Ask HN: Is this a billion dollar business idea?

3 pointsthrwawy201604219y ago5 comments

There was a post today about selling space on municipal vehicles for AVLR systems and gas sensors. I was reading this and thinking, how do we generalize it? How about a portal for municipalities who can register and search for monetization opportunities? Then I wanted to expand this further. I want to connect Companies-Who-Want-To-Do-Wardriving with Uber-Drivers-Who-Want-More-Money and also with Cash-Strapped-Municipalities.

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bikamonki9y ago

So, I am an uber driver and install a gas sensor. I gather data on every ride (realtime hook to a cloud log). A company buys my data to give it to muni for free, in some manner of green tax payment?

mswen9y ago

put vibration sensors on cars and use vibration analysis to get a measure of how rough various sections of road for most needed road repairs and resurfacing.

run air particulate sensors and create daily maps of particulate counts in the air for people with asthma or other respiratory diseases

coreyp_19y ago

Many, many business ideas are billion-dollar ideas.

The question is: Do you have a billion-dollar execution (e.g., marketing)?

thrwawy20160421OP9y ago

As an individual, you would create a profile on the site, so you can find opportunities. If you own a car, you might want to see how you can get paid for putting a wrap on your car, or driving around with a box.

Gotta think of a good name for this. It's like when you pay a data center to host your box, except this time, your car is the data center.

thrwawy20160421OP9y ago

Let's say you went as far as designing a rack, for hot swappable modules. The rack just holds them in your trunk or wherever and provides 12v power, maybe with a ups.

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Ask HN: Is this a billion dollar business idea?

3 pointsthrwawy201604219y ago5 comments

5 comments

bikamonki9y ago

So, I am an uber driver and install a gas sensor. I gather data on every ride (realtime hook to a cloud log). A company buys my data to give it to muni for free, in some manner of green tax payment?

mswen9y ago

put vibration sensors on cars and use vibration analysis to get a measure of how rough various sections of road for most needed road repairs and resurfacing.

run air particulate sensors and create daily maps of particulate counts in the air for people with asthma or other respiratory diseases

coreyp_19y ago

Many, many business ideas are billion-dollar ideas.

The question is: Do you have a billion-dollar execution (e.g., marketing)?

thrwawy20160421OP9y ago

Gotta think of a good name for this. It's like when you pay a data center to host your box, except this time, your car is the data center.

thrwawy20160421OP9y ago

Let's say you went as far as designing a rack, for hot swappable modules. The rack just holds them in your trunk or wherever and provides 12v power, maybe with a ups.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse