hawski 7y ago
        Thanks for the link. Users outside of Germany already use it. I think I will participate. For some time I was thinking about an amateur network of air pollution sensors, that seems to be it. Is there something with more reach in Europe or at least Poland (where I'm at)?
        • lisiado 7y ago
          Yes I just realized that it's already in use outside of Germany as I visited the website. I will set it up myself as well.
    • 0ld 7y ago
      When there are big air pollution problems, people and municipalities usually install their own monitors. Say, I live in a region with a very bad air quality in winter, and in the vicinity of my house there're at least 4 devices I can (and do) check - 2 from airly.eu (within 200m, installed by the village) and 2 from luftdaten.info (within ~1km, installed by the locals) and one mine
• jayrwren 7y ago
  #4: vivint smart home already has #4, including an app called streetwatch which does the multi-camera with neighbors grouping. #10: a mouse is a mammal. perhaps author meant apes?
  • eladgil 7y ago
    Thanks - #10 was a typo. Updated to "human". :)
• contravariant 7y ago
  The author seems to have put more thought into what can exists, as opposed to what ought to exist.
  • eladgil 7y ago
    This is purposeful. These are just some products I want. There are a lot of things that should exist but are harder to do: -Safe, cheap nuclear power -Longevity drugs (I am involved with two companies in that area) -Independent journalism school/foundation -Pioneer on steroids (how to identify and nurture the top global talent for every area of human endeavor) -Etc. But that is perhaps another post / different topic.
    • TeMPOraL 7y ago
      I think GP's point is that some things on that list ought not to exist. Personally, I have some reservations about the neighbourhood watch thing.
      • eladgil 7y ago
        Ah - you are right. Thanks for catching the misinterpretation on my end.
• aj7 7y ago
  Infer from the most secret corporate software projects problem commonalities and build a huge company devoted to these is not a realistic product proposal.
• kevinmgranger 7y ago
  For #2, the fediverse is lively and growing every day. One of the easiest ways to join is through a mastodon[1] instance. Alternatively, there are other[2] clients available. I know many of these are similar to existing social networks, and thus might not be different enough to fit the criteria of the article. But the federated aspect of it-- seeing small pocket communities form-- adds something to it. [1]: https://joinmastodon.org/ https://joinmastodon.org/ [2]: https://fediverse.party/ https://fediverse.party/
• Zhyl 7y ago
  >What would be a network which allowed for more thoughtful discourse? Or at least the ability to more actively mute topics, threads, and groups of users while surfacing better content algorithmically? I would be interested in a parliament-like protocol for discussion, structured debate and reaching consensus. We currently have tools for proposing changes to text documents (such as pull requests) which could be applied to a community rules/laws or values system, but we don't have anything that can debate the changes, log objections, track resolutions and compromises in a structured way. I've seen places where community decision making is emergent (e.g. autobans when a users reputation drops below a certain threshold or votekick in games) but nothing that formalises the process, allows review of results, links decisions to overarching principles (or notes where a principle has not been followed due to circumstances).
  • jonshariat 7y ago
    To add to this concept, it would be great if the elements of a quality argument[1] (i.g. Claims, Counterclaims, Reasons, Evidence, etc.) were built in. Also people could flag a comment (or parts of it) with a specific logical fallacy[2]. It would help guide people into arguing more fruitfully and better digesting what they read. 1. https://study.com/academy/lesson/parts-of-an-argument-claims-counterclaims-reasons-and-evidence.html https://study.com/academy/lesson/parts-of-an-argument-claims... 2. https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/
    • pas 7y ago
      It would be great to show arguments as processes (data, model(s), evaluation/claims), and other arguments as specific problems with the process (logical problem, bias, low quality data, bad statistics, etc..) Ultimately everyone should be able to agree on the data, the model and the evaluation separately. The differences should boil down to differences in personal assumptions (different Bayesian apriori distributions, eg. different morals, worldview, thresholds for things, etc.) This should lead to questions about stuff that is either subjective and thus people can agree to disagree, or to simpler objective problems. (For example that data collection methodology leads to higher uncertainty than claimed, hence the whole argument becomes inconclusive.)
