building a startup that survives is so hard that I think we sometimes pick ideas more for viability than for love. since any successful startup takes 10 years, here are some big problems to work on for the next 10.
- spaceships/rockets. if this isn't the first one on the list, I have my priorities backwards. probably not for me, but what fun.
- personal robots. robots that keep you company, that solve things, but mostly that are company. cubix robots for everyone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubix.
- ai something. for some reason, the ways of applying ai to b2c feel more boring to me than b2b. the personal assistant with Scarlett Johansson's voice doesn't interest me. but if I think about complex problems, more "piping" problems, that can be solved with ai, I'm much more interested. (I'm thinking: integration problems, interconnection problems, systems talking to each other.)
- startup infrastructure for latam. this one is fun because I know how complex it is to run a startup in latam. some assumptions: 1) starting a startup in the US is much easier than in latam, 2) to build a startup in latam, you have to build it for all of latam (you can't do a single country, unless that country is brazil), 3) latam has operational complexities the US doesn't when you want to build in the region (payments across countries, legal entities, different regulations). the ideal startup in this space would help with payment processing (stripe for latam) and legal setup. it's the path yuno, pomelo, and others are taking. what I'm aiming at: a structure for building companies that makes it as easy to build in latam as it is in the US.
- ai for government. I think the future of governments is a model trained on the country's information that tells us what the next step should be.
- something something transportation something something. flying skateboards? flying with thrusters? flying cars?
- smart furniture. smart electronic devices.
- gpus. how can we build gpus (or whatever comes next) with natural resources that aren't the ones we use today?