svetha

Thanks for being skeptical...we love skepticism!

We agree that our model could be used for dangerous motives. However, there is little debate about the effectiveness of ARVs. That is why incentivizing treatment uptake is important and not an underhanded method to get people hooked on big pharma.

HMO: I run an NGO and am looking for a voice biometrics service to use for caller authentication that can be subscribed to monthly instead of having to pay a large upfront setup fee or annual fee. Would really appreciate any ideas. Thanks!

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How I can help: User testing, designing focus groups, help with payment integration, and general brainstorming.

Tracked changes for gmail. So instead of replying to an email in text and then changing the color/font/size of words, tracked changes will do it for you similar to how it does in Word.

Love this new direction!

I absolutely love this. This is about way more than spell and grammar check. It is not just proofreading. Now the crowd can be a test audience to help make content more readable and digestible. I hope this works out!

Thanks for the encouragement, your understanding is spot on. I'll definitely keep the HN community posted!

Great thread! I run a nonprofit called New Incentives (newincentives.org) that provides behavior-based cash incentives, known as conditional cash transfers, directly to individuals living on less than $0.30/day in five developing countries. My team is building a geolocation-based monitoring system to determine whether or not the conditions behind our cash incentives are met. We plan to license this technology to large-scale government-run cash incentive programs that cover anywhere from 5-15 millions individuals. Does anyone know if can get a person's feature phone (not a smartphone) to auto check-in and/or receive push notifications? In case it’s helpful, you might think of an application of what we are hoping to build as a child laborer in rural India checking in to school and receiving compensation for every check in to support his/her family. Our goal is for this monitoring system to operate in low infrastructure settings and not have to deal directly with the telecommunication networks in the countries we work in; and if possible, not be dependent upon SMS. Any advice would be very much appreciated!

I know several groups who got in YC and asked for reimbursement for their travel. YC wouldn't offer it if it biased them in any way. They are sort of the "gold standard" in incubators.

Recommendation: Release it as a beta/working product and tell them they are the privileged few to get it and that their usage and feedback will decide the future of this product that might somebody make millions of dollars.

People like to feel important and people like to support that seem to have a potential to rise.

Anyway, spread it selectively among golfers like this till you have around 200 users. By far the best people to try and approach for you might be either the gold course managers or better still, get the caddy's who work there your app and tell them that they can give it out to only 5 people etc. They will slowly build up your user base with their excitement of the product (if they are excited and it's relevant to them). These people, due to our age, experience and optimism will take this as a privilege and will be able to to talk passionately about it. That's exactly the behavior you want from your first 100 users. Also, watch what your users do very carefully and take the time out to talk to them. No shortcuts.