• soneca 7y ago
  About new social networks, I am building one that I am calling "a quiet social network". Copy/pasting from my landing what it means: A personal journal and a social network that will provide a quiet space to reflect about yourself and also to nurture your long term relationships with the people that you care about. Why “quiet”? Because this social network won't have the frenetic rhythm of news and updates of all other social networks. A quiet space is just as quiet as the quietest sound. Quid Sentio is being designed so you will only listen to your voice and the voice of your close ones. A digital space to cultivate conversations more meaningful than the loud noise of social media and more long-lasting than the unsearchable small talk of instant messengers. Quid Sentio is for you if you want to... Avoid the deafening rumble of the crowds. You will only see public entries from people that have both being included in your list and included you in their list. No stranges following you (or even knowing you have an account). Avoid the tiresome grumble of the acquaintances. There will be no way to search for people on the site or to see a list of your friends' friends. Also, there will be a limit of people you can add to your list without reciprocity, so no way to spam everyone in your contact list. Avoid the popularity contests of perfect lives. There will be no way to like entries, only conversations. Also, there will be no way to share content outside of the list of who posted. So no way to go viral and no instant rewards. Avoid the manipulative tricks of addiction dealers. All the design decisions above already point to a social network with less activity. Adding to that, you won't see any advertising on the site, so there is no incentive to keep you aimless wandering around here. Stay as long as you need to connect with your family, your close friends, and yourself. Then leave. Avoid the news, the memes, the FOMO. As the posts all follow the same design of journal entries, with no images and no special treatment for external links, you will probably won't see much news or click-baity articles, unless a close friend wants to comment on them. Also, no company accounts either. If you are interested: https://www.quidsentio.com https://www.quidsentio.com
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  • dehugger 7y ago
    Your web site isn't loading at all for me. Glancing at the console it looks like you have a timeout error, and the loading gif just runs forever. Chrome Version 79.0.3945.88 (Official Build) (64-bit)
• hntddt1 7y ago
  Check for the latest biotech https://www.neuralink.com/ https://www.neuralink.com/
• dreamcompiler 7y ago
  "Unlike Palantir, which seems to have a services-centric model, this new company would be focused on a more SaaS-centric software-driven model." I thought Palantir was extremely software-driven. Could someone clear up what the above sentence means?
  • ndarwincorn 7y ago
    Judging off Glassdoor reviews, most of their devs are embedded ('forward-deployed' in their militaristic lingo). From that and my own short interview experience a few years ago, a lot of their revenue comes from bespoke ETL for clients into an on-prem software deployment and there's no concrete push to move to something more off-the-shelf.
  • scarejunba 7y ago
    Palantir does really well for what they do, but this article is as true today as it was in 2016 in terms of what they are https://simplystatistics.org/2016/05/11/palantir-struggles/ https://simplystatistics.org/2016/05/11/palantir-struggles/ They're almost just a consultancy.
• ndespres 7y ago
  "A view of what Accenture, CapGemini, and Deloitte keep building over and over for large enterprises. Undoubtedly a subset of these custom consulting projects can be turned into SaaS software." I love the idea of figuring out how we can stop reinventing the wheel. Too much of this work really has no benefit to society yet keeps getting done, over and over. I wish for a way to pull the brakes and re-evaluate what it is that we are all doing exactly, and for whose benefit.
• aaavl2821 7y ago
  There are biotech startups working on all of those already There are a couple interesting gene therapy companies workout on hearing (akuous and decibel among others). Lots of ophthalmology gene therapy companies also, as well as more traditional companies. Hair regeneration has been a popular area of research for a while Most companies work on biomarkers as part of the drug dev process. However building a business around just biomarkers is hard -- you need to develop your own drugs based on those biomarkers. Diagnostics is really tough bc reimbursement and pop health is tough bc incentive alignment is nearly impossible in many contexts
  • eladgil 7y ago
    Which of these do you think are farthest along? Gene therapy seems to be working a little bit in ex-vivo approaches (you take cells out, modify them, and put them back in, largely in the immune system) but progress elsewhere is very limited.
