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Human voice summary of news #news #voice

Wed, 03 Mar 2021 17:31:00 +0000

There are several news apps which offer automated summary of news, but they don't match the quality of human summarized content like InShorts in India. But they don't offer read aloud feature i.e. voice summary of the news.

I just want to click play and want to listen to the bite-sized news one by one instead of scrolling through them visually. I know that Google Assistant & other voice based assistants do offer news but they are usually auto-summarized web article or snippets from the TV news; both of them are not as good as the human summarized news content.

I would like a service which could convert these text based human summary of news to audio or a human voice summary of news itself.

5 points posted by Ashoka

Selectively disable YouTube live chat #youtube #chat

Wed, 03 Mar 2021 13:17:00 +0000

YouTube live chat on news channels are a cesspool, I'm afraid even to look at them and so the first thing I do when I visit a news channel is scroll down and click on 'HIDE CHAT'. Google doesn't allow to make this setting permanent and so I have to do this every single time.

It would be great to have a way to disable YouTube live chat selectively on different channels permanently.

1 points posted by Richard_Dune

Hand wash liquid which doesn't make the skin dry #skincare #hygiene

Sat, 27 Feb 2021 16:57:00 +0000

All these obsessive hand washes due to the pandemic has made my skin dry like never before. I tried different hand wash liquid soap including the expensive ones in vain.

Skin on my hands look wrinkled, old and sometime the dryness is causing some discomfort.

I've heard my friends complain of this too, Is there any solution for dry skin from hand wash? If not I think now is a great time to build a product which doesn't make the skin dry while washing hands.

6 points posted by Natasha Taylor

New skills from short projects for organizations #skills #education

Fri, 19 Feb 2021 09:01:00 +0000

Hi all, since some weeks ago I have been diving in a new industry and learning new skills/knowledge. I have been creating small projects to showcase these skills. In the near future I would like to create a startup in the industry I am diving into. Before doing that, it would be great to have experience with organizations where I could help with my new skills/knowledge. In my view this would be a win-win. I would get to gain experience and use my new skills (before getting paid gigs and to build a portfolio), while organizations can benefit from the help in an area where they lack experience or time for.

Think about it as a very short project based internship. For a day-week max. For example, a small organization who wants help with their website and could use even basic knowledge of web development. You as a starting web developer or student, could help for two days In which organizations can benefit from someone helping them with their social media usage or web development.

Do you know of such platform? I would definitely be interested in trying it.

4 points posted by Toufic_e

Reduce document file size to specific size #document #compression

Sat, 13 Feb 2021 07:35:00 +0000

Each website have their own maximum size limit for uploading .pdf, .jpg documents e.g. 100KB, 2MB etc. It takes a long time to reduce the size of the document to their size limit because the available tools compress the file size to an arbitrary size.

If the file is compressed to a size over that limit, the file cannot be uploaded and if the file is compressed to a size lesser than the limit it looses quality unnecessarily.

If the compression tool can take the size limit as input from the user and compress the file to that limit then this problem can be addressed.
3 points posted by justine

Fogging of glasses when wearing face mask #lifestyle #wellbeing

Fri, 05 Feb 2021 16:23:00 +0000

Those who wear spectacles have to put up with another drag when wearing masks - The fog which forms over the glasses with every breath.

I've tried different solutions from wipes, sprays to gels although only the gel seems to do something but I'm not keen on putting chemicals on glasses in proximity to the eyes.

How are you managing the fogging of glasses when wearing mask and what can be done about it.

2 points posted by Katy Jones

A Clubhouse for remote teams #remote #communication

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 03:29:00 +0000

We’ve been inspired by the growth of remote work, but at the same time, we’ve also seen teams struggling with lack of communication, delays in productivity, and isolation. We think that real-time connection without friction can help solve that problem.

Zoom fatigue is real. Video calls make everyone feel the way people on TV feel every slouchy, every mumble, every interruption is magnified. Drop-in audio talk lets remote teams spark a conversation with a single click.

