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I’m so glad we’ve given up on paying people to actually do a good job of curator and just decided to let algorithms do everything for us.

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I think there's a market for a startup that employs human currators.

Yahoo started as a curated list, and DMOZ vetted and categorized everything. Those indexes are now defunct.

I'm thinking more "curration as a service". I'd pay someone to manually currate a daily news update for me, a new playlist from time to time, movie suggestions, etc. Problem is, most companies will probably find they can make a quicker profit by replacing the human curration with an algorithm.

> I'd pay someone to manually currate a daily news update for me, a new playlist from time to time, movie suggestions, etc.

Isn't that what traditional media companies do? I imagine the issue is that one often does not like their curation policy.

DMOZ still exists but is now known as Curlie. https://www.curlie.org/

It's not very active though.

Or a startup with people listening at speakers, googling the answer and telling it back. And access to remote commands for lights, doors and everything else. I would call it the remote butler. BTW, that .com domain is taken since 2005 and parked (not mine, I swear.)

I actually doubt that. There is just not scaling and cost efficiency in that sort of model. Employing people is not very effective startup model.

The problem is making it scale to the degree that large companies want these days.

(Whether it is even a sensible requirement is another matter...)

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