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Re:Ask HN: What problems do you have that could be solved us... by cdiamand on Monday August 14, 2017 @12:14PM (#15009784)
I ask this question a lot and have put together a few resources.

daily newsletter:

http://www.oppsdaily.com

and archive:

https://www.oppslist.com

Plus here are a few:

1. "I am a research assistant in a clinical science laboratory. Coordinating and communicating with lab members and collaborators. It would be nice if there were a secure way of sharing documents in unusual formats (like .pzf) and messages in real-time and that they could be stored on a group server/secure cloud that everyone could see and edit in concert with maybe a admin managing editing and sharing permissions. It would have to be very secure as the nature of the material shared would be extremely sensitive. An embarrassingly large amount of money. Average lab software for a single user license is $100-$500 USD for a year. If there were a group rate for under $3,000 base, with a lesser yearly cost for security updates, that would be worth it."

2. "Being a long term unemployed person over 50 , I feel the biggest obstacle to completing online applications is the constant re-keying my job history to every single website I go to to apply for work. I feel an app or program that a person will enter the data one time then populate that part of the online application, from the app. This will help greatly and help reduce the discouraging and redundant task of having to do this repeatedlly.

This should be free to the job seeker and maybe $100. or less to a company. This would be a text file so not alot of graphics involved.

Thanks."

3. "Project Manager in Healthcare. Project plan that could be shared with a large audience. Turn a MS Project plan into an editable and readable format for a large audience that doesn't have access to MS Project. Yes, $1,000 per month."

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