Ask HN: cloud supercomputing for the masses
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Not unless you have a specific use case to address. In my experience the average user is pretty unimaginative about applications of general computing tools.
i figured you'd need a few large data sets to start with. find verticals with data needs (stock market/finance for one) that have lots of quantifiable data.
Infochimps and others have proved there is a market for large niche datasets, but I think the idea of hosting said data and charging per query could work - but is really just a twist on what the incumbents are already doing.
P.S what happened to YC-backed datamarketplace.com? Their site seems abandoned.
P.S what happened to YC-backed datamarketplace.com? Their site seems abandoned.
Interestingly, Google announced something similar recently -- 'BigQuery' -> https://code.google.com/apis/bigquery/
So my question is do you think there could be a consumer demand for spot queries against large scale datasets. I.e. A realtor wants to know the number of houses for sale in the us to war veterans between the ages of x and y during the lat 15 years.
This idea came to me after reading about a sports betting database on espn magazine that was selling for 15k a pop.
So could you guys see applications for letting average users run queries cheaply against a giant cloud/grid computing tool?