I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas

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Post by graham1776 » Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 11:40 PM UTC

I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas
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Re: I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas

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Post by jlg23 » Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 11:51 PM UTC

This is brilliant! I wish more people would do that.

I'd add a fat, explicit disclaimer that you don't want anything if people actually made a billion with those ideas (but might be happy if treated for dinner ;).

Re: I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas

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Post by graham1776 » Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 11:54 PM UTC

jlg23 wrote: post #2

This is brilliant! I wish more people would do that. I'd add a fat, explicit disclaimer that you don't want anything if people actually made a billion with those ideas (but might be happy if treated for dinner ;).

Thanks so much! I should add that disclaimer for sure. Take an idea and go with it! Dinner is expected after your Series D fundraising round though...

Re: I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas

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Post by d--b » Thu, Jan 21, 2016, 12:07 AM UTC

Kudos for the last one: re-type the masters. It's brilliantly weird and wonderful! Reminded me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Q...

Re: I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas

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Post by captn3m0 » Thu, Jan 21, 2016, 12:12 AM UTC

d--b wrote: post #4

Kudos for the last one: re-type the masters. It's brilliantly weird and wonderful! Reminded me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Q...

+1 for this. It should be a nice project for someone interested in learning JS, even.

Re: I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas

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Post by captn3m0 » Thu, Jan 21, 2016, 12:13 AM UTC

I keep mine on GitHub[0], however mine aren't really business ideas and more like long-term side-projects with very little scope for making money.

[0]: http://github.com/captn3m0/ideas

Re: I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas

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Post by graham1776 » Thu, Jan 21, 2016, 12:13 AM UTC

d--b wrote: post #4

Kudos for the last one: re-type the masters. It's brilliantly weird and wonderful! Reminded me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Q...

I love this one too. How fun would it be to re-type a chapter of Hamlet, a Hemingway short story, a Walt Whitman poem? Also way more fun than the normal "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" prompts.

Re: I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas

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Post by matrix » Thu, Jan 21, 2016, 12:19 AM UTC

Most lists of this type are silly, but for those of you looking for business ideas, this one is actually pretty interesting. But caveat: make sure you get out of the building and talk to potential customers first. Usually there's a very good reason these ideas haven't been executed on yet.

Re: I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas

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Post by peteretep » Thu, Jan 21, 2016, 12:21 AM UTC

I feel like no-one has managed to build a small-business CRM (like his Shoebox CRM) effectively yet. I run a one-person business and I'm still using a colour-coded Excel sheet to try and figure out when I should bug sales prospects.

Re: I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas

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Post by graham1776 » Thu, Jan 21, 2016, 12:26 AM UTC

matrix wrote: post #8

Most lists of this type are silly, but for those of you looking for business ideas, this one is actually pretty interesting. But caveat: make sure you get out of the building and talk to potential customers first. Usually there's a very good reason these ideas haven't been executed on yet.

I'll take this as a complement. I've collected these "ideas" for the last 5-6 years, mostly out of complaints of stupid things I have had to do for my job. So there is a "market" even though the market may only be me. I agree on your second point too, these ideas are sitting in front of everyone's monitors right now "gratis" because most likely have no business value and are better suited for side-projects/hobbies.