What services or apps did you see abroad and wonder: why don't we have them?
11 ekusiadadus 6 8/19/2025, 6:17:16 AM
When I was in India last year, I used UPI. Paying or splitting bills was as simple as scanning a QR code. Every shop had it, from street food stalls to restaurants. It just worked.
In Singapore, I saw how much could be done with the digital ID system. Filing forms, healthcare, banking—it felt like everything was one login away.
In the US, even a short hospital visit can cost thousands of dollars. It made me wonder why some basic things that clearly work elsewhere are missing here.
What have you seen abroad that felt obvious, but doesn’t exist where you live?
As a bonus there are no ticket barriers so no queues and no overheads of maintaining those machines.
Compare that to Italy/France/Spain (those that I know) where, depending where you are traveling to, you have to download, sign in, and give your credit card details to N different apps in different states of disrepair/being barely maintained.
Virtual credit cards (I use Revolut) that I then delete mitigate that, but still, what a mess.
Also: physical lockers with PIN/Code instead of keys (in basically every country aside from Germany). It's just completely bonkers to me, that German train station lockers still use physical Keys EVERYWHERE.