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Topic classification of Hacker News stories #hackernews #classification

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 13:20:00 +0000

Topic classification is one of the most requested features of Hacker News, which is understandable as stories from wide range of categories are submitted on Hacker News and Users with different interests consume content from HN.

Classification of topics can help with filtering the content we are interested in and for bookmarking purposes.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Small business's dependency on eCommerce giants #eCommerce #SelfReliance

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 05:10:00 +0000

Small businesses sell their product on large eCommerce websites for their discovery and ease of use but are subject to their monopolistic behavior and loose out when the algorithms of the giants decide that their product is not good enough for their profit margin.

The solution for this has been for the businesses to have their eCommerce platform and there have been plenty of hosted or self-hosted tools to enable that.

Yet vast majority of small business are yet to venture into having their own eCommerce platform for various reasons such as,

Awareness: Many just don't know that they can have their own eCommerce platform where they have better control over their sales.
Discovery: They feel their product wouldn't be discovered on their own platform and they could be right. So discovery for products from small business needs to be addressed.
Setup & Maintenance: Although the barriers to setup eCommerce platforms have come down drastically, It's still not accessible to someone who's not technically inclined. So they are forced to spend money on companies which would do it for them and often lock them to sub-par proprietary software and expensive life-long maintenance fees.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Find statistical data quickly for writing blog #statistics #writing

Sat, 11 Sep 2021 16:58:00 +0000

I'm a freelance writer for several different clients. They all want me to add statistical data to my blog posts.

But it takes forever to find accurate ones that aren't from like 2002. I'm looking for a tool to help me quickly find statistical data for the content without wasting so much time.

The ideal tool would be a list of relevant stats and low-cost for my freelance budget.

HELP!!!!

3 points posted by bettyann7088

Investment in the startups by solo founders #investment #business

Thu, 09 Sep 2021 06:27:00 +0000

Retail investment in the startups by solo founders has several problems faced by both the founder and the investor.

Bus factor: /problems/294 .
Lack of standardized term sheets for solopreneur startups: Current standardized term sheets are made for startups with co-founder(s) and large teams.
Investment regulations: Regulations to invest in a startup varies according to the jurisdictions and are often made with large typical startups in mind.
Uncertainty over the scalability of the B2B startups run by solo founders: Lack of service level agreements ( /problems/153 ) make large businesses hesitant to employ services of smaller startups run by solopreneurs.
No investment train when investing in solopreneurs: Typical startups benefit from the investors trying to catch the investment train i.e. When a large name brand investment house invests in a startup, Every other investor tries to invest in that startup due to herd behavior. When unknown individual investors invest in solopreneurs, There's no such investment train to catch.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Very high bus factor among solo founders #riskassesment #business

Thu, 09 Sep 2021 05:23:00 +0000

The "bus factor" is the minimum number of team members that have to suddenly disappear from a project before the project stalls due to lack of knowledgeable or competent personnel. -Wikipedia.

The bus factor is very high among solo founders, solopreneurs and indie hackers because they are often the only person working on the product and when they're unable to continue working due to any number of reasons the product is immediately dead. Investors rarely invest in the startups of solo founders due to this.

Even typical startups run by solo founders with employees, investors are always at the risk of high bus factor because they're often the sole decision maker of the startup, leading to various problems ( /problems/27 ) if they're suddenly incapacitated.

Straightforward solution to reduce the bus factor is to get co-founders(s), qualified team and hedge the risks. But being a solo founder has its benefits and there's need-gap in solutions to reduce the impact of high bus factor among those who have decided to be a solo founder.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

I don't read my articles from the read later app #reading #productivity

Wed, 08 Sep 2021 02:24:00 +0000

Some pain points:

Lack of dark patterns/workflow that motivates you to go through lists
Lack of visualisation of your progress and to be covered lists. Also once Peter Drucker noted you can't manage what you can't measure, so there's that.
Lack of features such as queues and intelligent sorting based on params like the time needed (smartly learned by your reading speeds), etc. Queues and lists as in music and podcast players
Lack of smart organisational ability and proper search implementation thus resulting in friction of finding the content in future. Bookmarking services don't help because even then you have to think and dig deep in the mess of tags and folders.
Inconsistencies in parsing articles and content

3 points posted by shermix

Alert the presense of powerful magnets nearby #health #notification

Mon, 06 Sep 2021 14:00:00 +0000

British Heart Rhythm Society has recently warned that the magnet in iPhone 12 series can suspend the Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator(ICD) a life saving implant used by patients with high risk cardiac conditions.

