This sounds pretty great - would you mind if I ask you a few questions about the kind of work you do? I checked out your personal website and it kind of piqued my interest! My email is in my profile.
All of the clothes will be washed and disinfected as soon as we get them back so I'm not sure how much of a problem that would be. I will look into what kind of insurance (if any) we would need to provide this service though.
Hi HN, OP here. I was hoping to get feedback, not only on the idea, but on the actual MVP. I'd greatly appreciate any insights you guys are able to offer!
This product is intended for anyone who wears casual clothing often and just doesn't want to worry about washing, throwing out old clothes, and buying new clothes.
Disclosure: I posted this yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7442767) but I wanted to give it one more shot on HN. If this is inappropriate, I'll take it down immediately.
To address your first point, I think the hassle of washing clothes, getting rid of old clothes and buying new clothes varies greatly by lifestyle. I guess I'm trying to figure out how many others like me there are out there!
Hey HN, OP here. This is the first MVP of a project I'm working on. Please feel free to ask any questions - I'll be lurking here for a while to try to be as helpful as possible!
I did an internship once with Schlumberger in a field base for a month. I bought more than 30 socks and boxers because I didn't want to be washing mine so I thought I'd just wear it, then wear another and then bash was them or use them for something else.
I also brought a lot of t-shirts (since we would wear coveralls, they were just causal t-shirts).
I didn't know they would cater to us the way they did and my clothes ended up being washed (you just had to leave it in a special net they provide, and someone would pick it and wash it) so I ended up having a lot of clean socks and boxers and shirts oh my.
Bear in mind that when I'm home, I wash my own clothes by hand because they are nice fabrics and would never put them in a machine or at the dry cleaner. But it would be nice to have some casual clothes you could change rapidly.
Would anyone be interested in seeing a "Rap Genius for academic papers" to address the third paragraph of parent comment? To those who aren't familiar with Rap Genius, I basically just mean a place where academic papers can be annotated and explained in plain language by the community. Would you read/contribute?
I think that would be fantastic. I have envisioned that kind of thing often. Something like "autodidact.stackexchange.com" (which doesn't exist), for example. The best explanations could be voted up. For bigger topics, it would not be explanations you're voting on, but rather "learning roadmaps" -- a recommended set of materials in a recommended order that is designed to help one grok the topic.
For academic papers, perhaps people could vote on two dimensions: (1) papers you'd like to see explanations for, and (2) particular explanations that were effective for you.
And yes, I would read the hell out of it, and yes, if there were areas I could contribute, I would do so.
I would find that interesting. Like others above have noted, a lot of papers are written for reviewers, and not with the intention of making it easy for non-experts in the field to understand the concepts involved. It would even be useful to be able to post questions/comments about the parts you don't get and have people direct you to relevant background reading.
Yes. Although the field of "academic papers" is significantly broader with a smaller user demographic than hip-hop, but if you could pull it off I would be an avid user.
I appreciate the quick feedback - I myself would love to use such a service. Just to clarify, I don't have the development experience to build this myself yet (I just switched to CSE from Finance this year) but if anyone else would be inclined to give it a shot, I'd love to help. Otherwise, free idea!
