What is the most potentially-revolutionary software currently being developed?

Regardless of likelihood to succeed in adoption or impact, what software do you know if with the highest ceiling for impact (for better or worse)?

Looking forward to reading about some interesting projects!

Comments

[Subramanya Chakravarthy]

Clickup.com I really like the pace to make a best version of jira

[Dan Dascalescu]

There have been tons of attempts to bring together project management, group chat and issue trackers. There's been no clear winner.

[Almenon]

You can just say "not Jira" and I would be interested :P

[Omar Sinan]

I don’t know if I can call it revolutionary, but Hey has been amazing. I just love the idea of having a Screener and controlling who can send me emails, I wonder why I haven’t seen this before in order services.

[Davyd McColl]

Nothing new here:

• any reasonable email client can mark incoming mail as spam, which makes you never get it again; getting it the first time can be useful in figuring out how your email address got out there -- when you do sign up for something, take advantage of gmail's '+': set your address as [e-mail] and see how your address is shared
  • this is in no way some endorsement for gmail / google -- you still need the tools mentioned below
• Adblock, uBlock, many alternatives already keep tracking pixels and adverts away
• no $99 fee for things that are already freely available
• no petulant company owner who stomps his little foot every time things don't go his way, tweets about the evils of apple whilst simultaneously putting apple on a pedestal
  • this is just a bonus; not really a deciding factor; there's always some petulant whiner to contend with.
• no Duplo UI -- why is it that I need to waste most of a 27" screen on 1/2 an email?
• 100 gig storage and no archive button? GTFO.

[Filip Němeček]

I think you are entirely missing the point. Reading your posts feels like Hey burned down your house.

[Davyd McColl]

Perhaps I am missing the point, because I don't see $99 worth of value in there. But I'm also one of those people that thinks that stupidly expensive cellphones are, well, stupid, as are expensive alloy wheels for your mac 🤷‍♂️ Convince me of something the Hey does that's honestly worth the cost. I'm all ears, except for my toes, which are really just fingers in disguise.

[Basti Ortiz]

*obligatory Deno* 😂

[Nicolus]

Yeah I was reading the first comment and thinking "what happened to deno ? a few weeks ago every single post on the frontpage was about deno and now it's not even considered revolutionary ?"

[Daniel Schulz]

Forem

(Yeah, I'm smooth)

[Peter Kim Frank]

😎

[Ryan Smith]

🌱

[Saeed Ahmad]

Well @ben , Me, and my team at TrustNet Pakistan are building an immunity certificate holding app that will be based on the blockchain-based back end.

We are confident that it will change the whole immunity certificate issuing process. We are thinking of introducing paperless certificates in a mobile app that will be holding the certificates of that user and they can get it verified on the airports and other places to show the authorities that they have been vaccinated for a certain disease.

Also, we are building it on the developer's favorite web and mobile frameworks i.e React & React Native. So, I am really excited about it. Also, we will be open-sourcing it, so, it makes me more energetic about it.

[James McDermott]

Watch everyone quickly post a link to a project on their Github :D

[Damien Cosset]

The more I read about facial recognition software, the more scared I become of what harm it could do to our societies...

[Max Ong Zong Bao]

Hmm.. I have a lot actually.

• Red Light X Ray Machines - Replaces expensive x ray machines and indirectly reduces medical bills with better clarity in brain or body scanning without the radiation.
• AI voice Artists That can Cry - Imagine the amount of work to make it accessible for people to use voices artists in games, animations, podcasts, songs or movies.

[Magnus Skog]

Man that crying AI ruined my whole morning. That is so awesome and creepy. Thanks I guess? :)

[Max Ong Zong Bao]

Yeah, I was super amazed by it which makes me feel this is super duper cool.

[Adam Crockett 🌀]

This is badass! ptsjs.org/guide/sound-0800

Looked at this 4 times today. Not revolutionary unless sounds based UI became acceptable. I'm talking UI that pulsates to music, dancing menus, what a world!

The real answer would be the <portal> element.

[Dan Dascalescu]

That's a nifty niche library, but I don't see it as "revolutionary" compared to, say, safenetwork.tech, Discovery.earth, deep learning algorithms, CRISPR tools, or BioBricks software.

[Adam Crockett 🌀]

That's what I said.

[Paweł Kowalski]

Face recognition + machine learning software.

It will revolutionize how governments can control us (a glimpse into the future is available in china already).

[Antonio Di Motta]

Or how can recognize dangerous context and try to save human life.... All technologies can be used to help or not.

[Dan Dascalescu]

What would be some examples of that use of facial recognition?

[Antonio Di Motta]

Industrial plant. If there are problems in some area and need to check who is present or able to help.

[Paweł Kowalski]

Read what china is doing with social scoring of the whole population. Pretty Orwellian stuff.

[Antonio Di Motta]

Yep very sad, but we should split technology and use of it. Facial recognition is not more dangerous of ML, blockchain or other.... The problems come from man's choice.

[Dan Dascalescu]

What would face recognition bring here that classic pager duty tech can't?

[Antonio Di Motta]

Into industrial plant, the face recognition could be useful for retrieve information about who was involved into dangerous problems or call someone with right skills and near to dangerous area to help quickly.

[Dan Dascalescu]

retrieve information about who was involved into dangerous problems

Dangerous problems lead to serious investigations, in which humans will examine security/CCTV footage. I don't think they'll rely on automatic face recognition for this. And that technique is already used in China for far lesser offenses, like littering.

call someone with right skills and near to dangerous area to help quickly

How does face recognition help in this case, vs. an employee directory?