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What are under-investigated, important, outlandish, or fringe ideas that are worthy of attention?
I work on Pioneer. It's a kind of pre-YC network for people building projects that might become companies. You apply with your idea, accumulate points by making progress on your project, meet friends, etc.
We recently built an experiment called Launcher (https://pioneer.app/launcher).
The idea is to implement repeated startup advice in software. Turn the sea of startup blog posts into a list of checkboxes and progress bars, a HUD for pre-launch companies. Kind of like Peloton or a 5x5 lifting apps do for fitness.
We'd be very curious to get HN's advice on two things -- (a) Is this a worthwhile endeavor? (And if not, what is the snap-to-grid adjustment that we should enact?) (b) Where should we take this next? What are the other adjacent "courses" we should implement in software?
Thank you!
Strikes me this is at least as important as a vaccine, assuming the numbers hold up with a balanced dataset.
[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9208795/authors
I work with a company that has a few GPU-intensive ML models. Over the past few weeks, growth has accelerated, and with that costs have skyrocketed. AWS cost is about 80% of revenue, and the company is now almost out of runway.
There is likely a lot of low hanging cost-saving-fruit to be reaped, just not enough people to do it. We would love any pointers to anyone who specializes in the area of cost optimization. Blogs, individuals, consultants, or magicians are all welcome.
Thank you!