    • aaavl2821 7y ago
      Re akuous and decibel, I don't know too much about their programs Re eye diseases / blindness, there is at least one approved gene therapy for a form of congenital blindness, luxturna: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-novel-gene-therapy-treat-patients-rare-form-inherited-vision-loss https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr... the eye is one of the areas where gene therapy delivery is currently feasible. other areas include the CNS using AAV9. Perhaps the most impactful gene tx yet approved is Avexis' Zolgensma (Avexis was acq by Novartis for $8-9B in 2018). Zolgensma is a potential cure for spinal muscular atrophy, the leading genetic cause of infant death. Zolgensma did $160M in its first full quarter on the market Other areas where we will likely see approved gene therapies soon include blood diseases like hemophilia, beta thalessemia. In addition to blood, eye and motor neurons, the liver is a popular target for gene therapy as all of these tissues are easier to deliver gene tx to with current technology Delivering gene tx to other tissues is not really feasible as far as i know at this point
• Causality1 7y ago
  I want a single service I can plug a bunch of creators and/or genres/interests into and get alerted about available new content. I don't care about book tours or interviews or someone leaving the band or twitter drama. Just tell me when one of my favorite authors releases a book for sale. Tell me when the album is out. Tell me when the game is on Steam. I don't care about your broken Kickstarter promises or your development updates or your Hugo Award nomination or that you've begun recording your new album.
  • fenwick67 7y ago
    https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/latest/DG/ItemSearch.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/latest/DG/It... would be a good place to start
  • FajitaNachos 7y ago
    I've thought about this some too. Almost like an "alert for anything" type service. Defining the schema seems tricky though.
• nrjames 7y ago
  Purple Air hits on a bit of the neighborhood pollution sensor idea: https://www2.purpleair.com/ https://www2.purpleair.com/ I've used their API to look at California wildfire data.
  • Patrick_Devine 7y ago
    Purple Air has been extremely popular in our community due to the wild fires here in California. There are quite a few sensors around town, and it gives you a good idea about how to prepare the kids for school and whether we should be riding bicycles.
    • asdff 7y ago
      How do you act on the air quality info? Seems to me that riding a bike or driving a car you'd be breathing the same air.
      • modeless 7y ago
        When you ride a bike you breathe a lot more. Staying indoors and exercising less (therefore breathing less) while you are outside are the two main things you can do when air quality is bad.
  • modeless 7y ago
    Their API is great. I found their site a little slow for something I want to check regularly so I built a faster one based on the API: https://aqi.today https://aqi.today If there's a PurpleAir sensor near you, it will show you the reading instantly. It also updates the favicon so you can leave it open in the background and check the reading just by glancing at the tab.
    • asdff 7y ago
      This is great! saved to home screen on iOS for convenience
  • sillypuddy 7y ago
• dr-detroit 7y ago
  There are no AAA social platforms without CIA backing from the start. It could never happen independently.
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• blackbrokkoli 7y ago
  > 4. ADT 2.0: Digital neighborhood watch. That this is not only a market, but a "wish" which seems to get traction even here on HN confirms to me that the old joke "1984 is not a manual" is more relevant than ever, and scarily not only in regards to the usual suspects, corporate and nation states, but people themselves. Can anyone explain to me why anyone would advocate a profit-driven, systematic eradication of soul and character around each and every human residence? Why would you trade the vibrancy of your young urban block or the sense of trust and community in your suburb against prevention of low-impact black-swan events like serial packet thiefs? Why would you surrender your home, not only your safe haven in life but also your gateway to low effort exploration of your surroundings to wide-spanning AI surveillance and automated purge of any nuisance? Maybe I am just weird or out of touch but I can absolutely not get in my head how people surrender to such a dull dystopia based on an apparent fetish for weaponized gossip and abnormal levels of fear of petty crimes...
  • umvi 7y ago
    1984 is only a manual if the state or federal government implements it. If an HOA implements it, I don't see how that is 1984. If I turn my house into my own surveillance state, that's not 1984 either, that's me automating tedious things like looking out the window for suspicious characters or events.
    • bjelkeman-again 7y ago
      > only if government implements it I suspect that if a non-government implementation becomes widespread the authorities will require access. A bit like grabbing the feeds from Facebook etc.
    • SketchySeaBeast 7y ago
      There's good odds that the HOA won't home-grow this - I'm sure that if this product did exist, it'd either come from or end up being scooped up by one of the usual suspects of the information gathering and advertising age. I don't think that corporations helpfully defining what sort of crime was committed for the local HOA is any less dystopian, it just makes it potentially more subtle.
• Lucadg 7y ago
  > 1. Trinet for full-time remote/distributed workers Dao software such as Aragon and Daostack may be the ones which make this real. A lot of the complexity in running distributed teams is connected to the sorry state of international payments. A vast majority of the potential employees is simply not able to participate to the global economy today.
