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jasonz

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Web Developer, Tech/Startup Enthusiast, MD

Co-Founder at Parlor (https://teamparlor.com/)

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But information technology is what I know, and it’s probably too late for me to learn a new field from scratch.

Information technology can absolutely save lives - I'd argue that a developer building medical software can save more lives than a PhD working on a treatment for cancer. The subtle killer these days are all the extra days a patient spends in the hospital. An extra day or two is what leads to complications. Work on solving the inefficiencies of inpatient medicine (documentation, communication, decision making, ect.) and you can go home at night knowing you are literally saving lives with your programming skills.

It would be cool to somehow use a digital scale to track supplies. Each time you weigh a reagent, the scale could enter the amount used into Quartzy.

Come to think of it, using NFC might work really well for logging supplies. Stick a NFC sticker (I bet tagstand would hook you up) on items you want to track.

Quartzy should look into helping labs sell used lab equipment. It's hard to find a lab that doesn't have some good, functioning lab equipment that is no longer being used. They could set up an exchange that allows the trade or sale of equipment to other labs.

[dead] 15 years ago

I bet this would work amazing if you had a celebrity or two at the event. You could also attach prizes to various seats to get some bidding wars.

What if you let users sign up and use the site for 1 month free? They would be more invested in the site after a month and be more likely to part with some money. I would guess that you would make more money with one month free + 5 dollars for the rest of the year vs 5 dollars up front.

I really like the dropbox model of subscriptions. I would never had paid money when I signed up for dropbox, but now I'm right at my free limit. They have me in a win/win for them - I either pay to increase my storage or refer friends. For 365.io I think users would really get the concept after they see their "free" 30 pictures.

Great job on the design.

Just spent an hour playing with the sound bites - made me wonder how much it costs southerners in lost productivity from speaking so slowly

[dead] 16 years ago

love the idea - everything is better with food. Best of luck to you. If you want to try this out in Philly down the road, I'm definitely in.