Ask HN: Looking for some input/feedback on a crackpot idea
Hacking Quality of Life for the world don't hack for calender apps and annoying ads, hack for bettering the world....and make money. making money is cool.
Opportunity Index: (use some sort of weighting based on the following)
- quality of life index
- access to internet/freedom to do so
- identify primary economic sectors in each area you are assessing & identify how people make their income in said area(largest industry is not always primary income generator for an area!)
-look for inefficiencies in these areas (the less efficient, the higher the opportunity)
- look at social problems in the area you are assessing
- a social problem can sometimes, not always, be a great opportunity to solve or minimize the problem, leading to a region more efficient
-> stable -> profitable
- once you've weighted those aspects and have a ranking of opportunities in each area, include factors such as competition, barriers to market entry, etc...
- now you have your weighted opportunity index by location and market, just find the idea and the people and the money...easy right?
Primary Breakdown:
Continent ->
Country ->
State ->
Regional.
Medical ->
Financial ->
Technology ->
Life Sciences ->
Manufacturing ->
Social -> (not facebook social, more like homeless people/libraries getting shut down in urban areas/lack of education - social) Etc....
elements:
- brief summary of idea & how it can improve quality of life
- applicable markets( sector, location, est. market cap, est. revenue, etc...)
put people in contact with each other, use linkedin, facebook, etc..? based on stuff above
can the idea, once proven, be scaled to other regions/markets? (chances are, if you've solved a problem in one area, it probably needs to be solved in others...)
- MVP funding target (progress bar of some sort updated in somewhat real time)
- MVP team target (positions and skills needed are listed) (progress bar of some sort also, updated in somewhat real time)
- MVP traction goal (again, also a progress bar updated in somewhat real time)
- once it meets target for MVP stuff:
blog with updates
apply to YC?
- perhaps throw some bitcoins equity in there and create a whole new derivatives market?(prob. won't fly w/ regulation)