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Re: New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet

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Post by tsally »

coryl wrote: post #14
jrockway wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There were plenty of search engines in 1998. Larry and Sergey's implementation just happened to be much better.

The fact thats its 2010 and no one else can get search right shows its pure execution. Google just does it right and keeps doing it right.

This isn't quite correct. Google may have the best search right now, but its competitors could be just as good and it would still take us a while to find out. That's what happens with momentum. Here's an example: in September 2009 Microsoft released a free anti-virus that was at least as good as its competitors [1]. I'd say its just now getting some traction (and that's with Microsoft promoting it). A small company would take much longer to get traction.

[1] http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparativesreviews/main-test...

Re: New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet

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Post by khangtoh »

Got my idea up, hashpic.com. Hundreds of thousands of pics are being submitted to Twitter/etc real time. Get people to #tag the pics, geo location is already there. We do not host the pics, but we classify and help discovery of pics using their hashtags. Think Delicious for pics.

Interested to collaborate on it, or has something to say about the idea, drop a note on the community feedback column on spreadsheet! Thanks!

Re: New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet

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Post by [deleted] »

maxklein wrote: post #9
jayair wrote: post #7

I would be really like to see the HN community do a project collectively. Come up with the idea, design, develop and launch it. It probably sounds more fun than it is going to be. But it should be cool.

The problem is that whoever owns the domain or the password to the repository owns the project.

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Re: New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet

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Post by rmorrison »

khelloworld wrote: post #12
wallop wrote: post #8

Imagine it's 1998. Google doesn't exist yet. Would Larry Page and Sergey Brin have added their big idea to this spreadsheet? My argument is that if you have any idea that's worthwhile, you're not going to publicize it. It might make sense to get feedback from a few friends. But you don't want potentially dozens of other people trying to execute it before you have had a chance to. Brin and Page are good examples of th…

As far as I can recall reading, they did go to a bunch of places to sell their idea. Needless to say, none of the companies took their idea seriously.

There's a difference between going to a potential investor in an attempt to sell your ideas, and putting it on the open internet for anybody to gank.

Re: New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet

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Post by please »

amock wrote: post #19
coryl wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fact thats its 2010 and no one else can get search right shows its pure execution. Google just does it right and keeps doing it right.

Why do you think no one else can get search right? Have you used other search engines recently? Years ago Google had better results but now I don't really notice a difference in the quality of my results.

which other search engines are you using?

Re: New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet

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Post by amock »

please wrote: post #26
amock wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you think no one else can get search right? Have you used other search engines recently? Years ago Google had better results but now I don't really notice a difference in the quality of my results.

which other search engines are you using?

I use Bing, Google, and Yahoo with good results. I occasionally use Cuil but its results are usually not very good.

Re: New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet

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Post by ThomPete »

wallop wrote: post #8

Imagine it's 1998. Google doesn't exist yet. Would Larry Page and Sergey Brin have added their big idea to this spreadsheet? My argument is that if you have any idea that's worthwhile, you're not going to publicize it. It might make sense to get feedback from a few friends. But you don't want potentially dozens of other people trying to execute it before you have had a chance to. Brin and Page are good examples of th…

Google wasn't an obvious success in the beginning.

My take on this is.

If your idea is good you might as well put it out there as you won't be the only one who have thought about it.

If your idea is brilliant it will have no takers as brilliant ideas seem to be less obvious in the now and will only with time and in retrospect be obvious.

Re: New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet

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Post by zackattack »

amock wrote: post #19
coryl wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fact thats its 2010 and no one else can get search right shows its pure execution. Google just does it right and keeps doing it right.

Why do you think no one else can get search right? Have you used other search engines recently? Years ago Google had better results but now I don't really notice a difference in the quality of my results.

google sucks now. all my results are from 4 years ago and are mostly SEO bullshit
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