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covfefeblack··on Launch HN: InstaKin (YC S21) - Help immigrants to manage tasks in home countries
1) I'm curious - since what you're primarily selling here is 'trust' and a great deal of trust at that (e.g. care of age-ing parents). How do you plan to create that? Especially for first time users? 2) It seems like a big part of your offering is the end-fulfiller-agent - i.e. the actual agent fulfilling the task. How do you plan to select/oversee agents? (Especially when operating in new locations like India). Can you inspire trust that an agent sent to help an aging parent will not later use information gathered to rob said parent? 3) Do you plan to target governmental/bureaucratic activities - like submitting a form to a bank or picking up and mailing some document. If so how can you inspire the same trust one would have with a family member?
covfefeblack··on Amazon Academy India
As an Indian who didn't make it into the IITs (and instead attended a different school)"The rest are really bad" isn't entirely accurate: - Facilities aren't that much worse than the IITs - Student quality varies - there's smart/motivated and dumb/demotivated/burnt-out kids - unlike the IITs that has a much higher quality bar - but you have both kinds - Faculty is the real difference.. since faculty in India (esp Engineering) isn't geared to research the quality can really vary wildly - Basically - if you're great at what you do - academics isn't a great track in India unlike the US
covfefeblack··on Cities Experiment with Remedy for Poverty: Cash, No Strings Attached
It's also worth asking - is this obsession with nanny-ing the less fortunate worth the cost? Even if say some x% of folks do spend y% of a UBI on booze and hookers - is the cost of preventing them from doing so worth the added cost of setting up a bureaucracy to monitor and police and prevent them from doing so?