Ask HN: Information you would like in one central place
What scattered information would you love to have in one place? Like Clearbit or Google search.
People from different industries, please speak up!
People from different industries, please speak up!
For inspiration I googled around and looked at community search, event calendars, etc in the Portland area, sooo many variations, some good some not so good, some strictly limited in scope, other with specific goals that don't mesh with others.
It all sounds a lot easier to envision than achieve. My suggestion just find something you think you can do better and start eking out your niche.
A central place with 10-sentence (or less) summaries from the most important books. So I could read everything from this one place in 1 month and bootstrap myself as a human.
e.g. like Derek Sivers's book notes from https://sivers.org/book but shorter and denser.
This lets me find things that are closer to what I want or have used before (where was that set of instructions on the Pi Sense Hat). The wiki allows me to categorize things for easier finding, but the built in search helps.
I also own books like Machinery's Handbook, ARRL Handbook (ham radio) and the CRC Handbook for quick data reference. All of that information is on the web, but the books bring it to something that is a little quicker for me to find.
I hate having dozens of different inboxes. I hate having over 100 apps on my phone. I hate having to create over 1000 for different services and websites.
I want all data to be unified, and I understand that for this to work we need to think differently. We need a different language. That happens to be what I'm currently working on.