I am that siberian guy. Who raised $500K at LeWeb, launched at Disrupt, made PassMyWill, MeetCute, and all...
http://leweb.co/blog/how-be-rock-star-evening-leweb
http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/12/quest-li/
http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/02/passmywill-is-a-will-for-your-online-assets-and-passwords/
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/02/14/bored-of-internet-dating-meetcute-gives-fate-a-helping-hand/
However, now I’m back in Siberia, broke, and bored. I seem to be relatively creative. I am working on a bunch of projects, but none of them seem to be solving a new problem. The problem is that I CANNOT NOT TO SOLVE PROBLEMS! It just drives me nuts.
It turns out that it’s not that hard to solve problems as it is to FIND them! (at least, that’s my case) Here is what I did today:
- I went to brush my teeth and noticed that hot water doesn’t go hot instantly from the tap. First it is cold, because it got cooled in the pipe.
- “Here is the problem, let’s solve it!”
- In a minute I came up with this: http://bit.ly/14KJNy8
Then I kept thinking about taps and realized that most of them (at least, in my country) are stupid:
- They either have 2 caps for hot and cold and by some transitive way your brain has to figure out how to adjust temperature and pressure with 2 directly irrelevant controls.
- Or there is this one stick and you have no idea what temperature it will produce before you actually turn it on.
Then I drew this: http://bit.ly/Y32xsT
Here is the thing:
1. I have to be solving problems, I don’t have enough of the right problems to solve.
2. I don’t have the capacity to produce every solution to every little problem that I find, nor should I be doing this.
So I figured, what the hell. I will have some brain stretching and make new friends. Why not, right?
LEAVE YOUR PROBLEM IN THE COMMENTS or EMAIL IT TO danil(a)danil.cc
I WILL TRY TO FIND A SOLUTION FOR IT
My field of expertise:
- Startup software/hardware products. (consumer problems, those are the best!)
- General electronics.
- Common sense :-) (you would be surprised how many people lack this one)
However, now I’m back in Siberia, broke, and bored. I seem to be relatively creative. I am working on a bunch of projects, but none of them seem to be solving a new problem. The problem is that I CANNOT NOT TO SOLVE PROBLEMS! It just drives me nuts.
It turns out that it’s not that hard to solve problems as it is to FIND them! (at least, that’s my case) Here is what I did today:
- I went to brush my teeth and noticed that hot water doesn’t go hot instantly from the tap. First it is cold, because it got cooled in the pipe.
- “Here is the problem, let’s solve it!”
- In a minute I came up with this: http://bit.ly/14KJNy8
Then I kept thinking about taps and realized that most of them (at least, in my country) are stupid:
- They either have 2 caps for hot and cold and by some transitive way your brain has to figure out how to adjust temperature and pressure with 2 directly irrelevant controls.
- Or there is this one stick and you have no idea what temperature it will produce before you actually turn it on. Then I drew this: http://bit.ly/Y32xsT
Here is the thing:
1. I have to be solving problems, I don’t have enough of the right problems to solve.
2. I don’t have the capacity to produce every solution to every little problem that I find, nor should I be doing this.
So I figured, what the hell. I will have some brain stretching and make new friends. Why not, right?
LEAVE YOUR PROBLEM IN THE COMMENTS or EMAIL IT TO danil(a)danil.cc I WILL TRY TO FIND A SOLUTION FOR IT
My field of expertise:
- Startup software/hardware products. (consumer problems, those are the best!)
- General electronics.
- Common sense :-) (you would be surprised how many people lack this one)
Danil Kozyatnikov http://about.me/danilka