With growing number of electronic appliances using powerful magnets in our daily life a real-time alert system for magnetic field in the environment above certain threshold which could affect the implants is needed.

3 points posted by Carolyn

Calculating Purchasing Power Parity #pricing #calculator

Thu, 26 Aug 2021 16:31:00 +0000

Pricing the products in the local currency is one of the easiest way to increase the global sales, But just converting the currency and pricing it according to the exchange rates doesn't do justice as price of the product should be what the market is willing to pay for it.

The market would pay according to its purchasing power, Purchasing Power Parity provides the rates of conversion to equalize the purchasing power of source country and destination country by taking into account different economic factors.

But calculators which help with this conversion are outdated.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Online fraud detection systems are broken #security #frauddetection

Tue, 24 Aug 2021 06:38:00 +0000

Online infrastructure service providers especially the cloud providers ban the customer accounts at whim often due to flawed, outdated fraud detection systems.

There are numerous horror stories[1][2][3] from customers on how their accounts were banned for no apparent reason without proper recourse.

There are genuine cases of fraudulent activities happening using the cloud infrastructure, but the current mechanisms used to identify those activities are inefficient and therefore genuine customers who haven't done anything wrong get caught up in it. I presume both the service providers and the customers would like to get this need-gap addressed.

3 points posted by Russel

Find why the customer didn't make the purchase #sales #analytics

Mon, 23 Aug 2021 13:47:00 +0000

Finding why the customer didn't make the purchase after visiting the buy page is hard, existing solutions are intrusive and inefficient.

Exit survey is one of the common methodologies applied to find why the customer didn't make the purchase but they are considered a nuisance and so we rarely get any valuable data from it.

3 points posted by Jason

Safe, Easy self-hosted CCTV system #security #selfhosted

Wed, 18 Aug 2021 15:37:00 +0000

People who don't want to send their house or business CCTV video to be stored by some company or don't want to pay yearly cloud subscription charges prefer self-hosted Network Video Recording(NVR). Self-hosting a home security camera setup now requires finding the right camera and setting it up with tools like Shinobi, ZoneMinder, Motion etc.

But self-hosting a CCTV setup has several problems,

Supported cameras are often low quality, riddled with bugs, never receive any firmware updates and send data outside the network.
Open-source CCTV solutions require separate computer to run while proprietary IP Cameras are self-contained solutions.
Setting up open-source CCTV software is beyond the technical capabilities for an average house or business owner.
Quality of motion detection are not on par with proprietary camera systems.

3 points posted by Amaluna

Online marketplace for hardware-tools in India #eCommerce #hardware

Mon, 16 Aug 2021 13:44:00 +0000

There aren't any large scale McMaster-Carr type online supplier for hardware, tools or raw materials in India. With eBay gone, there seems to be an absolute vacuum in this space.

Large businesses can bulk-order hardware tools and materials directly from the source but makers, tinkerers and small businesses are dependent upon importing through overseas eCommerce sites which are often plagued with shipping issues and exaggerated costs.

eCommerce businesses selling electronics components and compute hardware catering to makers and tinkers in India seem to be doing very well, In fact Raspberry Pi foundation sells its product in India on day one through several suppliers like in developed markets and so there's no reason for why an online hardware marketplace catering to the same people shouldn't work out.

