I am that siberian guy. Who raised $500K at LeWeb, launched at Disrupt, made PassMyWill, MeetCute, and all...
http://leweb.co/blog/how-be-rock-star-evening-leweb
http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/12/quest-li/
http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/02/passmywill-is-a-will-for-your-online-assets-and-passwords/
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/02/14/bored-of-internet-dating-meetcute-gives-fate-a-helping-hand/<p>However, now I’m back in Siberia, broke, and bored. I seem to be relatively creative. I am working on a bunch of projects, but none of them seem to be solving a new problem. The problem is that I CANNOT NOT TO SOLVE PROBLEMS! It just drives me nuts.<p>It turns out that it’s not that hard to solve problems as it is to FIND them! (at least, that’s my case) Here is what I did today:<p>- I went to brush my teeth and noticed that hot water doesn’t go hot instantly from the tap. First it is cold, because it got cooled in the pipe.<p>- “Here is the problem, let’s solve it!”<p>- In a minute I came up with this: http://bit.ly/14KJNy8<p>Then I kept thinking about taps and realized that most of them (at least, in my country) are stupid:<p>- They either have 2 caps for hot and cold and by some transitive way your brain has to figure out how to adjust temperature and pressure with 2 directly irrelevant controls.<p>- Or there is this one stick and you have no idea what temperature it will produce before you actually turn it on.
Then I drew this: http://bit.ly/Y32xsT<p>Here is the thing:<p>1. I have to be solving problems, I don’t have enough of the right problems to solve.<p>2. I don’t have the capacity to produce every solution to every little problem that I find, nor should I be doing this.<p>So I figured, what the hell. I will have some brain stretching and make new friends. Why not, right?<p><i>LEAVE YOUR PROBLEM IN THE COMMENTS or EMAIL IT TO danil(a)danil.cc
I WILL TRY TO FIND A SOLUTION FOR IT</i><p>My field of expertise:<p>- Startup software/hardware products. (consumer problems, those are the best!)<p>- General electronics.<p>- Common sense :-) (you would be surprised how many people lack this one)<p>Danil Kozyatnikov
http://about.me/danilka