What Is Your Problem?

Recipes w/ calories, pricing to my favorite grocery stores (Trader Joes, Sprouts, Whole foods), and food prep instructions (sunday night prep)

I can tell you if you're looking to make this a startup idea, its a shitty one. Bad Market, Hard problem.

With that said, I'd pay >$100 a year for it.

German bureaucracy makes automation very difficult. Each case depends on the human that will handle it, and how they feel that day.

No one has the authority to make lasting improvements, and no one has an incentive to take the initiative anyway. There is resistance to change because everyone is either too busy or too lazy to help.

My job is to help immigrants navigate this mess. My strategy to help them is three-tiered: information, tools, policy. So far, policy feels completely out of reach, despite my best effort.

Not sure about startup but -- I'm unable to retain minutia in my brain for long (weeks, months, years) periods but the industry I work in requires it. Examples include:

How many queues does X have? How many are write-only queues? How many can be reconfigured to become wider queues? What are the protocols supported by Y? Which version of the protocols are supported?

I would like a tool, - accessible at my fingertips (through a keystroke), regardless of which Window on my Windows (or Linux) desktop has focus - Allows me to search/add/delete for "Facts" which are associated with "Values" - Will show me results in real-time (as I type, auto-suggest etc) - Easily dismissed by ESC once I've looked it up - Able to add/delete on the fly (through a keystroke); will take input as text and as CTRL+V from clipboard. Text, images, paths, etc supported - Scales to 500K+ items - Is able to bring up suggestions fast (<=100ms) - Able to export to common (CSV, XLS, etc) formats

Bonus points for: - Being able to extract this information automatically from PDFs, JPGs etc

If something like this exists, let me know!

How much of our lives is spent filling out forms? They usually ask for the same data (much of it unchanging) for a lifetime.

So: this: Each of us may acquire a single-purpose, secure personal-storage device we can easily backup (but with a different key). A query from some org will ask for a list of particulars. If a particular is already on the device, it may be routinely added to the output queue, else it asks us if we wish it to be queued. We can choose to add a missing particular, or edit an existing one. Click, click, gone, done. A particular which requires an official confirmation (e.g. birth certificate) will include a DOI. Org must swap-certify with issueing agency. (It's not my account number.)

Etc. etc. If it does not recognize our voice input on insertion (or detects a rubber hose), it warns the carrier, signals Skynet, then bursts into flames.

Renting a monitor, keyboard and office chair and desk when I go to the sun for a few months in the winter. I've had this issue 4 times in the past 3 years, in Southern Spain and in the Canary islands. No one rents office gear to remote workers.

I want to be able to go to a website, check a box beside each item I want, choose a delivery time, and have someone in a white van come and set up everything in my rental apartment or villa, then collect the day before my flight home.

I'd easily pay 50% of the cost of the items for this just for the convenience, and I know I'm not the only one. The target market is NOT nomad or budget travellers - it's professionals on high incomes.

I mentioned this in the 'other idea' section of a recent YC application, but they didn't bite.

I suffer from periodic limb movement disorder. It’s actually the second most common sleep disorder after sleep apnea.

It’s restless legs, but it happens in deep sleep, when you’re unaware it’s happening.

Sleep apnea has tons of tech built up to help with the problem. Smart connected CPAPs that monitor your sleeping for you, for example.

But for periodic limb movements in deep sleep the specific need of tracking limb movements is not well covered. My sleep doctor suggested putting a fit bit on my ankle. This sort of works, but not well.

With such a large potential market, and totally plausible movement sensing products, I’m surprised more companies haven’t gotten specifically into limb movement monitoring during sleep.

Help my autistic kid Learn to speak. The closest app is $200 just to show him flashcards and says an audio clip.

I type the same things over and over again. I would like an offline app that would capture everything I type (emails, code, reports) and create a library of snippets -- or better yet templates -- that I could access via a shortcut or a key combo.

For example, it would automatically recognize the five different email signatures I type often and make them accessible by typing, say, ”xxsig” followed by pressing TAB to cycle through the five signatures. I would also want it to learn how I write docstrings and generate templates that I could access via another keyword.

Proper attribution of sales conversions. Especially if the lead has been reached using various channels.

I want an implicitly parallel programming language. Write code that looks single threaded, doesn't have any mutex/spawn/channel stuff in it, that runs on one core locally or the nearby cluster with the same behaviour and lower wall clock time.

Shazam but for every track on soundcloud above 500 listens.

There are way too many good songs on there that will never hit more mainstream platforms and be recognized by Shazam.

> What is the problem in your industry/job/life that you would like someone to solve?

As Douglas Adams said: It is somebody elses problem.

I need to focus on one learning objective and dump a few months at least. I simply cannot focus for that long.

Unsupervised anomaly detection in very big system logs for arbitrary systems.