I truly admire when someone takes an hint of an idea iterates and iterates and iterates and gets into every nitty gritty detail.
I salute you.
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ezl commented on Ask HN: What are 100K dollar ideas but not million dollar ideas? · Posted by u/abrocks
> Every bakery and independent pizza shop has point-of-sale software now, but how many have back-end software that reads the sales figures and can tell them to order [sugar, flour, cheese] before they run out?
Huh, I basically just spent my entire week working on this for our bakery (and the last 6 months on other software and systems like recipe management, team messaging, online sales, social marketing and more). We're using Odoo which has a lot of the pieces already there, I need need to write a few custom modules to link them up and make them bakery specific.
While I've been doing this, I've been thinking about how most small businesses couldn't do this. Partly technical know-how. But on a deeper level, they wouldn't even think about it, because a lot of people who run small businesses like bakeries are not technical and don't want to be and they can't afford to hire someone who is. And I've been wondering how to solve that problem - or if I'd want to, because as you say, it's not a million dollar idea. But it is an empowering idea for small businesses everywhere.
Can you share more about what you've built? I've got a bakery in Chicago and I'd love to learn more about the things you're building. Contact info in my profile.
ezl commented on A few thoughts on Ticketmaster and Taylor Swift twitter.com/soundboy/stat... · Posted by u/razin
Years ago I saw a post on HN (or maybe reddit) about using reverse dutch auctions for these sort of situations and how it provided the fairest outcomes for all parties.
It was the first time I had ever heard of that concept, and since then I have felt that it really is the best way to create a fair market clearing price for all participants where the maker with a limited stock of product (taylor swift) and the buyers (fans) get to participate.
Edit: oops - I can't find the original article I referenced, but someone else posted this on the same concept which is now on the front page of HN: https://barnabas.me/blog/2022/11/selling-tickets-fairly/
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This seems great for my RC planes and other things! It would be nice if the site could generate a nice sticker-looking thing with a QR code, though.
yeah! Could definitely do that.
I built this years ago, before the pandemic. While QR codes existed, pre-pandemic, it didn't really feel like something that was ever going to get mass adoption.
Maybe just in my circles.
Now, it seems weird to imagine that people wouldn't know. :)
The trailing slash seems to be a typing error.
oops! Yeah, to be honest, i rarely type my own url... should obviously make the trailing slash optional...
> Yes, I am forgetful. If I were smarter, I would just not lose stuff.
It's really not about being smart, some people are just more forgetful and distracted than others.
What I found helps is to do a regular check that you have your stuff with you. Whenever I leave somewhere I check that I have my keys, wallet, and phone.
Yeah, I'm just a careless person in some dimensions to be honest.
Last summer I lost my wallet on a golf course, and twice at bars. I do a "wallet , keys, phone, airpods" check when I leave the house, but it wouldn't have caught those events for me.
This solution isn't failsafe, but for a few hours of work and almost no ongoing costs, it makes it POSSIBLE for people to get things back to me (and significantly increases the odds)
i wonder if the "lite" solution looks something like a chrome extension for gmail.
an auth layer that lives on top of an existing mailbox that just adds the "last touched by michael" or "assigned to sally" and "seen by X, Y,Z" gives me: (A) the security that the underlying layer will exist in a year (B) a light solution to some of the coordination problems