I asked something like this not to long ago here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1486240
Sorry, not many willing to share ideas here.
Beg HN: Share some ideas.
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#52Don't look for ideas, find problems (that more people than just you have) and solve them.
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#53You need a customer first.
What interests you? Start big and work your way down. Do you want to disrupt the Enterprise? Or social? What your personality? Do you hate an industry and want to take it down? Or do you care about something so much you want to bring attention to it? Funnel down from there. Let me know what interests you and I can give you 5 ideas.
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#54I want to build a factory for efficiently copying other people's ideas and executing them; that's goal #2, after I execute #1, the project that will get enough revenue that I can put together the team capable of doing #2.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can't emphasize this enough. I've talked to countless people unhappy in their career that can't get out of it because of a family and an addiction to their current lifestyle. They continued to expand their spending as their income incremented, leaving them in a risk averse position. The lesson I take from every conversation I have with these people is live simply and lean even as your income grows, and when you have…
As someone who followed this advice excessively, I have to counter it a bit. Through most of my 20s I lived in the cheapest, shittiest apartment I could find, ate cheap (which in the US means extremely unhealthy) food, rarely went out partying with friends, never went on a vacation, never dated, etc. This kills your network and your health. Frugal is fine, but don't be so freaking cheap that when you're 30, you hate…
> [...] ate cheap (which in the US means extremely unhealthy) food [...]
You're doing it wrong. You can cook your own food for dirt cheap and still have a very healthy menu.
Re: Beg HN: Share some ideas.
#56The only hint I can give you here is that you should look for frustrated people, and then ask them very specifically what it would take to fix their frustration, then go do that, you already have your first customer.
Frustration = a business waiting to happen.
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#57Find some of mine here. www.flairjax.com
The "Continue Reading..." link on your "OK, THIS IS GETTING RIDICULOUS." post sets off malware detection in Firefox & Chrome. I don't know much about WordPress, but judging from their main page, 2.2.1 seems a bit out-of-date.
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#58The best ways to come up with ideas is to get out there and talk to people. Work. Try new things. Some of the best ideas I have ever come up with had to do with what I hated or took up so much time in my work.
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