Now that Chinese eCommerce websites are also banned in India, It seems like a perfect opportunity to address the need-gap in online hardware marketplace

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Finding coach for any area of life #wellness #mentor

Sun, 15 Aug 2021 00:46:00 +0000

Most people are above-average skill level in at least one specific area, yet are lacking in others. For instance, a med school student may be proficient at studying and memorization, but need help with self-care routines. A middle-aged married woman may have great advice for navigating interpersonal relationships but could stand to learn a lot about gardening. It would be great if there were some social media platform to connect users in a mentor/mentee capacity

There are endless self-help videos available on YouTube for any topic, but they do not offer the same level of individualized attention that a coach can provide
Traditional coaching in the desired area is always expensive and/or unavailable and/or too general. Furthermore, people are much more open about themselves if they can be anonymous

The challenge with this is how to validate a user's skill level in the area they claim to be skilled in, and how to incentivize users to coach others.

3 points posted by bzlister

No standard structure for building in public #buildinpublic #tools

Mon, 09 Aug 2021 15:36:00 +0000

Building SaaS products in public is gaining prominence with builders using #buildinpublic on Twitter on their tweets about what they are building. But the tweets are often disconnected because a random building in public tweet contains very little information about why they are doing what they are doing.

I think this is because there is no standard structure or tooling for building in public.

3 points posted by Yogesh Basu

Content researching is time consuming #writing #SEO

Fri, 06 Aug 2021 09:30:00 +0000

I love to write blogs on technical topics. But the time it takes to do the content researching is always a show stopper. I would have wanted budget friendly tool that can show me ideas, keywords, popular headings given some keywords. Ofcourse it should focus on SEO friendliness.

Added bonus if it can generated AI based titles that I can pick from.

3 points posted by Kamban

What will be my AWS bill after free 12 months #calculator #billing

Mon, 02 Aug 2021 13:41:00 +0000

My free 12 months AWS ends soon and I am trying to calculate the future bill after it ends. But AWS only shows $0.00 for all the items in the previous month bills because its negated from the credits.

AWS has a forecast tool but it's useless for this scenario as previous bills were all $0 and so it forecasts the current month where the AWS free tier ends as $0 as well.

In order to estimate the future bill I have to individually calculate cost for each item with its price and usage or wait till the free-tier ends and find it out from the first bill.

3 points posted by Batuhan

Kitchen Mixer Grinder related accidents #accidentprevention #homeappliance

Mon, 02 Aug 2021 10:23:00 +0000

Two of my family members at different times have got their finger hurt on the blades of a mixer grinder. At both times as a quick reaction to close the lid of the jar when it was loose and the mixer was switched on accidentally or deliberately.

May be these can be dismissed as lack of focus when operating things which can hurt us, But we tend to loose focus when doing mundane things every day.

I feel there is a need to build safe mixer grinder which can prevent such accidents.

3 points posted by Shamiksha

Single referral system for all services #marketing #monetization

Fri, 30 Jul 2021 02:43:00 +0000

Affiliate marketing is the best alternative to those who don't want to encroach upon the privacy of their readers with ads which uses tracking cookies. When used in a content without conflict of interest it can add value to both the readers and the publisher.

But the current referral system is messy with,

Each product or service having tied up with a different agency for providing referral links or having their own.
Arbitrary approval criteria for new signups.
Obscure payment policies etc.
Publishers gaming the referral system where only a single eCommerce company is benefited.

There's need-gap in affiliate marketing to cut down the middlemen and to connect the advertisers with publisher directly with a single universal referral system.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Keeping the things I like with me #consumerpower #privacy

Sun, 18 Jul 2021 14:20:00 +0000

Netflix knows what type of movies I like, Amazon knows which brands I like to purchase from, DoorDash knows what I like to eat and Google knows everything there is to know about me; But I would like to know, keep track of it what I like with me and offer it to services as and when needed.

There's not much to worry about if these services use their recommendation system only to deliver what we need as a consumer, But after learning what we like the recommendation system is used for their advantage to sell what they want to us(those with more markup), even if there's a better option for us available in their platform.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Colors look different according to the browser #webdevelopment #color

Tue, 13 Jul 2021 16:11:00 +0000

Colors are displayed differently in each browser. The reasons are explained in detail by Matthew Szatmary, In summary - browsers and standards are a mess.

During development and video production I have to test in different browsers for adjusting to this and it consumes lot of effort.

I feel there is a need-gap in solutions for testing color accuracy across browsers.

