Houston #9 - Houston is live on Product Hunt! Also an API for detecting nudes & a social network for memes?
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Hi there 👋 This is Houston's ninth issue and here are the five interesting problems that we found this week:
We don’t have a dedicated social network for memes
My Instagram is now a basically feed of memes but Instagram itself was not built for this purpose. It’s impossible to create memes on Instagram so creators use other tools, import them to Insta and do a similar process for people that send them memes to upload to their accounts. I think 9gag might have been too early to the game but right now feels like the perfect time for someone to solve this problem.
Can we use ML to detect unsolicited nudes in apps like Tinder, Snap, etc.?
I hate receiving unsolicited nude pics through Insta and Tinder. I wish that these companies could just blur out these pictures somehow using Machine Learning or something.
I wish that there was something like Blogging-as-a-Service
So many company’s blogs are literally dead and I know that if a solution to this existed companies would be willing to pay a monthly subscription to keep their blog alive. There are so many companies for which blogging is not a core acquisition channel but they still need to have one so they do a mediocre job. In many cases, they care about blogging but they can't afford to dedicate a person just for that.
The rise of no-code tools has created a need for ways to educate workers on these tools.
The rise of a lot of no-code tools will simultaneously create the need for training knowledge workers on all of these different tools. We can “teach people Retool / Airtable / Zapier / Figma / Clay on one end of a marketplace and create easy ways for companies to hire these people as freelancers and onboard them into existing systems for projects (could even be done through API) on the other end” via Aashay Sanghvi
Managing interns is a pain and I would pay for someone to take care of this
Managing interns is such a pain because you have to spend so much more time per intern than a full-time employee. If you have an intern class, you need to recruit them, help them figure out housing, do intern activities to keep them engaged, etc. It’s basically like hiring a batch of full-time employees and running a summer camp simultaneously. At my company, I would pay for a service that takes at least several parts of this process.
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