• arkanciscan 7y ago
  Hard Disagree on "subscription only" "network driven" security cameras. I have no interest in sharing when I come and go from my house with the entire world, let alone all the employees of a corporation like Amazon.
• reasonattlm 7y ago
  I can't say as I like his take on the longevity industry. It is the take that will produce few meaningful advances, the "looking under the lamp because that's where the light is" way of approaching life. Just more marginally better drugs that do a little bit more than those of 10 years ago. Sadly investors probably care very little from a financial position as to whether a drug works or not, as their exit usually happens somewhere between trials at Phase 1 and Phase 2. Earlier in the longevity market because it is hot. I've put together Request for Startup lists for the longevity industry for the past few years, based on fairly detailed insight into the state of the science. https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2019/02/request-for-startups-in-the-rejuvenation-biotechnology-space-2019-edition/ https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2019/02/request-for-star... https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2017/12/request-for-startups-in-the-rejuvenation-biotechnology-space-2018-edition/ https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2017/12/request-for-star... https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2016/12/request-for-startups-in-the-rejuvenation-biotechnology-space-2017-edition/ https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2016/12/request-for-star... Because things move slowly in biotech, just about everything in these documents except for more senolytics is still valid.
  • carapace 7y ago
    Dude, you are on it! Congratulations. (FWIW, I think that space colonization will only be practical if we develop either FTL or longevity (live to 1000+) and the latter seems way more doable than the former, eh?)
  • hobofan 7y ago
    Love your blog! Recently got interested in longevity research, as I was surprised how much closer to reality it is than I imagined, and also as a possible future industry to work in, and your blog has been one of the best resources to both get up to speed on the topic and also keep up to date! As you are as familiar as few people are with the topic, I'd like to ask you for some advice, if possible: What do you think is the best way for someone like me (currently biochem undergrad, with ~7 years broad software engineering experience), to have an impact in the field?
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• Lucadg 7y ago
  > What would be a network which allowed for more thoughtful discourse We used to have this and it was called forum (phpbb and such). They have been oblitared and we moved to Facebook apparently leaving our brains behind. In reality we are victims of armies of psychologists optimizing for engagement. I have the feeling forums will come back though.
  • mjpuser 7y ago
    I would say reddit is a forum, and you can have good discourse on there, but can also have straight comfort internet trash. Basically I think its more nuanced than just having a forum...
    • Lucadg 7y ago
      Reddit is probably the closest thing to a forum. I guess having a separate domain in a website owned by people rather than one run by a big company allows for a more intimate environment.
      • ACS_Solver 7y ago
        I don't really find reddit comparable to forums, mainly because reddit is also built around recent comments. It has very rudimentary search functionality, and the way submissions and comments are scored discourages long conversations. Unless you're on a really small subreddit, stuff falls off the first page quickly, and your comment will be far less visible if posted half a day later. This is completely different than forums, which optimize for conversations that last for several days to a couple of weeks, sometimes much longer.
        • Lucadg 7y ago
          Exactly. Forums optimize for quality content and this makes it hard to monetize them because when you found the good stuff you are not going to click on ads. Also, mobile which is not ideal for long conversations helped their demise. Still, I hope they come back big time. I miss them.
• wyxuan 7y ago
  Pollution tracking would be greatly appreciated. Maybe we could catch methane leaks faster, or respond more quickly to fires. Google backed firefly (the one that puts the billboards on top of lyfts and ubers) has air quality tracking; it needs more scaling.
• arkanciscan 7y ago
  I fail to see how TikTok is a "good reminder for the generational turnover of social products". Has an entire generation passed since Vine or Snapchat? If anything it's proof that securing an early lead in a new form of media (short form video in the aforementioned cases) doesn't guarantee success even for a generation. My takeaway is that young people are increasingly mercurial and disloyal. Chasing their attention seems like a recipe for disappointment.
  • cjsawyer 7y ago
    The lifecycle of a social media should be measured by some % of pairs of children and their parents both using it. It’s an instant buzzkill.
    • JohnFen 7y ago
      And businesses. This rule still holds true today. When I talk to people in their 20s and younger these days about Facebook, for instance, the near universal reaction is "Facebook is for old people and companies". They're all using something else.
