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Business idea: Allergen Aerator Generate a miasma of benign pestilence in your child's crib, mimicking the protective inoculations provided by early exposure t
by aerostable_slug 1y ago
Business idea: Allergen Aerator
Generate a miasma of benign pestilence in your child's crib, mimicking the protective inoculations provided by early exposure to peanuts and other potential allergens, "farm" air, and the like. It could be packaged with Flonase for sneezing parents and an 'essential oils' scent dispenser to cover the barnyard smell.
Use AI to tailor the precise blend of aerosolized rodent feces and tree nut dust to optimize your child's immune system, and et voila: funding!
- johnea 1y agoOr, of course, people could just go outside, with and/or without their babies 8-/
- hangonhn 1y agoFor food allergies, they already make powders that contains various different allergens that you can expose your kid to starting at a certain age. And like sibling comment said, you can just also just take them outside and let them be kind of outdoorsy.
- ErikCorry 1y agoMiasma is a very bad idea because https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45647737 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45647737
- alex_c 1y agoDisappointed this link has nothing to do with Dwarf Fortress.
- boredgargoyle 1y agoI heard Toady One will be implementing the allergy mechanics soon (time being relative)
- woah 1y agoJust get an overly affectionate dog that gets into the garbage from time to time
- mauzy 1y agoBizarre that this is the top comment as this would drastically increase the frequency of peanut allergies and, more than likely, end in multiple deaths. Research strongly suggests that the key is that the child eats peanuts before being exposed via other vectors (skin/lung) to avoid allergic reactions. Arisolizing the relevant proteins around infants is essentially fast tracking allergic reactions.
- 4gotunameagain 1y agoIt is not bizarre, this place is like reddit or the news. Things seem plausible, until once in a while the discussion is something in your area of expertise, then you realise how full of shit everyone is. At least here we have some exceptions, with some deeply knowledgeable people. But to offset that we have software "engineer" hubris.
- bodiekane 1y agoI smirked at the parent comment, and it didn't even slightly occur to me that someone might interpret its intent as serious and literal until I saw your comment.
- michaelt 1y agoIn my experience HNers are extremely credulous. As far as I can tell, there's no level of satire so heavy-handed and unsubtle that it won't get a reply taking it seriously. If anything, the more obviously ridiculous your suggestion, the more urgently HNers want to disagree.
- alliao 1y agojust buy some asian snacks... i've never seen an asian kid allergic to peanuts, when we first heard peanut allergy thought it was a skit
- croes 1y agoSurvivorship bias?
- evanjrowley 1y agoAKA evolution
- croes 1y agoNot necessarily. How high is child mortality compared to the US?
- viraptor 1y agoThey trade it for 5% infants with egg allergy https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pai.14211 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pai.14211
- alliao 1y agofascinating findings between ultra processed food consumption.. Figure 1 is insane!
- IncreasePosts 1y agoOr Israeli: Israel presents a unique experiment because you have people from different genetic populations from different parts of the world collecting in Israel(eg Sephardic jews from Spain, Ashkenazi from central Europe, Mizrahi from Asia, etc). Something interesting is that peanut allergies in Israel are far lower than for Jews living in Spain, central europe, etc... One of the most popular snacks in Israel? Bambas - peanut butter puffs.
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- sfgunn 1y agoCompeting with a $2 bag of Planter's? Not so crazy if you corner the market. Now that's SaaSing baby!
- politelemon 1y agoThis is needs consumer staying power in order to secure the funding. I recommend selling the blends in DRM locked plastic pods and have the device only be operable from a mobile app. The mobile app's purpose would be to gamify the aerosol dispensation by grading it on timeliness, targeted direction and force of the spray, as well as streaks that get posted to social media for a sense of foamo.
- ThePowerOfFuet 1y ago>and et voila et = and, so just _et voilà_.