Ask HN: Looking for some input/feedback on a crackpot idea

2 pointsby mw6321415 anni fa3 comments

HNI - Hacker News Ideas - Where ideas get built!

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?

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Primary Breakdown:

Continent ->

		Country ->

			State ->

				Regional.

Sector -> (examples)

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)

Iput/questions/feedback/insults all welcome.

2 comments

evangineer15 anni fa

I like how you think, at http://londoncreativelabs.com we're starting to do some of that with our Social Startup Labs.

Check out http://londoncreativelabs.com/labs for the reports from a couple of prototype Social Startup Labs.

mw6321415 anni fa

I just cut & pasted from a textfile, so the the formatting is a bit quirky.

uvdiv15 anni fa

You have a horizontal scrollbar. Here's the problem: some of your lines have too many spaces at the beginning. If you start a line with (I think) four spaces, it becomes <code> formatted, which kills word wrapping (hence, no linebreaks). So, you should remove the spaces.