This looks cool, is it your own project? I've released a while back a similar project [1], and I'd be interested in knowing the technical side of the project (platform, ...).
The main problem will be creating an engaged community, since at least in my case, lots of users come in, do an action once and then they forget about the site until the next time they have something else to share.
Uber has been banned* in New Delhi because they were "misleading customers". Uber said its service is safe for women but without laying the ground base for that, they only rely on summary checks (undergone the commercial licensing process, hold government issued IDs, state-issued permits, and carry full commercial insurance) instead of thorough background checks. That's why a previously convicted sex offender became an Uber driver.
To me it's a case of false advertising and they will support some consequences.
In all honesty, I saw an #Onion tag at the end of the tweet and I thought it's a story made by the onion - had to read twice to see it's Orion, though it has more credibility with my first interpretation.
Can't believe anyone here didn't mention this but I'll be the immature one. Imagine porn on this device. I mean just, you know, all the Scarletts and Jessicas.
It's not immature to make the observation. Porn has been a driver of new media technology throughout history - Magic Leap reminds me of nothing so much as a portable kinema viewer.
Haven't used (and first heard) of any of these tools, but from reading the description it sounds like that you can apply each of these tools in any order.
Nucleus was good for a while but these days Pied Piper can pull off an insane 5.2 Weissman Score. Hooli is going to have to come up with something better because a 2.89 just doesn't cut it today.
"We focus on disease areas with unmet needs; oncology, neurology, psychiatry and rare diseases." This is from their main site and is the key to your question. If I were to have only 3 months left to live using conventional medicine, I would most likely try a drug that could prolong my life expectancy. I see it as a service for terminal ill patients.
The way things currently are, people are dying without access to drugs that are known to work. The approval process is painfully slow.
As a concrete example, there's a new class of immune therapy drugs used in the treatment of melanoma, among them PD-1 inhibitors and Ipilimumab. The data for these has been around for years, they are known to offer some kind of response in about a quarter of patients. In a small percentage of patients, there has been complete response and they've been disease free for years. This is unheard of in metastatic melanoma (stage IV has a 10% 5-year survival rate).
Dying of melanoma, by the way, is not a pretty death, there's nothing dignified or natural about how melanoma kills. It's something out of a horror movie. Dying early of liver failure would is a walk in the park compared to what a terminal patient has to look forward to.
In any case, the point is moot, because not only are PD-1 and its ilk more effective, but the side effects in trial patients have been minimal compared to the destructive known effects of chemo and radiation (or golf-ball sized bleeding tumors cropping up in your intestines).
I invite you to visit any melanoma forum and read the backlogs. You can read through years of people going through horrific treatments, all of which, again, are known to not be effective (biochemo, interferon, surgeries, whole brain radiation once the cancer spreads to the brain), while desperately applying for studies for drugs that are out there and already showing positive results. Then they suffer. A lot. Then they die.
Trials often have very strict exclusionary criteria, leaving many people out - often those who need it most:
> Auden said he was told that in order to be accepted into a clinical trial for the anti-PD-1 drug, he would need to have either no brain tumors or brain tumors that were at least no longer growing.
Even once they are approved, they might not be immediately approved as first-line treatment, meaning you still have to go through the old standard of treatment, wait until it doesn't work (meaning: put your body through the wringer, then wait for the cancer to come back again -- hopefully nowhere important like your brain or your lungs), and only then you have access to the new miracle drugs.
It's easy to make internet comments over some theoretical "gotcha" if you've never been on the receiving end of the stick. But the current system is broken and real people are suffering needlessly.
How in any way does it negate the scientific process to allow people who have nothing but months of pain and suffering ahead of them to give an experimental drug a shot?
You usually don't have only 3 moths left when you have a psychiatric disease, so waiting looks like a better option.
I can't find a well known horror story of experimental drugs just now. But if you want to read a horror story of experimental surgery you can start with HM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Molaison .
It's been a hell of a week for space enthusiasts (myself included) with the Antares crash and recent Virgin failure, so it feels extraordinary to hear that other projects are a success (or will be in 11 days).
The main problem will be creating an engaged community, since at least in my case, lots of users come in, do an action once and then they forget about the site until the next time they have something else to share.
[1] http://www.indiegamehunt.com/ (Product Hunt for indie games)