Request For Startups

eva's experiments Share Here’s a (growing) list of miscellaneous problems I want handled (not necessarily by me). I will keep adding to it. If you’re working on one of the below problems, feel free to reach out. I may also add a thread for solutions. Keep in mind that many of the problems likely have working approaches (e.g. grid resilience is an active research field), but I’m highlighting the problems here because I think they are underrated for their worth. [1] Expectations: 2021 will be more precedented than 2020. Reality: see Context. Context: Topics below were drafted before the events of January 6, the debates on social media de-platforming, and the exodus from WhatsApp to Signal and Telegram. I stand by my below comments, especially my views on ads as a monetization model (Telegram, please don’t). The post was longer than intended, especially Point 2 where I tried to avoid going down the adtech. rabbit hole, but failed. If you’re not interested in me lamenting the demise of products due to ads models, you should go ahead and skip number 2, and read only the