1 points posted by Remote_

Simple chat room without subscription #chat #asynchronous

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 15:34:00 +0000

Okay, it's not a real big problem but sometimes I want to be able to chat with several people at the same time without creating a Discord or Slack group. I'd like to have something temporary, with a simple link. You can answer me Google meet, but I'm looking for something focused on chatting asynchronously. 1 points posted by Petillant

Proving computer hack #proof #cybersecurity

Fri, 29 Jan 2021 14:01:00 +0000

If a computer is hacked and fake incriminating evidence is placed by the attacker; The victim is left to the mercy of the investigating agencies to uncover the truth and for vindication.

We need a way to prove that our computer was hacked beyond any reasonable doubt as an user without dependence on forensic experts.

Just like how tamper evident labels on physical products tell us if someone has tampered with that product, I would like something for computers which definitely tells that it has been tampered(hacked) with and which can be used in the court of law.

3 points posted by Lisbeth

Easy way to record diet, lifestyle habits #notes #lifestyle

Mon, 25 Jan 2021 17:27:00 +0000

A way to record every diet we take its ingredients, water we drink and time we sleep. This seems to be quintessential for those suffering from Autoimmune Disease.

I feel it can help anyone lead a healthier lifestyle. Recording every diet in detail seems to be a harder problem to solve without manual input, as fitness trackers are capable of recording sleep automatically.

A note taking app built specifically for this purpose which allows manual entries, something which allows easy input by the user and capable of providing detailed summary to doctors if needed could fill-in this need gap until robust solution is found.

1 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Reduce time to diagnose Autoimmune Disease #medical #health

Mon, 25 Jan 2021 17:02:00 +0000

I recently had a conversation with someone who is suffering from Sjögren's syndrome a type of Autoimmune Disease, time to get diagnosed for this disease seems to be a big problem.

20-40 doctor visits for diagnosis seems to be very high for any medical condition, let alone for such debilitating condition.

I'm posting this problem, So others can share their experience and perhaps if there is a need gap we could come up with a solution.

2 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Make entry level webcam better #webcam #video

Sat, 16 Jan 2021 17:27:00 +0000

Now that many are working from home, webcams are of demand and often unavailable. Even when available, they are the same ones from a decade ago.

e.g. Logitech C270 debuted 10 years back, I even had one which I gave it to someone about 6 years ago as I didn't use it much at that time. Guess what, I had to buy the same webcam again now for 40 USD!

Which other tech from a decade ago are we still buying as it is? I can't believe entry level webcams hasn't gotten better when the phone cameras on even entry level smartphone gets better every 6 months.

What is happening with the webcams?

3 points posted by Zimochrome

Practical handoff between multiple platforms #interoperability #compatibility

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 11:17:00 +0000

I use mobile and desktop devices on multiple ecosystems, and I'm sure many use even more devices than I do, across an even greater number of dissimilar platforms in a modern world that is increasingly fragmented on those lines and where interoperability is frequently commoditised by the likes of Apple. Platform-agnostic solutions enabling convenient handoff (e.g. links, images) between devices on different platforms, in a way suited to each platform, is desperately needed. Also desirable would be configurability of rules, allowing for items to be handed off to other devices with processing rules on the terminus device.

2 points posted by cicero7

Receive WhatsApp messages without using WhatsApp #messaging #whatsapp

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 12:40:00 +0000

I am done with WhatsApp, but all my friends and family still use it as their primary app for communication.

I am looking for a way to receive WhatsApp messages on Signal or Telegram without using WhatsApp and it looks like there are several others on the same boat as me.

Is there something which solves this problem? Can something be built to solve this?

3 points posted by Apsara

Search existing library in address bar #search #browser

Wed, 06 Jan 2021 04:15:00 +0000

Many of us maintain our own library of content through several read-it-later apps like Pocket, Evernote, Instapaper etc. but forget what we saved, but we saved the content for a reason and would be great if we could retrieve the content when we need especially when searching in the browser.

