Ask HN: What discovery with commercial potential hasnt become a thing yet?

[saintkaye]

Semaglutides were used for a ton of other stuff before Osempic, took mobile phones a few years before you could hail cabs with them. What insights, discoveries or inventions do something incredible but just haven’t found the right story yet?

It can be anything, a scientific discovery, a psychological one or even just a misuse of a current thing.