3 points posted by Roman

Internet troubles during live TV interviews #television #videocall

Thu, 08 Jul 2021 16:17:00 +0000

Can you hear me, I can't hear you

That is what we have been hearing on every television interviews now since everyone is attending interviews remotely using Internet video calls.

Internet network connectivity troubles are a huge pain to these TV channels as not all participants have fast, stable Internet plan and are genuinely annoying to the audience.

Surely this is a need-gap right?

3 points posted by Alan

Personalized avatar stickers without text #profile #socialmedia

Sat, 03 Jul 2021 16:19:00 +0000

I like to keep avatars as picture for social media but I don't use iPhone or Samsung phone for those fancy memojis and have to settle in for using Bitmoji app. But Bitmoji avatar stickers come with text and so I want to create avatars without the text.

Is there an app which can help me create memoji like avatars but without text on a non Samsung android phone?

3 points posted by Pierr

Frictions in B2B Forex #money #finance

Sat, 03 Jul 2021 02:26:00 +0000

Frictions in consumer to business payments have largely been reduced due to innovative solutions by payment gateway and hosts but it remains in business to business transactions.

Account payable teams of large multinational corporations still rely upon legacy wire transfers for foreign exchange incurring huge transaction fees, delays in receiving the money and often have to visit the bank in person for Forex remittance(In today's remote first world!) . The problem is more pronounced when one of the parties is from a developing country and compliance hurdles adds up to this problem.

So I feel there's large need-gap in the solutions for B2B money transfer.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Suggest unique pronounceable baby names #linguistics #children

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 14:01:00 +0000

I would like to give my children the advantage of having unique names from email id to social media handles. At the same time I don't want the name to be like X Æ A-Xii.

So a service which suggests unique pronounceable baby names would be very useful for parents like me.

3 points posted by Kayla

Building an audience as an indie-maker #customeracquistion #creator

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 19:12:00 +0000

The audience-first approach seems to be THE way to be successful as an indie-maker. But building an audience is incredibly difficult.

Not everyone is good at writing / talking / video...

My main problems:

- finding great content to share

- be consistent, do this every day

- make it productive enough so it doesn't affect my creation time too much.

What's your secrets?

3 points posted by Thibault

Selling hardware products as a solopreneur #sales #ecommerce

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 14:16:00 +0000

I want to sell hardware products internationally, But as a solopreneur meeting compliance for hardware locally and internationally is a nightmare and hence I settle for building SaaS products like most other indie hackers.

There are hardware product marketplaces like Tindie which help solopreneurs get their customers, But the seller has to still maintain the inventory and ship directly to the buyer. Today hosting a eCommerce website as an individual is not the limiting factor even for those who don't know to code, So the real need gap exists in removing the compliance and shipping hurdles.

With tough competition in SaaS industry, Building hardware products is a great way to differentiate our product line-up. With the rising number of solopreneurs I think it's high time this need gap gets addressed.

I have couple of ideas to address this which I'll share in the comments and would like to hear more from you.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Compare law of the land in an easy way #law #travel

Sun, 27 Jun 2021 07:31:00 +0000

I am planning to take a world tour after the pandemic, When I do I would like to be apprised of the local laws in each country when compared to mine. Contrary to what many think, There are some unexpected laws in even developed nations which can get one into trouble.

So I would like to compare the common laws of country I am visiting with the laws of my country e.g. If I am traveling from UK to Acropolis, Greece the service should warn me about high heels being illegal in a easily understandable manner. Also since there new local regulations due to pandemic in almost all countries, This type of service can be of immense help if updated regularly with accurate information.

3 points posted by Madhuri

Eye strain due to lockdown #health #wellness

Tue, 22 Jun 2021 13:51:00 +0000

Like many others who are sitting at their home staring at screens, I have become myopic. It looks like lot of us would be working from home permanently here after, requiring solutions to prevent eye strain and myopia was already an endemic before the pandemic.