Right now browsers display the content from our bookmarks, history when we start typing on the address bar. It would be even better if the browsers could also display content from our read-it-later library as we type on the browser address bar; It would save us lot of time by giving the content we already saved for a reason before instead of searching anew.

2 points posted by Purohit Jaikumar

Inexpensive, Accessible hardware security tokens #authentication #cybersecurity

Sun, 27 Dec 2020 06:54:00 +0000

There is a rush to replace SMS based OTPs in several markets with more secure and reliable alternatives for multi-factor authentication due to the growing prevalence of SIM swapping attacks and reliability issues concerning SMS.

When compared to other authentication options, FIDO based hardware security key/tokens have proven to be reliable and private mechanism for secure multi-factor authentication. But hardware security token's prohibitive costs and accessibility friction have prevented widespread adoption.

Although app based TOTP is still a better alternative than SMS for two-factor authentication, it is still susceptible to phishing attacks and faces reliability concerns due to latency and not as accessible as SMS, Although HOTP fixes the latency issues with TOTP it still falls behind the accessibility of SMS.

1 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Database of Bot IP addresses #cybersecurity #database

Thu, 24 Dec 2020 17:39:00 +0000

If you had run any web-service and checked the logs you would have found constant barrage of logs indicating bots scanning for vulnerabilities by trying to locate PHP, Wordpress, git credentials etc.

These are annoying, consumes resources at best case scenario to actually exploiting our web-service if any vulnerability is found.

I was wondering if there was a central database of these bot IP addresses contributed by public from their logs, we could block these bots from scanning our web servers.

1 points posted by Yogesh Basu

Upload local music and sync playlist #music #cloud

Mon, 21 Dec 2020 18:07:00 +0000

I had my entire local music library on Google Play Music and I enjoyed using it while it lasted. Now I don't want to face similar situation with another music service where I upload my local library, only to find the feature removed one day and to start searching for another service.

I would like a music service where I can upload my local music library, playlists to cloud and sync across devices; I want that service to do only this and not offer other online music subscriptions as then they will treat local music upload as secondary like how its happening with all major music service apps right now.

I heard from my friends and others in forums that they are willing to pay for such a service.

1 points posted by Trisha

Check email service status before sending emails #email #mailinglist

Wed, 16 Dec 2020 12:39:00 +0000

When an email bounces, it gets auto-unsubscribed in many mailing lists to protect the reputation of the sender or the mailer service but a working email id can still bounce if the email service provider is having a technical issue and in this case all email ids belonging to that particular email service provider in the mailing list could potentially be unsubscribed automatically.

This can lead to mass unsubscribes if a major email service provider goes down, resulting in unrecoverable cost to the current Newsletter Economy.

To prevent this the mailer service should check the service status of the email provider before mailing to the list.

I think there is a need gap for a service which keeps track of the service status of all email providers in realtime (i.e. not dependent upon user reports like downdetector) which can be used by the mailer services.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Archive entire website permanently online #archive #backup

Thu, 10 Dec 2020 13:26:00 +0000

I have several side projects and each time I shutdown a project I have to archive each and every web page of my project website individually at Wayback Machine as the ability to archive entire website seems to be available only for large organizations through their Archive-It program.

I feel there is a need gap for a service to save entire websites permanently on the Internet available to small website owners as well.

2 points posted by Vessat

Social media for uncompressed photos and videos #socialmedia #photo

Mon, 07 Dec 2020 13:25:00 +0000

MKBHD a smartphone YouTuber recently published the annual The Blind Camera Test and as usual an unexpected contender wins the test like previous years. It largely comes down to image compression by the social media platforms.

I was wondering when many including myself are spending lot of money in buying a smartphone for its camera to post good quality photographs to social media, social media platform's compression defeats that purpose.

