Products I Wish Existed, 2020 Edition

A bundled climate change product could be sold to enterprises including carbon offsets, carbon sequestration, solar installations, and other climate services.

4. ADT 2.0: Digital neighborhood watch

3. More SaaS and Dev Tools

TikTok is a good reminder for the generational turnover of social products. While most social networks have not proven to be durable over time (Friendster, MySpace, Orkut, ....) the ones that take over generational shifts or new content types and formats have become massive companies.

9. More RPA and NoCode.

2. New social network.

RPA (basically tools anyone can use to create programmatic APIs on top of legacy software) and NoCode/LowCode (letting anyone build an app with a spreadsheet as a database representation) are the biggest shifts in enterprise software since the cloud.

Being able to measure a physiological change or response allows you to both understand a disease and its progression, as well as to create drugs to treat the disease.

Relatedly, the California wildfires have caused me as a parent to look frequently at pollution data. Even basal pollution levels may impact cognitive function.