  • asdff 7y ago
    Snapchat is still extremely popular among people my age (20s). Vine only died because it was killed off, the community was thriving. If anything, tiktok shows that it was a mistake to kill off vine; functionally it's the same sort of content.
    • majortennis 7y ago
      i'm in my 20s snapchat is dead
• jcadam 7y ago
  > 7. Software-only defense contractor. Yea, I keep thinking of doing this but there's so much red tape in starting a defense company, it's seriously daunting. I'm a software developer in the defense industry, btw. > ...be focused on a more SaaS-centric software-driven model... Actually, I think the time may finally be right for something like this in my industry.
  • spoon16 7y ago
    Checkout Rebellion Defense https://rebelliondefense.com/ https://rebelliondefense.com/
    • jcadam 7y ago
      Bah, of course someone is already trying it :)
  • brixon 7y ago
    Take more normal stuff that exists and host it in FedRAMP and DOD IL4+ environments. I work for a DOD contractor and we can only use a few SaaS solutions, most are not secure enough. We have to host most stuff in-house and it's becoming harder to find software that we can either host in-house or is of a security level approved by the gov.
    • imjha 7y ago
      We specialize in helping organizations seeking FedRAMP accreditation. https://stackarmor.com/solutions-2/devops/ https://stackarmor.com/solutions-2/devops/ Please reach out if interested.
• JohnFen 7y ago
  I wish there was a genuinely excellent, highly configurable, and privacy-supporting browser.
• ejz 7y ago
  Look at useparagon.com for #9
• simplify 7y ago
  For social networks, Manyverse is an interesting new player. It's p2p with no central server, and the app is open source. https://github.com/staltz/manyverse https://github.com/staltz/manyverse
• abinaya_rl 7y ago
  Regarding the remote work, companies have their own limitations like timezone requirements/tax complications in providing full-time jobs to the global workforce. We at Remote Leaf [1], helping people land remote jobs by curating the jobs that are relevant to them. We filter jobs based on the user's location and skills. [1] https://remoteleaf.com https://remoteleaf.com
• macspoofing 7y ago
  >Nuclear is a strong potential solution for climate change but is politically unpopular. Could something be done to address this No. There are no political champions for nuclear, and most environmentalists are actively hostile to it. And to be fair, starting reinvestment in nuclear infrastructure in light of how inexpensive natural gas is, would be expensive. Nuclear also doesn't play well with solar and wind, while natural gas is a perfect complement to renewables.
• vld 7y ago
  I'd love a service that puts me in touch (for a fee) with an engineer/someone above level 1-2 support from Google/Amazon/huge corps When dealing with companies that are above a certain size, it takes days or weeks to get to someone that can fix issues, but if you're lucky and you have a friend that knows someone who works there he can expedite your ticket. This service would work like that, a friend that puts you in touch with people hired at big corps. I'm aware this service would have a number of potential issues, such as how to get employees on the platform without annoying their employers, or how to prevent abuse/bribes, but if somebody find a way..
  • ddebernardy 7y ago
    If you're in the UK, there's at least one ISP that is XKCD compliant: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1f154z/til_theres_a_uk_internet_service_provider_that_is/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1f154z/til_t...
  • Taurenking 7y ago
    That seems like a nice idea to develop as a side hustle. Not sure if it would be so much of an issue, as websites like https://www.teamblind.com https://www.teamblind.com exist. I'm more worried about the user acquisition tbh
• weaksauce 7y ago
  > 5. Neighborhood (and corporate?) pollution sensor networks. purpleair seems to do much of this.
• jariel 7y ago
  #4 is disturbing. Humans in large swaths (most?) of the world live without stealing from one another. Safe communities are not built on policing and monitoring (or guns), they're built by people who have basic communitarian values, basic education, who are conscientious, honest etc.. Obviously, macro issues are important (jobs, economy, credible judicial/civic systems) and that's part of the equation. But none of this is new, it's downright ancient - and I'm wary to think of any technology that can be directly applicable. We have to raise our kids well, and there won't be any software to do that for us.