I understand that compression reduces Internet data consumption, but high speed Internet with unlimited data caps is not an issue where I live and others who are in similar circumstance might prefer a social media where photos and videos are not compressed.

1 points posted by Bakshara

Daily activities to live a healthy lifestyle #fitness #health

Sun, 06 Dec 2020 16:16:00 +0000

auto-pilot my fitness/health/recovery/lifestyle - programs like Precision Nutrition, Whoop, Wodup (hundreds of others) all have specific purposes but I have to add and join each one, setup and follow specifics. I would to subscribe to a stream instead of adding daily events/habits to a calendar - can I just join a coach who automates my health portion of my life. I just read it and do what it says and I should see results, hold me accountable. 3 points posted by Chad

A/B test social media posts without posting #socialmedia #testing

Wed, 02 Dec 2020 12:55:00 +0000

Everyone prefers to get more likes and shares for their social media posts but none more so than social media managers as we are paid to ensure that. But as the algorithms, people's preferences keep changing it's hard even for experienced social media managers to come up with best social media copy.

There are tools which provides analytics to do A/B testing on social media but all of them require the post/tweet to be published and are time consuming.

If there is a tool/service which allows A/B testing of social media posts without publishing by using historical and current data then it can make lives of social media managers easy.

3 points posted by Ezekiel

Inexpensive secure home network routers #computernetwork #Internet

Thu, 26 Nov 2020 06:18:00 +0000

Inexpensive home routers available on Amazon, Walmart, eBay are riddled with security vulnerabilities which allows a remote attacker to take control over the device and get inside our home network.

People buy these routers because they are inexpensive and very easy to setup but has to pay much more once hacked. Secure home routers from reputed brands which receive regular updates are expensive or DIY home routers are hard to setup for an average person.

There is a need gap for inexpensive secure home network routers which are easy to setup.

3 points posted by Trevor Richmond

Cold chain systems to distribute COVID vaccine #logistics #supplychain

Thu, 19 Nov 2020 14:06:00 +0000

As the vaccine for COVID-19 is on the horizon, world over nations are scrambling to upgrade their cold chain - logistics and supply chain to deliver the vaccine to their citizens when made available.

Vaccines generally require very cold temperatures for storage during distribution. Although several countries already have national vaccination program with cold chain infrastructure, COVID-19 vaccines announced so far have very stringent cold storage requirement of -20˚C to -80˚C making it difficult for distribution even for those countries.

Furthermore, these vaccines consists of multiple doses, so theoretically we are looking at last mile delivery of about at-least 15 Billion vaccines doses for a two dose COVID-19 vaccine.

This raises large need gap in several sectors where startups can participate directly or indirectly namely,

Vaccine Manufacturing (Optimization).
Fridge, Freezers (Storage).
Insulation materials (Temperature control).
Transportation (Air/Land).
Reliable temperature monitoring (IoT).
Inventory management, Distribution management (Cloud software, Database systems)
Post-Vaccine large scale health symptoms monitoring(Cloud software, IoT, Mobile apps, Encryption).
Strengthening telecommunication systems to handle the network pressure (Computer Networking, Cyber Security).

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Self reporting symptoms of long COVID #health #COVID

Mon, 16 Nov 2020 04:20:00 +0000

While second/third wave of COVID-19 has started to take its toll globally, horrors of long term symptoms from original COVID-19 survivors are coming to light.

Symptoms ranging from breathlessness, fatigue to damage in brain tissue from MRI scans have been reported by several COVID survivors including those who were asymptomatic initially and those who survived COVID without any hassle.

Since long term effects of COVID are just starting to being explored by researchers, medical practitioners are under-equipped with data to help their patients reporting symptoms of their long COVID. Self help online forums are reportedly playing a huge role for these COVID survivors to discuss about their persisting symptoms.

