If these low-value ideas are worth sharing, then I have 1000 ideas to share.
Looking forward to your post.
I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas
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#112It will be interesting to sum up those ideas into an awesome list[1][2] at Github.
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#113Kudos 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.
Hamlet doesn't have chapters, it's a play. Sorry - pet peeve. It's like people asking if you've 'read Shakespeare'. Makes as much sense as asking someone if they've read Tarantino. Sure, you can read the script, but it's not how it's meant to be consumed.
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#114Earlier 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…
> and the product was objectively worse in every meaningful category.
Except marketing and sales. You forgot marketing and sales. Most developers do. Even if you're releasing your project free and open source, there is still a marketing and "sales" cycle you have to engage, to convince people to spend their time on your project.
If you really care about your projects, you'll stop neglecting marketing and sales.
Regardless, you've not proven that people steal "ideas". You've proven that companies see competitors as market signals. Smart business people don't just jump on whatever some rando in a bar is jabbering on about, even if you're that rando and you're not insane.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe I don't understand what you mean, but I'd argue that if your competitive advantage is that slight, you'll likely get killed even if you make it to market first.
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.
I wouldn't consider an innovative algorithm to be "an idea." It's as much an invention or a trade secret as anything else.
Ideas are cheap (approaching worthless but not quite) - trade secrets are incredibly valuable.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Hamlet doesn't have chapters, it's a play. Sorry - pet peeve. It's like people asking if you've 'read Shakespeare'. Makes as much sense as asking someone if they've read Tarantino. Sure, you can read the script, but it's not how it's meant to be consumed.
You could've read his sonnets...
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#119How on earth does this constitutes as open source? So if I write out my research results to the public, it is considered open source? What is the source? The text is not a compiled version of some previous text. And if it where (LaTeX) the underlying idea is still present in the "compiled" version. No saying I don't like his ideas, but there's beside the point. When open source becomes a layman term for productivity…
There is a precedent for open source data sets being called open source[1]. I've heard it before and I don't have a problem calling it that.
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#120Oliver Samwer, while of course a controversial person, correctly points out that usually ideas are cheap. Execution, however, is where things get real and therefor hard. I tend to think that this is true more often than not.