Hacker News is a community-driven platform for sharing and discussing technology news, startups, and programming-related topics. Through user submissions and comments, Hacker News offers insights into emerging technology trends, industry developments, and entrepreneurial ventures. Readers can participate in discussions, share their insights, and stay informed about the latest advancements in technology and innovation.

Hacker News

In the year of our lord 2017 I had a Brilliant Startup Idea: use a structured database of clinical trials to provide simple, practical answers to common medical questions. I made a spreadsheet with every OTC painkiller trial I could find and used R to run a network meta-analysis, the gold standard of evidence-based medicine. After a few hours searching domains I came up with a name for my project: GlacierMD. I would spend $40K of my own savings buying clinical trials and paying contractors to enter said trials into the GlacierMD database. Two weeks later GlacierMD was dead.

I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea

I think there could be couple of options.
<ol>
<li>Visit Google in Silicon Valley to discuss to collaboration with google.</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li>Build chrome extension to support google search</li>
<li>Directly integrate your idea to google search (Have you ever thought to have additional special tab as “Healthcare” in google search like “News” and “Shopping”.</li>
</ul>
<ol start="2">
<li>
Change bussiness model to donation to help patients and doctors to have best match with each other.
</li>
<li>
API service to support eCommerce(medical, healthcare), SaaS
</li>
</ol>
Unfortunately, great tech ideas can not be succeed easy.
But trying to think in possible different ways can help us a bit.

There is nothing wrong with betting on yourself. I’ve lost a similar amount over time trying things out but it has paid off in the long run.