A dedicated platform to self report long-term COVID symptoms with provisions to intuitively collect scientific data would be invaluable to researchers and scientists around the world.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Teach me vocabulary without spending extra time #language #education

Fri, 13 Nov 2020 17:37:00 +0000

I'm trying to improve my vocabulary to sound sophisticated when I speak and write emails. There are several tools which helps me to learn a new word every day, but since it's out of context I usually forget most of them.

I was wondering that it would be nice if I can learn better vocabulary while doing routine tasks like browsing the web, but most of the web articles use dumbed-down vocabulary for the benefit of general audience and so I'm not learning any new words.

Have any of you faced this situation? How can this be solved?

3 points posted by Jonas

Tell me when I'm out of Twitter Jail #twitter #marketing

Mon, 09 Nov 2020 12:37:00 +0000

I'm a social media manager and marketer so tweeting on behalf of my clients is part of my daily routine. But there's a problem especially for new accounts, if a new twitter account like/retweet/reply to a famous account then it's an immediate recipe for a shadow ban or Twitter Jail even if the purpose was completely innocuous.

Often, even tweeting the product/company url twice in a day can get one into trouble as Twitter's algorithms are very stringent towards new accounts without enough followers. This leads to the disappointment of my clients, who come to me when they release a product or launch their company and obviously the account I create for them would be new and likelihood of going to Twitter jail is very high.

Fortunately, Twitter releases you from the jail if the infraction isn't severe but there's no way to know when that will happen. It has taken couple of hours, couple of weeks or even never in my experience. There are services like shadowban.eu which provide details about your Twitter Jail sentence but currently there's no way to know when you are out of the jail unless you manually check regularly.

4 points posted by Ezekiel

Find made in India products on ecommerce sites #India #ecommerce

Sun, 25 Oct 2020 18:54:00 +0000

I would like to support Indian manufacturers and small industries in India. So, I deliberately buy India manufactured products on ecommerce sites like Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal, Paytm Mall etc.

But finding India manufactured products on ecommerce sites in India is not a straightforward affair, I need to dig around the manufacturer to find the country of origin. Luckily, the government ordered these ecommerce sites to display the 'Country of Origin' for all items. Which they are slowly complying to, but now I have to search for Country of Origin : India in the product description of every item I'm interested in manually as these ecommerce sites do not display it at a prominent location.

I would like to find an easier way to find products with Country of Origin : India on these ecommerce sites and I have seen several others expressing similar views.

1 points posted by Rahman

Open collection of learning resources by topics #learning #education

Fri, 23 Oct 2020 20:39:00 +0000

I often want to learn about some topic, from very broad (like "C# programming") to very specific (like "Source Generators in C#"). There are lots of resources about any topic (blog posts, articles, videos, courses, books, etc.) and some are good, some bad. On Google, you get results sorted by some algorithm and they may not necessary be the best for learning or suitable for your level of knowledge (e.g., beginner/advanced). Search results are just not very well curated.

I imagine there should be a site where anyone could register links to such learning resources, organize them by topics and rate them, so the best resources for the topic are selected by the community.

I know that for programming topics, there are pages on GitHub like Awesome .NET or Awesome Flutter where people create curated lists of resources about some programming language. However, I believe this should be more unified and accessible also to other areas than programming. It should be similarly open for contributions like GitHub Pull Requests but not so complex.

1 points posted by janjones

Share YouTube subscribed channel list #youtube #sharing

Fri, 23 Oct 2020 12:47:00 +0000

Recently I got bored of the content from my subscribed channels on the YouTube and I asked my friends to share their subscription list only to find out that there's no such option to share YouTube subscription list.

It seems earlier there used to be an export option and third party service which allowed importing subscription list into another Google account, but not anymore.

There are others asking for the same in the YouTube community forum without any solutions. I think a tool which allows easy sharing and exporting of YouTube subscription list could be appreciated by these people and me!

5 points posted by Devin

Remember stuff using a song played at that time #music #memory

Mon, 19 Oct 2020 13:48:00 +0000

I am sure many of us remember the events which occurred when listening to the same song which we were listening to when those events occurred.

