Ask HN: What business would you start in 2025? If you were to start from scratch, $0/£0 in the bank, what industry or business would you tackle? I’m just curious if AI would feature or if this is a saturated market. |
Ask HN: What business would you start in 2025? If you were to start from scratch, $0/£0 in the bank, what industry or business would you tackle? I’m just curious if AI would feature or if this is a saturated market. |
In 2024 it would be too early, and in 2026 it would probably be too late.
this guy knows what hes doing, and he fcks too!
If I'm feeling energetic and risky, I would evaluate the commercial viability of radioisotope batteries.
Specifically though, I have struggled with the fact that many "third places" in my city are breweries - there isn't anywhere to go if you want a large, well maintained outdoor space with seating areas, that also has food and drink options, but that isn't a restaurant looking to turn over tables.
A good NA brewing space could provide the casual "come hang out with your friends/kids" third place that a good brewery does, while catering to those looking to reduce alcohol intake or those that don't drink.
Meaning there is a decent moat and customer demand.
In fact I just checked Meetup and all I see is weird scam courses and speed dating events.
Again and again they post and comment about loneliness, for obvious reasons given the lifestyle.
It’s hard for me to have much sympathy for someone who’s deliberately living a life that’s making them feel lonely.
I’m working on something which I think would be a great product but a direct competitor got $25 million in VC funding in 2021.
Does anyone have experience with this kind of work?
If it has to be in tech, I would jump on the latest trend and try to squeeze it quickly before moving on.
Because everything is trivial to reason about, there's nowhere for bugs, or zero day exploits, to hide.
Oh.. and we'd do an open source data diode product as well.
I'm stuck in analysis paralysis... or I'd have more than an emulator[2] to show you. In theory, you can take any expression that can be broken down to a directed graph of binary logical expressions, and compile it into the "program" for the BitGrid. Because the grid is homogeneous, you can shift or rotate, or flip it to move the I/O around. The aforementioned dependency tracing makes it possible to prove the functionality conforms to the desired logical expression graph.
I need a kick in the pants to get the rest of this thing figured out. As near as I can tell, the only problems are my own writers block.
Good time to find people to hire and work hard to prepare for better times.
I'd suggest selling bricks. In other words, operating systems that never, ever, trust user code. See Genode or GNU Hurd for examples.
On side could also sell testing against AI, but the usual suspects are already enough work.
It feels like everyone is putting AI in even though not many people particularly want AI.
Using the OpenAI ChatGPT APIs doesn't make you an "AI" company, but they don't care.
Patching together a bunch of random React, NextJS, Prisma code won't do it for much longer.
1. They're sold on a lie. Here's a photo of my laptop in front of a beautiful pool, next to a delicous bowl of $1 Pad Thai. Ignore the February burning season and total inability to communicate with anybody outside of self-deceiving 20-something Westerners like myself.
2. There are benefits. Being a DN is freeing and fun, especially if this is your first shot at remote work. You don't justify to anybody what time you have your sandwich in the morning.
3. Most DNs have never experienced actual loneliness before, so they don't know how crippling it is. They think all their friends and family having been away/busy one weekend or even one month was loneliness. That's like how the people in 5-day COVID hotel lockdown thought of themselves as having experienced imprisonment. Sure, only in a glancing sense.
4. Sex/romance tourism. Look at the hot exotic naive foreigner who's here to exchange some emotions/experiences with you, the hot exotic native person who's otherwise boring or too slutty/free-thinking for people in your own country.
Being a Digital Nomad is a life experience that comes with as many negatives as positives. But there are positives.
Why do people do it? Because the alternative is to never have done it.