  • floatboth 7y ago
    Defense contractors and longevity are also disturbing. Rich pervert vibes. The latter always reminds me of Jeffrey Epstein wanting to cryo freeze his head and penis (LOL) and Larry Ellison's foundation dedicated to longevity — "namely, his": https://youtu.be/bNfAAQUQ_54?t=993 https://youtu.be/bNfAAQUQ_54?t=993
• floatingatoll 7y ago
  There's an unmet need in social networks for "identity verified and protected", wherein the social network proves to a reasonable^ degree of certainty that you are who you say you are, and then you are permitted to maintain an anonymous identity (which you may end and replace with a new one at any time). ^ Notarization, at $25/each, would be sufficient. Bank account verification and credit card verification would not be sufficient, nor would "upload a photo of your ID". There's no sidestepping the "human being evaluates your actual identity documents" stage.
• mintone 7y ago
  For #4 I have had good experiences thus far with Simpli Safe.
• otoburb 7y ago
  Eldertech ideas would be a welcome addition to this list. Gil might say that Eldertech is a specific vertical under the RPA/NoCode category, but I'd argue that it's a large enough market unto itself that will become more relevant after 1 or 2 generational shifts.
• thrwaway69 7y ago
  > The rise of machine learning and machine vision as analytical tools opens up the door for a new contractor to emerge to challenge incumbents, and also to provide new applications not available in the pre-ML world. Actually, I was thinking of building detection system for taking down protests. Currently, government has a need to identify muslims, illegal immigrants and violent college students. Looking at whatever video is there, it seems you can find them with 60-70% accuracy. For taking down protests, I figure something like automated human warnings or high intensity sound could work. It can generate list of people found and match them against existing database, give proximity of where they might live. Long term, you can track movements and other uniquely identifying data. All stored in cloud so for every camera you install, accuracy should improve. I wonder if some kind long range radar would be able to detect protestors like activities. For the attention economy, someone needs to build a prioritization system. Something that can jam all notifications and only allow higher priority ones to go through, scheduling, hiding things I probably don't care about. example - taking care of unread emails by building a sorted list of them and removing junk based on how you interact with top ones. > Digital neighborhood watch Could be useful for various purposes like keeping away people on restraining orders with facial recognition, it should notify police with proof or observing fires, violence, and keeping away certain people you don't want near you. Human sounding warnings will scare off a lot of low noisy actors. Edit: Surveillance state = bad. I get it. I am against it too but are you not minority when most of your country doesn't care? If there is a market need for a product, what do you use for determining whether it is correct or not. You can kill people with knives or ropes (more people killed than security cameras) but that doesn't make those two unethical or wrong to supply. You can defer to legality but that is not a good vector probably. Ethics are subjective and based more on intentions than other variables. Just a genuine question, what if you are minority in a democratic state? Should you have power to impose your will on others despite whatever they voted for? If someone is harassing me, I can legally remove him. Harassing someone is wrong but what if protests turn into harassment or destruction of your private property, should you use legal system to stop protests? Should you think about the whole country of billion when making a decision that is against you in terms of favorability? Is selling anything to state a crime now that they can use for violence or suppression of protestor? What makes detection systems so bad compared to other things people call 'ethical'?
• ckosidows 7y ago
  #2. I've had an idea I've mulled around for a couple of years now about a new social network. One which limits your 'feed' to 25 friends and that is it. 25 might even be too high (or potentially too low; the number is arbitrary), but the general idea is that in your life there are only a handful of people who you should really care to keep tabs on. You can "friend" more than 25 people but you can only see the activity of 25 of your friends and the others are relegated to essentially being contacts. I remember about two years ago Facebook was getting into a lot of trouble due to the amount of negative mental impact it had/has on its users and they did a study which found social media can have a negative impact on its users unless the user only follows a small circle of real-life friends and interacts with those people online. I don't have a source to this; I'm willing to accept there isn't real _evidence_ behind this claim. Anyway, I'm surprised social media has been around this long, has been the subject of such controversy and there haven't been any or many real, impactful changes to the nature of it. Facebook and Instagram are, in my opinion, trying to be too much. They want to combine personal and public spaces. This, of course, works from a business perspective. But what are the long-term consequences of these products on our mental health and society? We need a new social media focused on personal, tight-knit groups of people and interests. One that makes this the focus and doesn't stray for the purposes of profits. And, if that's not feasible in an economy that demands growth, we need better legislation demanding certain consumer protections are created for this sphere of products.