I happen to remember the things vividly when I play a song i.e. things which occurred earlier when I was listening to the same song several years ago. This happens usually with my favourite songs.

I don't know how this works, but I would like to know whether some form of technique can be developed to remember any stuff using songs or music.

Do you remember past events when listening to a song?

3 points posted by Tracy Devin

Amazon for local retail #retail #ecommerce

Thu, 08 Oct 2020 06:52:00 +0000

I'm imagining a platform for local retailers where customers can search for products in a similar way they do on Amazon and see where those products are available in their neighborhood.

They can then reserve or pay directly and pick them up later or get them delivered to whereever they want.

I know some retailers offer to check store availibility on their website but this quickly turns into a comparison across mulitple websites and then you still have only some of the potential results.

2 points posted by crispin

Domain price estimate based on current events #domain #worldevents

Mon, 05 Oct 2020 13:31:00 +0000

I invest in domains, so buying domain names which grow in value matters to me. But, none of the current domain appraisals take current world events into account when estimating the value of a domain.

Anyone can tell, covid19.com must be valued in thousands of dollars where as it is estimated to be worth about $100, similarly trumpbidendebate.com is appraised to be about $229 and trumpcovid.com is $500 (All at the time of writing).

This is because, current domain value estimates are based upon TLD, age, keywords, search volume for the keyword, advertising competition, comparable sales but are not updated in real time based on latest world events.

I would like domain appraisal based upon current world events and alerts for such high value domains.

4 points posted by Natalie

Weekly review of high profile startup lawsuits #newsletter #legal

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 13:21:00 +0000

I would like weekly updates on high profile startup legal cases and it seems there are others who would like it too.

It's getting hard to track who is suing who, updates on countersuits and legal settlements as lawsuits have become part of the business strategy.

I feel a weekly email news letter would be an appropriate medium for delivering weekly review of high profile startup lawsuits.

3 points posted by Shinzo Reyen

Get me the news I need, not the news I want #news #information

Thu, 17 Sep 2020 13:21:00 +0000

I'm tired of the hate mongering, cognitive bias rich, mindless advertisement fuelled News media be it on Internet or Television or Radio or even traditional Paper medium.

When I say Internet, I don't mean just the websites, but also mobile Apps with infinite scroll which has put pressure on the News Agencies to produce content at a blistering rate, resulting in low quality content without any editorial oversight or fact checking or even proofreading.

I'm tired of these News medium exploiting my FOMO, I'm convinced that 99.9% of the news I consume every day has just information I don't need, Information I will never use in my life, at least in the foreseeable future. This is after choosing the categories of interest, giving personal information about myself than I should have to the large media companies and thereby advertisers.

I'm convinced that these News media are trying make me someone they want to be, rather than give me what I need.

What does it take to get only the News I need, which will be actually useful for my life?

5 points posted by Andora

Make me breathe properly #health #respiration

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 14:02:00 +0000

80% of the population has some form of disfunction in breathing, 50% of modern population chronically breathe through their mouth, says James Nestor.

It seems that the correct way to breathe is 5 - 6 breaths/minute and breathing correctly has huge therapeutic benefits such helping with reducing symptoms of allergies, asthma, autoimmune disease, anxiety, depression and in some cases even curing them.

What can help me develop this correct way of breathing as a habit, without investing too much time or money?

5 points posted by Michelle

An off-screen alternative to digital quiz #education #kids

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 03:34:00 +0000

Many kids are being exposed to screen more than the daily ideal limit due to being required to finish their homework and submissions. A service that can generate offline printable playful quiz/homework forms for google classroom and other services might be useful. You print it, give it your kids for filling and then you scan/capture it to submit it back. 2 points posted by John_Doe

SLA for side projects and solopreneurs #agreement #sideproject

Mon, 31 Aug 2020 16:36:00 +0000

B2B side projects, solopreneurs who build products and services for businesses suffer from chicken-and-egg problem of not being able to provide guarantees on the availability of a service as there are not enough customers; Meanwhile business customers refrain from engaging with side projects and solopreneurs as they might cease to exist abruptly.

e.g. Check this service which creates social images for websites and articles with just the URL. This solves an important problem of having to create social images manually for every blog post of a business website. But if this services goes down, so does all the social images.

