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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: What happened to carry.travel (YC S19) ?

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: How to start a startup that helps combat global warming?

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jamanetwork.com 4y ago

Analysis of Neighborhood Food Environment and Diabetes Risk

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www.cnn.com 6y ago

Nestlé is spending billions to create a market for recycled plastics

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: Help setting up an office in India?

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www.independent.ie 7y ago

Stripe - Long Way from Tipperary: How to Build a €20bn Firm

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hbr.org 7y ago

Using AI to Improve Electronic Health Records

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www.forbes.com 8y ago

Why I Don't Buy Organic, and Why You Might Not Want to Either

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www.wired.com 8y ago

Compost makes an internet community grow, thanks to an app

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www.businessinsider.com 8y ago

The idea that most successful startup founders are in their twenties is a myth

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ai.googleblog.com 8y ago

Deep Learning for Electronic Health Records

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hbr.org 8y ago

How Health Care Changes When Algorithms Start Making Diagnoses

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www.theguardian.com 8y ago

If exercise was a pill it would be prescribed to every patient

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www.economist.com 8y ago

A revolution in health care is coming – Welcome to Doctor You

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www.theguardian.com 8y ago

How does ‘class-passing’ actually work?

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www.businessinsider.com 8y ago

Millennials are ditching the golf communities for agri-hoods

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www.irishtimes.com 8y ago

Intercom’s simple strategy wins over the big hitters

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www.nytimes.com 8y ago

How to Be a C.E.O., from a Decade’s Worth of Them

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www.economist.com 8y ago

New types of therapy mean cancer is going to become ever more survivable

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www.theguardian.com 8y ago

What I learned about solitude from my time with hermits

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www.businessinsider.com 8y ago

35-year-old with cancer has a sobering msg about not taking life for granted

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www.independent.co.uk 9y ago

The UK’s first food waste supermarket opens

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www.zeit.de 9y ago

They argued he would grow more reasonable once in office

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hbr.org 9y ago

What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class

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www.nature.com 9y ago

Study shows alternative therapies improve metabolomic profile

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www.bbc.com 10y ago

Leicester City: The science behind their Premier League title

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linkis.com 10y ago

The major pitfall for digital health startups

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www.inc.com 10y ago

Kevin Plank Is Betting Almost $1B That Under Armour Can Beat Nike

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www.theguardian.com 10y ago

Abacus adds up to number joy in Japan

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www.nytimes.com 11y ago

Cancer Doctors Offer Way to Compare Medicines, Including by Cost

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Thanks for the above feedback, I greatly appreciate it. I agree on your comment regarding a shared route as opposed to individual pick ups.

The idea of a "zero waste diversion quota" sounds interesting as well.

A lot of food for thought....

Thanks for the appropedia link as well.

I have been looking on airbnb and there seems to be some good options, however a lot of them are very expensive. There are some nice hacker houses. I messaged them and I am waiting to hear back from them.

Ask HN: Idea Sunday 12 years ago

Yes, data entry is the gap. I have been thinking about that and it seems like there are a number of solutions that would allow you to read the text from a photo, vivino.com is an example of an app that does this very well with wine labels. I wonder if you could take a high quality photo of the receipt and the app would add the contents of the receipt to the db based on this? I know its not going to be seamless and may take a bit of manual work at the beginning. Partnering with a grocery store or multiple when the solution picks up traction could also simplify things significantly.

Ask HN: Idea Sunday 12 years ago

Food inventory for the ordinary home. A synced cross platform app that allows a normal home to monitor: 1)What food has been bought? 2)What the expiration date is? Warnings when food is going out of date. 3)What meals can be made based on the food “in stock”?

I hate throwing away food and often buy food I already have or that my girlfriend has bought. I have been trying to think of ways to monitor what food is at home and to reduce the amount of food wastage in our home.

I think an app that allows you to scan shopping receipts, the contents of which are automatically loaded into a database and synced across multiple apps would be very useful.

It could be monetized using the freemium model, e.g. more complex functionality the more you pay and also by integrating with online shopping engines such as instacart.

Any feedback on this greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the feedback. I am currently working on the branding, this is definitely something which needs to be done. Good point about the photo of the poster from an angle. Will take the above on board. Thanks again!

Thank you very much for this.

I have been reading ecommercefuel.com and Andrew(webmaster) says you can get around the low margin by choosing a niche that requires a lot of additional information,e.g something technical and then pricing yourself higher than competitors. He argues customers will pay for the additional information and good customer service. E.g. help installing etc.

As someone who has been there and done that, would you agree with this?

Thanks for your comment. That is an interesting story and something to think about. What is the loophole at the moment? Not that I want to get involved in anything shady. A lot of the time with start-ups there is a lot of risk with the possibility of massive rewards, however there has to be safer options(medium risk) without getting a corporate job or being a contractor.

Thanks for your reply. I understand that building a business is never going to be easy and that there will always be challenges. However, I guess the question I am asking is whether or not e-commerce is a faster route to sure profitability? For example, if I was to devote my time to building a social network it could potentially be very very lucrative. However, the likelihood of it being lucrative or ever even making money for that matter is a lot smaller than if I devote my time to ecommerce. This makes me think ecommmerce is a "surer" way of working(less risk).

I have tried approaching one of the above mentioned. Chasing the other 2 is definitely on my to do list. if you know of any other similar sites please let me know.