As for "Don't Be Evil" -- this is something I am concerned about.
Thoughts on any of this is welcome!
Thank you for the questions and feedback, Bastiaan!
I'll answer your question about the MVP / and money together; here is a yet-untested problem to solve:
People are spending hours per day on their phones; falling asleep with them; this disrupts their sleep, productivity, and their relationships.
I haven't yet looked closely at how to solve this but some approaches might be a combination of:
I come from the SaaS startup world and I intend to help kill some inadequate equilibria in the next few years, specifically around the attention economy.
I'll outline what I'm thinking, below, and would appreciate any help from the LW community:
Specific questions I hope to answer:
A continually-improving "nudge tech" that digitally overlays computers/smartphones, and gently changes the quality of life for those individuals and populations who opt in.
Thank you for the comment, Dagon :).
I was/am looking for feedback from a high level; I want to use "nudge tech" to influence the behavior of large groups of people; I'm wondering where large projects like this might tend to fail -- one example would be groups of people could get suspicious that their data is being collected if it's not properly anonymized or provably kept on their phones.
That being said, most people I've talked with these last few days are hungry for specific examples -- I haven't done enough customer research yet to be sure, but I've shared a somewhat more specific example in another comment to Bastiaan!