Great lists. Now, is there an algorithm that would mix these ideas for a mesh up for something totally original and market worthy?
Show HN: Idea Minr – Business Ideas Aggregator
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#12Great lists. Now, is there an algorithm that would mix these ideas for a mesh up for something totally original and market worthy?
That's the users job :)
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#13Pretty useful. Suggestion based on me looking at this on a phone (I'm unsure how this looks on desktop!) - left align the titles and the copy for each section. Would make the list much easier to scan. Well done for releasing!
Also make the text a hyperlink, in honor of the 30 year anniversary of this hypertext platform, rather than sticking a small link icon to the side that's an inconvenient click target.
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#14Very cool. Just too bad ideas don’t matter and execution is everything! I wish the world has more people with technical chops and less “idea guys.” Knowledge of customer and ability to build the minimum viable product is worth more than 100k ideas.
Edit: for those who haven’t seen this before (talking to you idea guys), I was shared this formula by one of the top VCs in New York almost 10 years ago.
“ The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20.
The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.
That’s why I don’t want to hear people’s ideas.
I’m not interested until I see their execution. “
I’ve since heard this referenced and repeated by numerous successful entrepreneurs.
Let me know if you disagree.
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#15Very cool. Just too bad ideas don’t matter and execution is everything! I wish the world has more people with technical chops and less “idea guys.” Knowledge of customer and ability to build the minimum viable product is worth more than 100k ideas.
And yet every single day "execution guys" keep asking about business ideas.
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#16Great lists. Now, is there an algorithm that would mix these ideas for a mesh up for something totally original and market worthy?
I've done that before using markov chains. It works, and some of the "ideas" can sound interesting, but I never used any of them to work on actual projects. Fun though.
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#17Kudos for the effort. How do you plan to curate that list? Maybe a git based approach is more future proof, so not everything is on your sholder, like awesome-tech-ideas or so.
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#18Very cool. Just too bad ideas don’t matter and execution is everything! I wish the world has more people with technical chops and less “idea guys.” Knowledge of customer and ability to build the minimum viable product is worth more than 100k ideas.
It takes a whole lot more to build a business than technical chops.
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#19I wasn't aware that there were so many places/communities that focused on this sort of thing. I knew of only a couple. It's exciting to look through it all. Love the list format without all the fancy images that make scrolling and eyeballing data so difficult.
sidenote: opened up the main page to hunt for RSS (or similar). Though none exist, surprised that everything was on a single line. My poor (lightweight) external editor stopped loading the page at the 50k character mark (hard limit for allowed characters per line).
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#20It's wild to realize that this list of like a hundred innovative businesses is just what people are launching today, and there will be a whole new batch tomorrow, and the day after that, and so on. Just today's list is thousands and thousands of aggregated hours of work by hundreds of people for speculative riches with good odds of the businesses failing. And the stuff that gets onto one of these lists is just a small fraction of what gets launched every day!
This site may have been intended to inspire startup founders or side-project hustlers, but it does the opposite for me: it has shown me the folly of trying to make it as one of those!
Going forward I'm sticking to proven, local, likely service-based businesses.
Thanks, stevematzai. Very enlightening site, even if it didn't help in the way you would have liked. :)