The 6th idea is great.
New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet
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#62makes me feel bad for PG and and YC team: reading just those 20 or so responses is painful.
Hmm. I think your comment sets a bad tone for the discussion, especially as the top-rated comment. While I wouldn't want to back many of these startups as they're written, I think some of them have potential to be grown into a viable business idea, and dismissing them all in one shot just biases the whole thread negatively.
I guess I'd just rather read constructive posts first.
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#63Imagine 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…
Great hackers see more solutions to big problems than they can ever possibly execute. Why hoard ideas?
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#65im sorry, i love you all, but this list is filled with some really bad stuff. After reading more thoroughly I'm assuming a lot of it is just people messing around Such as: 100% return lottery. pandora for chatroulette. Wordpress.com 20 years more advanced, for video blogging. Public Takeover - Use capitalism to control the ills of capitalism, one share at a time. Use crowdsourcing and social network effects to take o…
Pandora for chat roulette is a bad idea? How can a recommendation engine for people possibly be worse than random?
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#66I don't mean to be pessimistic here, but a 50MM plant to recover phosphorous from water or breeding hypo-allergenic dust mites?
What's pessimistic about them? They're hundred billion dollar scale problems, surely one could recover some of that. Currently desalination plants are even more expensive, and they don't do anything with the waste product. And breeding isn't very expensive at all, though with dust mites it's tricky because they're quite small and transparent to visible light.
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#67makes me feel bad for PG and and YC team: reading just those 20 or so responses is painful.
Don't eat the vegetables, they grow in dirt!
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#68makes me feel bad for PG and and YC team: reading just those 20 or so responses is painful.
Hmm. I think your comment sets a bad tone for the discussion, especially as the top-rated comment. While I wouldn't want to back many of these startups as they're written, I think some of them have potential to be grown into a viable business idea, and dismissing them all in one shot just biases the whole thread negatively. I guess I'd just rather read constructive posts first.
Best way to get easy karma: say hey-thats-not-fair to the cynical posts (regardless of hilarity.)
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#69im sorry, i love you all, but this list is filled with some really bad stuff. After reading more thoroughly I'm assuming a lot of it is just people messing around Such as: 100% return lottery. pandora for chatroulette. Wordpress.com 20 years more advanced, for video blogging. Public Takeover - Use capitalism to control the ills of capitalism, one share at a time. Use crowdsourcing and social network effects to take o…
Pandora for chat roulette is a bad idea? How can a recommendation engine for people possibly be worse than random?
Its not worse, it's just a silly idea that isn't worth the time needed to make it
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#70Inspired by the recent submission from cdixon ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1190710 ) regarding developing new startup ideas and being the "opposite of secret", I thought we could put the theory into practice. Feel free to add your own ideas and leave feedback on the others. If you see something you like, get in contact and make it happen!
Good start, but I think this highlights the reason why around these parts "ideas are worthless". Very very very few people are inclined to actually give 2 specks of a damn about some sentence written in some cell on some spreadsheet.
What I'm getting at:
Show don't tell.
So how about a list of products/service prototypes that people are actually building, and making that a starting point. I'd much rather take 10 seconds to click around on an app, than read text in a cell as noted above.