What are the solutions built for protecting our vision under these new circumstances?
3 points posted by Rudolph

Geocaching with more than "go there, find that" #gaming #recreation

Sun, 20 Jun 2021 11:31:00 +0000

I know this type of app already exist in some form. But after trying some of them, I believe they have still room for improvement. Its too often "go there", "find that". An application with local adventure in cities. Once selected an adventure the user follow a story line with steps to achieve. It helps him discover a local environment, with a potential to history and point of interest of a city. With a more premium model you could imagine more physical interaction with the world (IoT, NFC, QRcode, etc) and a proper follow up in case of difficulty same as the master of game in an escape game. What are your thoughts ? 3 points posted by Alexandre

I have a hard time piecing code together #programming #education

Mon, 14 Jun 2021 21:46:00 +0000

I have a hard time figuring out what i need to know to build and piece together code knowing syntax is not enough to learn programming. I know basic javasript syntax but I have a hard time which syntax connects with what.

How do you approach a javascript problem? For this, I quit learning programming, and I would like to try again. I burned out on tutorial hell. One day, I hope to become a proficient programmer.

and now another course or list of syntax wont help. thank you!

3 points posted by anoncookies

Retain key lessons from non-fiction titles #reading #retention

Sun, 13 Jun 2021 12:47:00 +0000

Without access to synchronous book clubs or study groups, our options are limited to note-taking, self-refelction - pen and paper or apps like Notion - to retain key, actionable information, quotes and lessons from great nonfiction psychology, sociology and business titles.

Apps like Blinkist offer professional summaries but it is not the same as really reading and absorbing it yourself and applying the lessons to work and life.

I sometimes re-read the title but this means finding the physical or digital copy, or audio book and the time to read/listen again.

3 points posted by davearms

Engagement with employees in small startups #team #engagement

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 15:32:00 +0000

I spend 50% of time in recruiting, and the other in helping my current team perform better....

Which is majorly aligning them on goals and checking on how they are doing avoiding burn out etc.

What are the best ways to do this??? ha ha we don't have an HR team yet so maybe that's the answer?

3 points posted by tco

Remote work is making me lonely and depressed #remote #mentalhealth

Sun, 06 Jun 2021 02:08:00 +0000

I am a jolly type person who enjoys the relationships we make at office. For the past 1.5 years I have been working remotely due to the pandemic and I feel very lonely, depressed due to that.

Worst of all it looks like the remote work is going to be permanent and switching jobs is not an option as all other firms are offering remote work only.

Are you in the same position as me? What have you done to cope with this situation?

3 points posted by Jake

Identity Theft #cybersecurity #cryptography

Fri, 04 Jun 2021 13:42:00 +0000

Getting our identity stolen online can have debilitating consequences, With many adopting to the online lifestyle of sharing unfettered access to their personal data it has become very easy for a cyber criminal to steal someone's identity.

Solutions to safe guard online identity hasn't caught up with the rate of identity theft. Scammers are even using stolen identity to run successful fraudulent indiegogo campaigns and the one who got their identity stolen have to face the brunt of it (Read pinned comment of that YT video).

Technically inclined have had cryptographic measures like PGP key to verify their identity. But a solution to verify identity should as easy as sharing personal data online, for it to see mass adoption.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Search and organize saved reddit posts/comments #reddit #search

Thu, 03 Jun 2021 07:16:00 +0000

Hi,

So I have been using reddit for 5 years now and I keep saving interesting links/discussions that I want to come back at a later time.

Reddit limits saved posts/comments to 1000 and there is no easy way to search for that specific topic you remember you saved 2 months ago.

3 points posted by th3owner

Validating Minimum Viable Product #MVP #validation

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 15:30:00 +0000

Platforms like needgap help in validating problems, Which helps us to invest our efforts in building solutions for problems which people want to be solved.

But how to validate the solution we build? Whether it effectively solves the problem for our customers? Whether people are willing to pay for that solution to make it into a Minimum Viable Product(MVP)?

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Royalty free music which is not overused #music #copyright

Mon, 31 May 2021 17:37:00 +0000

Royalty free music is often either over-used, or needs complex licensing to use it without copyright strikes. I propose building a SaaS service where you can access music and download and use as much as you need, based on monthly billing. The genres would be varied and you could use the music anywhere - on marketing videos, explainer videos, podcasts, video games, etc

I am a composer and would build it in nocode using Airtable as my framework. There, you could access all files, preview them easily, filter by genre and mood and download and use what you need.