We need to find a solution to offer Service Level Agreements to business customers by solopreneurs and side project creators without compromising any side.

1 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Offline programming course for prisoners #education #prison

Thu, 27 Aug 2020 17:48:00 +0000

I have a friend in prison to whom I am sending educational materials, I figured that learning programming could be very useful and so I searched for materials which could teach prominent programming languages without access to a computer but couldn't find anything noteworthy.

I understand that a programming language doesn't make much sense without access to a computer, but decades earlier when there were limited access to the computers people still learnt programming through books.

There is a very high population of incarcerated people in my country, I think an offline equivalent of MOOC for programming via paper medium would be very useful to the inmates anywhere in the world.

I saw other remote education related problems on this platform and So, I was motivated to post this. 3 points posted by Jonas

Display musical instruments used in a song #visualization #music

Mon, 24 Aug 2020 13:03:00 +0000

I like to visualise different musical instruments used in a song like Keyboard(Piano), Guitar, Drum, Violin, Saxophone, Flute etc. in my mind when I listen to the music. If you are like me, wouldn't it be nice to have the instruments displayed on the music app itself?

Ideally, The space beneath the progress bar as the song plays could be a great place for the visualisations of the musical instruments and could be disabled if not needed like how Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music do it for the lyrics.

That's all, let me know if you would like to have that feature in the music apps and let's get them working on it!

3 points posted by Trisha

Monthly payment - Freelancer App #freelancer #flatfee

Sat, 22 Aug 2020 18:48:00 +0000

Covid 19 has caused a lot of unemployment worldwide.

Although there are many freelancer apps out there, most of them operate based on a commission model system. By charging many poor freelancers for every single work/project they do on those platforms.

If Netflix has been so successful, by delivering extensive and diverse content, a freelancer app might succeed as well. Using similarly the same business model.

On this app: Freelancers pay a monthly fee and they can generate as much work as they can, without being ripped off on every single job they do by those bloody commissions.

I will like to see some thoughts on the matter. Thanks !

1 points posted by [email protected]

Remote education for underprivileged #education #poverty

Mon, 17 Aug 2020 13:54:00 +0000

COVID-19 pandemic has put the world into lockdown and the children are forced to get their education through Internet - especially via video conferencing often using smartphones, radio, television and texting.

Unfortunately, even feature phones let alone smartphones are beyond the reach of many, resulting in the lack of means to get educated in the marginalised communities where education is the only way for the next generation to escape the poverty. There are several reports of children committing suicide after being distraught from not being able to afford a smartphone[1][2][3].

Pew Research centre's 2019 report says,

Across the 11 emerging economies surveyed as part of this report, up to one-in-five people do not own or even share a mobile phone.

Lack of smartphone or other electronic device is not the only problem, lack of proper electricity, cellular and Internet connectivity inhibits the underprivileged from receiving remote education.

What we can we come up with under such conditions to deliver remote education to the underprivileged? Note that several governments are trying to crack this problem as well, so any solution to fill this need gap could be a viable international social good startup idea.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Simple Video editor for beginner youtubers #video #editing

Wed, 12 Aug 2020 21:46:00 +0000

We all know video editing is hard. After talking to some people, in order to create a 4-5 minute high quality video can take 4-7 hours. Which discourages a lot of people.

I want to cut down that time ten-fold.

In other words, create a video editor that will help you all the way throughout your editing workflow - save time, create HQ videos, see your subscriber count grow.