  • jbigelow76 7y ago
    One which limits your 'feed' to 25 friends and that is it. An ex-Googler (that never played defense![1]) tried that with the social network Path. I think the limit was 50 friends though. It failed. Edit: [1] Quote attribution: "I don’t use a ring of any kind on my phone. This is so that I am always on offense and never defense." - Dave Morin
    • freehunter 7y ago
      To be fair, almost every non-Facebook social network has failed. I wouldn’t consider that to be proof that a limited social network can’t succeed but rather that social networking sites are difficult to produce.
• MH15 7y ago
  >2. New social network This already exists, in the form of private group chats. I am part of a few GroupMe and Snapchat group chats that function similarly to how social networks "should". I have an idea in this space- I'd like to implement a new webview or theme for Twitter that shows the most recent posts last, similar to how a DM functions. Once you scroll to the bottom of the list, you are done. No new content. Could alleviate some of the addictive features of the current methods.
• joshpadnick 7y ago
  #1. Trinet for full-time remote/distributed workers. I've spent countless hours researching Global PEOs and reviewing their often poorly written contracts. If a reputable service existed that allowed us to hire in any country without having to form our own corporate entity in that country, we'd be ready to sign yesterday. Unfortunately, all existing services are either: * Too new (There are promising upstarts, but they usually don't operate their own entities and it seems risky to route all our IP ownership assignments through a tiny company) * Too expensive (massive markups on what should be a standardized service) * Too incompetent (One PEO sent us a contract for a Canadian employee that assigned their IP in accordance with US law. It's facepalm-bad sometimes).
  • Kiro 7y ago
    What does PEO mean and what existing services have you found?
    • joshpadnick 7y ago
      PEO stands for "Professional Employer Organization" and is an American term for a company that serves as the legal employer for the people you want to hire. For example, see https://justworks.com/ https://justworks.com/. When an employee joins our company, they legally become an employee of JustWorks, but we're the practical employers. It's purely a legal relationship. This is welcome the USA government because they know these companies help us achieve compliance better than we could on our own. JustWorks has been great, but only employs people in the USA. When we want to employ someone outside the USA, we therefore need to find a "global PEO." These companies are sometimes called "Employers of Record." Popular Global PEOs are: - Globalization Partners - Elements Global - Capital GES - Pilot.co - Lots more. But it's a highly fragmented market and has been a pain to engage.
• chrisbigelow 7y ago
  Not a pharmacological intervention, but I'm currently in the process of building out a newsletter for "longevity basics": https://pareto.substack.com/ https://pareto.substack.com/ I feel like too many people have gotten caught up in fringe science practices and "biohacking" the basic information that will keep us healthy and living long has been drowned out in the noise.
• bhl 7y ago
  #2. With Discord, I would love to have it move in the other direction, from being a game-centric network to more of interest-centric network. Parts of this already exist — there’s a way to search through open invite communities — but it’s not as explicit as I’d like: most of times to find a niche discord group, you first have to visit its respective subreddit and find the invite link beneath all the clutter. Sometimes, there isn’t even a direct subreddit: to find a summer intern group, I had to dig through numerous threads of r/cscq. The downside of this type of network is moderation: subreddits now can self moderate but with chat, it’s higher volume and no filter by upvoting enabled.
  • erichurkman 7y ago
    My challenge with Discord is that when you enter any established community, it's information overload. Established servers have a dozen or more channels, a slew of bot commands, sometimes mandatory rule review or approval requirements, and it can be hard to judge how healthy the community is.
  • modo_mario 7y ago
    I've wondered about this as well. Discord should realize it's main appeal is not hosting gaming communities. It's providing a good and very customisable textchat environment (way less limiting than let's say slack) with easy voip and that all across platforms (browser, desktop, mobile, etc) I'm curious how large of a share of the servers is in no direct way gaming related. As far as the rest goes I've wondered about as well. I'm part of a Discord that has no subreddit, yt or twitch channel is not a gaming community coming from some game or the like. It has a focus in that it's Eurocentric tho there's plenty of people on it from the US and the rest of the world but the only way it has survived for bout 2 years now is by being welcoming and a very broad catch all community with channels for cooking, politics, tech, memes, etc (https://euro-lounge.eu https://euro-lounge.eu) I've encountered other ones that survived but they tend to be part of some big crosslinking groups and seem void of community feel with a shitload of people 99% of which don't say anything. Meanwhile more interest-centric communities just die if they don't have an area like a subreddit to pull people from. I've encountered numerous disappointing graveyards like that.
