Re:New Weapon in Day Laborers’ Fight Against Wage Theft: A S...
by pc86 on Thursday March 03, 2016 @08:38AM
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Do you have any other ideas about apps to help the poor/vulnerable that a single developer could write?
Re:New Weapon in Day Laborers’ Fight Against Wage Theft: A S...
by DanielBMarkham on Thursday March 03, 2016 @01:19PM
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The problem here is that the problem is exactly the same as any startup -- ideas don't mean a lot. By that I mean that most any idea I could come up has probably been tried before. The trick will be finding a developer who is deeply immersed in the culture of folks they're tying to help and can speak to them.
Anonymously identifying officials that asked you for a bribe. That'd be a great app.
Finding the nearest potable water.
Job search for unskilled workers.
Craigslist for illiterate people (add in geo-location instead of cities)
Re:New Weapon in Day Laborers’ Fight Against Wage Theft: A S...
by DanielBMarkham on Thursday March 03, 2016 @06:29PM
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Most especially in this market -- remember to develop for eyeballs, not money. That is, if you get enough eyeballs? You will be extremely rich.
When we think about SV perhaps going through a downturn, we must remember that there are still hundreds or thousands of opportunities to write apps to help the extremely poor and vulnerable. This is great territory for app-writers who have teams of 1,2, or 3 -- but it'd make no sense at all to pursue if you were an established startup with a ton of overhead.