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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 miguelrochefort »

danieltillett wrote: post #38
sivers wrote: post #21

Love it. Two years ago I did this, and wrote a little something about it when I started: "Why my code and ideas are public" https://sivers.org/ws I blogged about it to call attention to it for one main reason: I wanted to see if anyone would "steal" the ideas. Because it seems to be many (MANY) people's biggest worry about sharing any ideas: that someone will steal them. See the comments in https://sivers.org/how2hir…

Derek I think you are right about why none of these ideas have been stolen :) As a general rule you don’t have to worry about your ideas being stolen unless you are lucky enough to have a truly brilliant idea [1]. The chance that you have a brilliant idea is very low. 1. By brilliant I mean an idea that checks more than 10 off my list. http://www.tillett.info/2015/08/30/ideas-are-not-cheap/

My idea checks the following: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 23, 24, 25.

Ideas are so cheap people get distracted with lesser ones.

Re: I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas

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Post by Chris2048 »

onion2k wrote: post #70

There's a whole website dedicated to ideas like these: http://www.halfbakery.com/ Some of them are very funny, some might actually make good businesses.

We need this for tech/software dev ideas. Halfbakery is too half-baked, to much dreamy, semi-humorous nonsense...

A real "Is anyone interested in a starting FLOSS project on github?" idea site would be great.

I seem to recall there was on I signed up to, can't remember its name...

Re: I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas

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Post by Chris2048 »

eddd wrote: post #72

I don't mean to troll, but having ideas is nothing. Of course projects start with ideas but if the creator of the idea didn't pursue given concept - neither should you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csyL9EC0S0c&feature=youtu.be...

I sort of agree, but a 'proper' idea needs a little fleshing out to show its value. A description isn't enough.

If I cam e up with "Twitter for cats", but with nothing dwscribing why this was a good idea, or what form it might take (mockups? detail on how it would differ from twitter, or how it would be the same as twitter in a way relevant to cats). those details are the value, and that's what's needed. One line descriptions are far from 'part implemented' - they're not even fully thought-out. A paragraph at least would be better...

then they'd be fit to steal ;-)

Also, if an idea implies considerable implementation (twitter impl is known, but still a large task) it has a higher bar to realise (obv.).

If the impl is somewhat unknown or novel, it also has to be fleshed out more e.g. a POC if it is uncertain if it is possible, or if there are significant barriers that might have prevented it existing already.

Re: I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas

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Post by dboreham »

cookiecaper wrote: post #55
moron4hire wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's pretty unlikely that such a productive person or company would not have their own ideas on which they are already working. The only people who are interested in stealing ideas are people who don't know anything about building things. Lacking that constructive knowledge means they lack the basic foundation on which to riff ideas.

Not really. I didn't tell anyone "my idea", but several people copied it after my site was released (afaik, we were first of kind). One of them eventually eclipsed us, despite our one year head start, by making extensive use of the owner's existing spam and "SEO" network. Their site was a cheap knockoff, and the product was objectively worse in every meaningful category. The only reason one would use them instead of…

Can you give a couple of examples of companies/sites that these folks have cloned?

Re: I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas

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Post by ohitsdom »

sivers wrote: post #21

Love it. Two years ago I did this, and wrote a little something about it when I started: "Why my code and ideas are public" https://sivers.org/ws I blogged about it to call attention to it for one main reason: I wanted to see if anyone would "steal" the ideas. Because it seems to be many (MANY) people's biggest worry about sharing any ideas: that someone will steal them. See the comments in https://sivers.org/how2hir…

Is there a part two of that Jason Fried tweet?

Re: I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas

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Post by Scea91 »

eddd wrote: post #100
Scea91 wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why shouldn't I? What is the reasoning? Sorry, I don't have audio here so maybe it's mentioned in the youtube video.

If the creator didn't find the idea interesting enough to actually put the project into life, it will be probably better to come up with your own project. Of course it has nothing to do with being inspired by someone else.

but this is so faulty. There can be hundreds of unrelated reasons why he didn't put the project into life. And even if he didn't find it interesting enough it doesn't mean he has better judgement than you.

Re: I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas

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Post by Scea91 »

marcus_holmes wrote: post #98
Scea91 wrote: post #78

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Generally an idea can be any kind of know how. You could've invented a faster algorithm that gives you competitive advantage for some time. If you share the algorithm the advantage is lost. I don't believe that sharing all your business know hows is going to be beneficial to you.

Feedback. The benefit of sharing your ideas is that other people get to spot holes in them before you find those holes the expensive way. In your analogy: your faster algorithm is probably not optimal. Sharing it with some people who can give feedback will make it better. Those people are probably not your competition, and your competition can talk to those people even if you don't. If the algorithm is going to make…

You completely dismissed the possibility that you come up with something better than anyone has and by sharing it you just give it to them for free.
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