Show HN: Software to give insurance advice like an agent would 73 by chrisplotz | 58 comments on Hacker News. Chris, Dan, and the team at Goodcover here. Goodcover is building a new home and renters insurance co that tries to fix the insurance incentives by returning any unclaimed premium back to customers, keeping a fee instead. Goodcover was YC S17, but off the record due to discussions with the CA government. And we’re still “pre-launch” - starting a new insurance co is hard as it turns out! Part of the technical challenge we deal with is, how do we build software that can scale what an agent does? Although we can’t offer a full insurance experience yet, we thought we’d roll out an advice app ( https://ift.tt/2KCdkuI ) that makes a stab at giving advice like an agent might, but using software. By analyzing your current insurance docs, we can: - Benchmark the coverage you have against what is “normal”. - Provide advice about some specific things that you can fix or at least consid...