3 points posted by Melobleep

Reduce negative\toxic replies on twitter #socialmedia #moderation

Sun, 30 May 2021 09:40:00 +0000

I've noticed that folks with many Twitter followers experience a lot of spam, troll or toxic replies. Recently Pieter Levels shared his script to mute and make unfollow some of his followers by keywords in their bio and other criteria. This is his way to mitigate this issue. I am considering remaking this as a product and wondering whether more people have this problem and would find such solution valuable. 3 points posted by becausecurious

What has been removed due to chip shortage #comparision #semiconductor

Sun, 30 May 2021 07:14:00 +0000

Car manufacturers are silently cutting down on features due to the chip shortage and it's logical to assume it's not just limited to car manufacturers.

Nonobservant buyers could be at loss due to this.

A comparison website which lists such manufacturers with clear details about what has been cut down in a product due to the chip shortage when compared to the previous model year could empower the consumers.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Too many email newsletters, hard to manage #newsletter #email

Sun, 23 May 2021 19:29:00 +0000

Email letters is where a lot of the great content is these days. I am personally subscribed to a number of newsletters and it’s been increasingly frustrating to find them crowding out my inbox.

I also find that I don’t have time to read all of them but still want a better way to discover/sort through newsletters I’ve missed when I have a moment.

3 points posted by Ericzhou29

There are no parking spaces in big sales days #parking #travel

Wed, 08 Sep 2021 14:41:00 +0000

In sales days (Black Friday for example), there are a lot of people trying to enter stores and usually the parking spaces are full and you have to wait until somebody leaves the parking lot. It will do a lot of service for people to reserve their spot earlier so they find a parking spot easily.

As for now, there are no apps that makes the parking spot reservation for you so you can enter the parking lot enter and leave quickly so you don't waste time driving all the morning until you find that sweet spot.

2 points posted by rgm48

How to know if your ad campaigns are effective? #advertising #marketing

Thu, 02 Jun 2022 16:23:00 +0000

After watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcNbIm0fRxk

I've realised that many companies put a ton of money into ads which helps people to recognize the product but the issue is that those companies don't know if they are targeting the right type of customer and if they are having positive responses from said ads.

1 points posted by rgm48

Getting quaterly financials is a tedious process #finance #stocks

Tue, 31 May 2022 19:37:00 +0000

I ocasionally invest in the stock market from time to time, and it is very hard to find and read company financials in which they takes minutes to read and learn about how the company is performing. Doing the research takes a lot of time and can be time-wasting which could be used to make quicker decisiones. 1 points posted by rgm48

Simple Anime Info Platform #anime #information

Mon, 09 May 2022 17:25:00 +0000

So I watch anime, and the problem I have now was that there was no simple way to find information such as "Synopsis"

"year of release" or "the episode count". Yes sites like MAL (My anime List) and AniList exist but the problem with those

sites is that they have a overload of information and you had to "get used to the site" before knowing where to look.

I myself haven't been interested in other details such as cast and staff as I've only needed the synopsis of a show to get into it

and this led to my solution.

1 points posted by Mini-Sylar

Aerial imaging through commercial airplanes #mapping #AerialImaging

Mon, 25 Apr 2022 15:38:00 +0000

In an discussion on Billion-dollar airline routes, User csteubs on HN says:

There's still money on the table for airline operators where routes are concerned. It sounds a bit fringe, but most of these flights take off and land at airports in large cities. International airports are often zoned around industrial centers that are typically set off away from the city core. Coupled with the high frequency of inbound and outbound traffic depending on the airport, commercial flights are excellent candidates for capturing high resolution aerial imagery in near-real time. In many cases, those images can be transmitted back down while the plane is in the air thanks to in-flight internet.
There have been past attempts to harness the passive residual capabilities of air travel for photography, but none have stuck based on the difficulty of scaling such a system. If successful, crowdsourced aerial photography for cartography could add a layer of temporal resolution we just can't achieve with fewer than 500 imaging satellites currently in orbit, and for 1/10,000th the cost of satellite-based imaging. Add on concerns about LEO crowding and the thousands of use cases near-real-time aerial imaging could provide at a fraction of the cost, it becomes an interesting problem to solve.

