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In the dental space, the market opportunity has been demonstrated by OpenDental, a GPL competitor in the dental space. Others include Epic and Dentrix.


I wonder if there’s a similar opportunity in the veterinarian space? Still a lot of independent vets out there, and it’s presumably simpler problem as there’s less coding and insurance to worry about.


My son worked in this space for a successful NZ company. It sounded like it was indeed a bit simpler (but still with plenty of complexity) but since nature abhors a vacuum, they added complexity by shoveling in features. I remember one being a surprisingly complex system for tracking the creatures' nickname(s).


> I remember one being a surprisingly complex system for tracking the creatures' nickname(s).

This is amazing.

That great thread on falsehoods programmers believe about names gets a new twist when you add in a variety of species.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29143353




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