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There's money to be made of course. Tech could be used to help with home defense first, then neighborhoods, then could be scaled from there. If you actually ha

by fjabre 5y ago

There's money to be made of course. Tech could be used to help with home defense first, then neighborhoods, then could be scaled from there. If you actually had a solution in hand for even small scale fires that was effective and could scale you easily make this profitable. I'd be the first customer. I live in a fire prone area. Fear sells.

dylan604 5y ago
That's great that you've identified the very obvious service, but you've failed to identify the source of income. Who's going to pay for this service? Insurance companies? Bwahahahahah. Not a chance. Individual homeowners? They don't even pay for insurance. Renters? Nope. What about commercial? Those are also all renters, so why would they pay for something when they could piggyback off of any of the other tennants paying for the service? Landlords? Hell, they won't pay to for the most basic of service unless forced. So you're panacea of if they build it, they will come isn't as realistic as you are hoping. Edit: Also, you'd better have one hell of a legal team to draft up some BS ToS to protect from when ultimately your firefighting efforts fail. One lost property, and your valuation drops to 0.
- fjabre 5y ago
  Amazon and SpaceX were not profitable when started and remained unprofitable for many years. Our collective heart is in the right place. I have my own plans to do something about it but I am not in the same position as say Elon Musk for example. Not yet anyway ;) I am in tech however. And I believe passionately that tech can solve this problem. Even if it is just a symptom of global climate change. I think we must start solving these problems fast and with novel approaches. The same old tired routine isn't working. We've kicked the can enough down the road with government and fire prevention. New ideas and methods are needed and needed fast.
pixl97 5y ago
Everything that needs to be done can be mostly be done cheap and now... And people don't do it. We've had very good idea of how houses burn for 30+ years and we keep designing things that are built to burn. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-to-burn/ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-to-burn/

by fjabre 5y ago

dylan604 5y ago

That's great that you've identified the very obvious service, but you've failed to identify the source of income. Who's going to pay for this service? Insurance companies? Bwahahahahah. Not a chance. Individual homeowners? They don't even pay for insurance. Renters? Nope. What about commercial? Those are also all renters, so why would they pay for something when they could piggyback off of any of the other tennants paying for the service? Landlords? Hell, they won't pay to for the most basic of service unless forced. So you're panacea of if they build it, they will come isn't as realistic as you are hoping. Edit: Also, you'd better have one hell of a legal team to draft up some BS ToS to protect from when ultimately your firefighting efforts fail. One lost property, and your valuation drops to 0.

fjabre 5y ago
Amazon and SpaceX were not profitable when started and remained unprofitable for many years. Our collective heart is in the right place. I have my own plans to do something about it but I am not in the same position as say Elon Musk for example. Not yet anyway ;) I am in tech however. And I believe passionately that tech can solve this problem. Even if it is just a symptom of global climate change. I think we must start solving these problems fast and with novel approaches. The same old tired routine isn't working. We've kicked the can enough down the road with government and fire prevention. New ideas and methods are needed and needed fast.

pixl97 5y ago

Everything that needs to be done can be mostly be done cheap and now... And people don't do it. We've had very good idea of how houses burn for 30+ years and we keep designing things that are built to burn. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-to-burn/ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-to-burn/