There are plenty of barriers to this kind of scheme, regulation in particular, that could keep airlines from participating; the first major carrier who does, however, may find themselves with a new multi-billion dollar revenue stream.

(Disclosure: Founder @ https://notasatellite.com

Considering the use for up-to-date mapping is growing exponentially due to navigation related apps there could indeed be a need-gap for aerial real-time imaging through commercial airplanes.

1 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Testing cloud services without surprise bills #cloud #cost

Mon, 25 Apr 2022 15:23:00 +0000

In an discussion of avoiding surprise AWS bills, User Havoc on HN says:

Somewhat surprised none of the major clouds off true sandboxed learning environments as a competitive advantage. i.e. We will not charge you more than $100 no matter what. Sure that doesn't work for enterprise stuff that has to be online, but there is a big market for people that can swallow $100 accidents but not 15k. And whoever offers that first will attract the cautious crowd. I've got friends that point blank refuse to use cloud due to the open ended billing. (Azure comes closes as best as I can tell...their MSDN style credits seem to be true hard capped) [Invariably this get's the "but what to do about the data...can't just delete it...yes you can. The $100 crowd is ok with that. 30 day grace then delete it...much like anyone with an unpaid bill]

Setting budget limit can help in avoiding surprise bills, But there could be a need-gap for providing learning environments for cloud services with fixed costs.

1 points posted by Abishek Muthian

There are too many places to buy/rent a tuxedo #rental #clothing

Sun, 24 Apr 2022 19:26:00 +0000

There are too many places to go buy/rent a tuxedo and this causes the customer a headache to go and drive to each location to find out which one suits (no pun intended) them the best. If you want to get a tuxedo in today's world you would need to go to different stores to try them and select the one that's best for you. However, this approach is very time-consuming and can get the customer tired in search of the tuxedo that suits his needs. 1 points posted by rgm48

Single subscription for multiple news sources #news #subscription

Mon, 18 Apr 2022 14:36:00 +0000

User yummybear on HN says,

Not OC, but the thing with most of these international media articles is I want to read an ft.com article maybe once per year. Tomorrow it's another media with another article. Why would I want a subscription to read one single article?

To which user guerrilla says,

Sounds like you just hit on a business model... multi-subscriptions to news. You could change the world with that.

And I seem to agree with them, Subscription for news is the best way to monetize and for fair reporting, free from the clutches of the advertisers. But a typical news consumer reads news from multiple sources and so subscribing to each one of them is not viable for most.

1 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Learning to make music as an adult #music #education

Tue, 29 Mar 2022 21:53:00 +0000

Hi all!

I've been interesting in learning to play and produce music as an adult, and been feeling quite intimidated by the concepts of music theory and all the things that need to be remembered. I've been finding that many of the online resources seem overly complicated and tedious to follow.

1 points posted by thisisseb

find software system requirement for any domain #software #research

Sun, 20 Mar 2022 13:24:00 +0000

When developing software systems, knowledge of a domain (possibly many) is required to come up with the requirements of that system. often times, It's very hard to gather these domain requirements, and requires someone who's delved in the domain. This is especially problematic for a single person or a technical-only team.

Of course, technical people who develop such software systems try to learn about the domain. For example, they Google about the topic, go to Statista to read research made in the domain, and they might even talk to (or hire) domain experts about the system they are developing. However, this is not always feasible due to time, cost and/or nature of domains.

Personally, this problem occurred to me when brewing up an E-Commerce SaaS idea. I looked at other players in this field: Shopify, WordPress. etc. and I found it very hard to find to find the domain problems of E-Commerce as someone who has 0 domain experience.

Finally, this problem affects all domains and sub-domains. Here is a list of industries (domains) published by BLS
https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag_index_alpha.htm

1 points posted by fawaz