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Thank you for your comment. I was involved in a Business Process Modelling research and I am sure the SAP world models business processes pretty intricately.
by samsquire 3y ago
Thank you for your comment.
I was involved in a Business Process Modelling research and I am sure the SAP world models business processes pretty intricately.
I like your idea of modelling the "work" that needs to be done.
I think it's partly an allocation problem, farming has automated food production that we have a lot of people that need to cover their costs. Recruitment is expensive and tedious and there's a lot of unsolved problems there.
Internet advertisements guarantees attention to something for a cost, I am sure businesses would like to guarantee capital and runway.
I think your use of the word "wants" is the key word here. If pushed to it, people could probably try work out what they want and someone else could try fulfill what they truly want. Software requirements are not always great, but there is a want behind every product or marketplace.
Allocating resources to ideas seems to be something that could transform the world. Identifying the good, profitable ideas is the hard part.
One of my ideas is a "Want app" which is that I can insert a demand for a doctor in my local area, or want for a fast food restaurant in this area, or I want a job that uses X, Y, Z technologies.
One of my ideas is "wantsfiles" [1] which is a machine readable file you put at the root of your domain and and then people automatically match orders with you based on what you want, as a form of automated business. For example, you could put an order on your wantsfile that you will buy "milk" at this price or you want someone to host "mirror.tgz" for you and you'll give them $X a month for it. There is also the idea of a generic purpose "wants app" where you specify what you want. [2] I wrote about that idea here [3]. It's a machine automatable order matching system.
This problem is very important to me. I spend my time on programming language implementation technical projects but I am also thinking of an idea that shall make the world better for everyone and sharing it openly. If you want to talk about ideas, I'll listen.
[1]: https://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Wantsfiles#1598878006 https://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Wantsfiles#1598878006
[2]: https://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Wants_20app#1578226067 https://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Wants_20app#1578226067
[3]: https://github.com/samsquire/ideas2#5-open-demand-mapping-and-want-marketplaces https://github.com/samsquire/ideas2#5-open-demand-mapping-an...
- nradov 3y agoWe already have a shortage of physicians. Stating that there is market demand for another doctor in a particular area will accomplish nothing. This is not a free market where supply and prices can adjust to meet demand. If you actually want to do something productive in that field then find a way to fund more residency slots at teaching hospitals. Restauranteurs and franchisors are already quite sophisticated when it comes to location decisions and real estate operations. The notion that they are somehow unaware of latent demand for fast food in a particular area is quite naive. Milk buyers can already trade commodities futures to signal their willingness to buy at a particular price.
- samsquire 3y agoData is valuable. There is a market for the data of revealed demand Google searches, Google keywords, instagram tags, TikTok and web histories. If it could be used to actually give people what they want, wouldn't that guarantee revenue? (That's the goal of all my ideas) My idea regarding the milk was automatic fulfilment and automatability of it, not via a public commodities exchange for 100000 litres but through an app, that a regular person could use to automate their groceries. Uber, Uber Eats, Just Eat, Door Dash, Amazon are all separate incompatible applications. The idea is for people to register their wants and get what they want (through others deciding differently). Who doesn't want what they want?
- lotsofpulp 3y ago> Who doesn't want what they want? A more pertinent statement is: How can people afford to have what they want? Either people need to have more money, or costs need to come down. Generally, this comes from figuring out ways to do something that is already being done, but in a more efficient, cheaper way.
- FloorEgg 3y agoI have two complimentary prototype products with multiple customers paying for them. I'm just scouting out people who are passionate about this problem and who could be a good fit for when it scales.