3 points posted by studiocinematic

Which platform streams my fav show or movie? #streaming #movies

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 05:52:00 +0000

It is not easy for consumers to know which movie/show is streamed by which platform (such as NetFlix or PrimeVideo). This service maintains the list of movies & shows with their platforms for easy search. For this to work, Currently, each platform lists its contents in a searchable manner, whether it is original content or third party. But if a consumer wants to locate which platform has a particular show or movie, there is no easy way (but for a generic search). This service can either do a back-to-back search on multiple platforms, parse the returned value, merge multiple responses and present to the user. Alternatively, it can maintain a local cache/catalogue.
1 points posted by sierra1bravo

Health insurance for sick and disabled #insurance #disability

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 05:02:00 +0000

I recently learnt that the top health insurers in my country are denying policy for the sick and disabled; putting the lives of sick and disabled at risk during COVID-19 pandemic.

As an entrepreneur I understand the risk faced by insurers, but then again such risk is part and parcel of their business model. But, denying someone a policy since they have X disease when they could offer them a coverage for rest of the ailments with a waiting period for coverage of X disease is not keeping up with the progress of medical science; especially when the Govt. guidelines suggests you to do the same.

Hence, there is a need gap for an insurer who cares about sick, disabled and has ethical policies which are developed in parallel to the progress in medical science.

Do you know such insurer, have opinions about how such insurer should be or want to build one yourself? I understand that the subject of health insurance differs widely according to the country and their health policy.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

On-demand Hacker News notification #hackernews #notification

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 13:46:00 +0000

Every now and then a service announcing notification for Hacker News pops up which takes in email id, username and send email for HN replies. Then there are browser add-ons which send notifications when there are new comments to subscribed HN threads.

But, as far as I have searched there is no service which allows me to subscribe to specific threads and comments for notifications without having to give in my email id.

I think there would be takers for such a service, including myself as HN crowd are generally averse to mandatory email id and many would like to follow interesting threads, comments including ones which they have replied to. 4 points posted by Shinzo Reyen

Capturing good photos from any phone #photography #phone

Thu, 23 Jul 2020 13:23:00 +0000

I don't take pictures to post to social networks often, so I run my phone until software updates are available, as cameras are usually the only distinguishing feature even among flagships.

But, when I do take a photograph (usually insects, birds and animals) I would like the picture to be good. But, it is rarely the case as only few smartphone manufacturers have got the knack of capturing good photographs even though the hardware (sensor, lens, processor) are the same.

Their secret sauce lies in the machine learning powered image processing software, as spectacularly demonstrated by Google with their pixel lineup of phones and few other manufacturers.

So why not take that software to the cloud and let anyone get good quality photographs from any mobile? All current smartphones can capture images in RAW format, with better Internet bandwidth on the phone, a RAW format image can be uploaded to the cloud for ML - image processing while a lower quality JPEG can be displayed on the phone. Once processed, higher quality pictures can be shared to the social network or downloaded.

I think a phone camera app with this service can fill a large need gap of getting good photos on any phone. 3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

YouTube like public chat for ecommerce websites #chat #eCommerce

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 13:21:00 +0000

I like how public chats on YouTube, Twitch can be used to discuss about the content with several others. When I buy something online, I wonder why there is no public chat facility on these websites and only person I could chat with about the product is the store employee or a bot.

When I buy something online, I search for reviews, competitive products and possibly lower price elsewhere; it would be nice if there was a public chat on Amazon or other ecommerce sites where I can discuss with other buyers directly instead of unreliable and often fake reviews on the ecommerce websites. 4 points posted by Natasha Taylor

Show me my bank's hidden charges #banking #charges

Mon, 13 Jul 2020 12:01:00 +0000

My bank is putting a ton load of hidden charges on my account for transactions, services I never use and what not. It's a chore to find these charges from the bank statement (which we rarely do) and even if we find it there is little we could do about it.

Talking to my friends, it seems almost every major bank does this and it is a problem for many.

I would like a solution where my bank's hidden charges are clearly showcased to me and helps me reduce those charges.

3 points posted by Benny