Sunday, October 8, 2017

Uber, VanMile, ... it's Here, the Next Big Thing. Now, Go Build It

What?

A platform - for experts on call.

You're a handyman. You're not always occupied. So you offer your services remotely. When you're free, you sign into the app - that's right, just like Uber. You see a call - someone wants help unclogging their toilet - they'll pay you $5 for five minutes of help.

You see a call - someone's at Home Depot and isn't sure what they should buy to solve their home improvement problem. They'll offer $2 for two minutes of help.

You're a homeowner who doesn't want to pay the plumber's trip charge. You're sure you can solve this nuisance yourself for 20 bucks. So you put out a call on the app.

What do you need?

I recommend both sides have a VR headset that also has a camera - that way, you can easily see and show.

I think this is worth doing.

Hmmm... considering 6ya already exists, looks like this needs to be Facebooked - considering how Myspace already existed... what did Facebook do differently?

Oh For a Grown Up Version of Micro$oft Outlook!

How about letting users save *their* preferences for receiving mail from *you* so that, when you're sending a link to a file, Outlook can tell you : "x and 2 others in your send-to list would prefer the actual document rather than the link. Would you like to send them the attachment?"

Why not?

Of course, with Google Drive, things are easy - the link is always available. M$ trolls say they want to be able to look at the file on their phone on the plane and Sharepoint doesn't let them do that. Makes sense.

You know what we need? We need the second coming of Linux Torvalds. We need someone to create a framework for a new society where we use an open source version of Google (and doesn't feed you ads), an os version of Facebook, which doesn't feed you ads and fake news, an os version of AMZN, an os version of LinkedIn. M$ is not the evil empire anymore - at least, not the only evil empire..