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Re: Show HN: Idea Minr – Business Ideas Aggregator

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Post by stevematzal »

owens99 wrote: post #14
owens99 wrote: post #4

Very 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. https://sivers.org/multiply “ 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 sinc…

When it comes to ideas and execution, Derek Siver's multiplication guide is quite the "North Star" in helping entrepreneurs to orient themselves guesstimate if they are on the right path.

Re: Show HN: Idea Minr – Business Ideas Aggregator

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Post by preommr »

claudiulodro wrote: post #20

It'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 smal…

Well, hang on.

There aren't thousands. There's like 200+ on that list right now.

And if I am understanding this right, a lot of those don't seem like they're "daily"

There's also a lot of pointless and silly stuff in there. For example, the one about a microwave that stops before it rings, or the one that filters top level domains (tlds).

An entire section isn't even real businesses, just wishes for one.

There are only a handful of actual serious businesses that can generate money listed here. Something like ~10. Even assuming this was daily, that would be 3k+ new serious businesses per year. That should be way higher, like 10x as much given how low the barrier to entry is for a modern day business (especially in software).

Re: Show HN: Idea Minr – Business Ideas Aggregator

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Post by stevematzal »

yitchelle wrote: post #11

Great lists. Now, is there an algorithm that would mix these ideas for a mesh up for something totally original and market worthy?

Thanks, I thought about it but for now I'm thinking that the human mind is more intuitive in what actually makes an idea applicable and feasible. It's like Kasparov playing chess against Deep Blue, AI might come up with a lot of calculations per second but it has none of the insight and intuition a chess master has. However, there is a startup idea generator at https://startup-gen.surge.sh/ if you want to check it.

Re: Show HN: Idea Minr – Business Ideas Aggregator

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Post by stevematzal »

iamben wrote: post #2

Pretty 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!

Thanks for the suggestions guys, they are all very good ideas for improvement, I'm not really a front-end guy. I thought about making columns but this would probably affect the readability. Hyperlink idea: especially good considering the anniversary :)

Re: Show HN: Idea Minr – Business Ideas Aggregator

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Post by stevematzal »

ghostbrainalpha wrote: post #30
claudiulodro wrote: post #20

It'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 smal…

Don't give up on the idea of being an entrepreneur. Just realize that MOST ideas are iterative and not truly innovative. Nothing wrong with that, but there is going to be a ton of competition when you build a Chrome Plugin that does one neat copy and paste... even if it is very useful. (Useful Tool Example:) Citationsy for Chrome: Cite anything in one-click right from Chrome And honestly a lot of ideas might be inter…

Surprisingly, even silly ideas can transform into great business ideas with the proper execution. A guy became a millionaire in the 70's with Pet Rock; you wouldn't think that anyone in his right mind would buy a rock as a pet but there you go, people are predictably irrational when it comes to financial matters.

Re: Show HN: Idea Minr – Business Ideas Aggregator

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

stevematzal wrote: post #35
ghostbrainalpha wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't give up on the idea of being an entrepreneur. Just realize that MOST ideas are iterative and not truly innovative. Nothing wrong with that, but there is going to be a ton of competition when you build a Chrome Plugin that does one neat copy and paste... even if it is very useful. (Useful Tool Example:) Citationsy for Chrome: Cite anything in one-click right from Chrome And honestly a lot of ideas might be inter…

Surprisingly, even silly ideas can transform into great business ideas with the proper execution. A guy became a millionaire in the 70's with Pet Rock; you wouldn't think that anyone in his right mind would buy a rock as a pet but there you go, people are predictably irrational when it comes to financial matters.

But the reason we remember the Pet Rock is because it was the silly idea that managed to be successful. No one remembers the thousands of floor tiling businesses that were successful or the thousands of silly ideas that were unsuccessful.

Re: Show HN: Idea Minr – Business Ideas Aggregator

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Post by dethos »

stevematzal wrote: post #27
O1111OOO wrote: post #19

I 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) extern…

It's said that an image is worth a thousand words but that it's not always true :) I've kept things simple and without clutter because the idea is that one should be able to parse a lot of data in short time, no one has time to look at a lot of logos that most of the time are not that relevant (for some purposes). Image processing takes a lot of brain computing power :) Sorry for the 'one liner', that's how Gatsby ou…

For parsing this kind of information having a more structured format like the `sidenote` suggests would be a very nice improvement (such as RSS for the new additions).

Re: Show HN: Idea Minr – Business Ideas Aggregator

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

pedro1976 wrote: post #21

Slightly OT, does anyone of you know some idea resources outside our IT bubble, e.g. renewable energy, recycling... ?

Sure. Browse Upwork or Freelancer.com and see what the buyers are asking for. They may be delusional in terms of what they want to pay, but at least those are examples of needs people have that they are willing to spend money on.

Re: Show HN: Idea Minr – Business Ideas Aggregator

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Post by claudiulodro »

preommr wrote: post #32
claudiulodro wrote: post #20

It'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 smal…

Well, hang on. There aren't thousands. There's like 200+ on that list right now. And if I am understanding this right, a lot of those don't seem like they're "daily" There's also a lot of pointless and silly stuff in there. For example, the one about a microwave that stops before it rings, or the one that filters top level domains (tlds). An entire section isn't even real businesses, just wishes for one. There are on…

My point exactly! Legitimate online businesses compete for attention with nonsense and every other legitimate online business. Regardless of the viability of the idea, a new online product is a snowflake competing for attention in an avalanche.

All things considered, it is much easier to get a paying customer with a proven local business idea than an online business.

Re: Show HN: Idea Minr – Business Ideas Aggregator

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Post by owens99 »

thisisit wrote: post #23
owens99 wrote: post #4

Very 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.

I don't know how you equate knowledge of customer with technical chops. I see tons of list like these with site and coding etc done but no clue on how to build a sustainable business.

Not equating them, they are two separate things and the two most important parts of success IMO.
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