• FailMore 7y ago
  I'm building two social networks and you are gonna L-O-V-E them. > Taaalk (originally launched in 2016) A place for online publicly available conversations. For example: i) How to play chess https://web.archive.org/web/20160427044603/http://taaalk.co/taaalk/chess/robert-heaton-josh-summers https://web.archive.org/web/20160427044603/http://taaalk.co/... ii) Value Investing https://web.archive.org/web/20160427023909/http://taaalk.co/taaalk/investing/value-investor-josh-summers https://web.archive.org/web/20160427023909/http://taaalk.co/... > Nerdverse.xyz A url only social network (a bit like HN, but with more content and discussions with people you know - you're only allowed to talk after you have been introduced to, and accepted by, the owner of the group). All chats are publicly available to read, but you can only participate after an introduction. Please signup to my beta list: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScnuDIskbCAabMtGHQd-K7rghfzSCjIbxp14Cf7_IcaTYYqFQ/viewform?usp=sf_link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScnuDIskbCAabMtGHQd... Thanks for reading
• rhacker 7y ago
  I feel like more and more of our life is what "product" we connect with and use. I kinda want to opt out.
• cottsak 7y ago
  > More RPA and NoCode. Noooooooo! sadface Interestingly, this kind of mess probably keeps ~50% of us programmers employed. So ... yeh.
• jmondi 7y ago
  Here is the archive.org link since it seems that the website has been hugged to death: https://web.archive.org/web/20200107003015/http://blog.eladgil.com/2020/01/products-i-wish-existed-2020-edition.html https://web.archive.org/web/20200107003015/http://blog.eladg...
• def8cefe 7y ago
  What does the author mean when he says 'black sun-like VR network'? Googled and couldn't figure it out. Hoping it's a reference to some good sci-fi I haven't read.
  • wisty 7y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaxxun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaxxun
  • risubramanian 7y ago
    Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• stretchwithme 7y ago
  I would like to see security get into guarding the entrances of convenience stores using AI. If someone could potentially robbing the store, wearing a mask or carrying a gun, why should the door remain unlocked? Lock it, alert a human at the company to review the situation and either open the door for them or call the police. Loop in the clerk if the network goes down. Also, along these lines, created an AI doorman for a building, with a similar review process. Have the residents also help with reviews if the network is done.
• rosybox 7y ago
  Products I wish existed: a cure for neurological disorders like ALS, MS, Parkinson's, huntington's disease, small and large fiber neuropathy. There's nothing. Absolutely nothing out there to help people survive these widespread diseases.
• cjwebb 7y ago
  It would be interesting to know which bits would be out-of-scope if we tried to build the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer right now. The nanobots binding to a single-child, definitely... and the audio dictation from real actors, probably. There's not too much of a stretch between the rest and reality. Is there?
• faeyanpiraat 7y ago
  I actually have the High Growth Handbook written by the author of this article, but had no time to start reading it. Does anyone here have an experience with it, is it worth picking up asap?
• jonesdaisy 7y ago
  https://genericbuddy.com/careprost-3ml-eye-drops https://genericbuddy.com/careprost-3ml-eye-drops
• tabtab 7y ago
  Products I wish existed: 1) Dynamic relational databases. They wouldn't be too different from existing RDBMS, unlike the "noSql" products, yet allow dynamism. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66385/dynamic-database-schema#46202802 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66385/dynamic-database-s... 2) A GUI-friendly and desktop-friendly http-based markup standard for "productivity" and CRUD applications. HTML/DOM/CSS/JS keeps sucking for that, after 2 decades of trying. Focus a standard on GUI's and only GUI's so that it's done right for once. Java applets & Flash failed because they got feature-happy, making them buggy and security risks. 3) A hybrid file system and database to serve as intranet CMS's. One should be able to put documents into a folder and have the folder automatically be displayed in a "nice" listing or menu of links (to view or open documents), along with folder tree navigation features. Additional attributes could allow finer control, such as document synopsis, author name or ID (cross-reference), and thumbnails or icons. As things are now, one is pretty much forced to use either a file system or a CMS for many intranet-ish things. Merge the concepts.
• biolurker1 7y ago
  I just love the Green Atomics rebranding idea
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