Bring the Inferno OS to the IoT. Unify all the protocols that are out there by implementing 9P2000 on them.
Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
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Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
#392Make a wikipedia, but for implementations of algorithms written in a literate style.
Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
#393Make a note taking app that doesn't suck.
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#394What about a crowdfunding platform for science? Especially for replicating previous controversial results. It seems to me that traditional scientific funding fails at that.
Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
#395Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be fair to Parsons, he built a dramatically more successful and larger business than Cuban ever has. Parsons is also a billionaire and worth nearly as much as Cuban. In terms of sales, GoDaddy is six times the size of the Dallas Mavericks business, and ~20 times the size Broadcast.com was before the dotcom bust.
True. But my sense is Cuban could do it again. Parsons benefitted from timing and is likely more of a one trick pony. Yes, a great and lucrative trick. But still one trick :)
Parsons is doing it again in a crowded market.
Check out PXG.com
Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
#396Make this. Somebody make this. Maybe it's not the obnoxious, catch-phrasey SaaS bulls*t you wanted to do, but it will change the world and you can be proud that you made it. There are millions of blind people in the world. They shuffle around with rudimentary technology. Literally sticks. But they still have ears. Synesthesia. Process the visual 3D world with a camera. Use head tracking. Convert it into an immersive three-dimensional auditory world. A curb sounds like a stream. A tree sounds like rustling leaves. A pole is an electric arc. Traffic lights are pings. Red lights, walk signs all have a distinctive sound replicated in 3D auditory world that maps as closely as possible to the actual world. We have the technology. You can build it. Not only would it radically improve the lives of blind people, it would be a blast for the sighted to design and refine. Like a real life video game that actually matters to someone.
Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
#397And there I thought that the ideas were the easy part :-) Frankly I'm not sure you can succeed if you're just a mercenary (not trying to insult you). To me it seems you're approaching the problem the wrong way : it shouldn't be about doing like everybody else or trying to be successful just because you think it will make you feel good but it should be about releasing this f * idea that is nagging you since years and…
Care to say what the problem is that your idea solves?
Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
#398You should all start a business that provides a way for people who ask questions in public to be contacted in private. Maybe some sort of electronic-mail or private-messaging system.
As Obama says, you need to be the change you want to see in the world so maybe you could paste an email address.
Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
#399i have plenty of business ideas, but have basically been a one man team, which given my full time work status has been slow to say the least, i'm more of a product developer at heart so am looking for business and tech guys to team up with. message me if you're interested in talking, i would not mind sharing my ideas (not only sports related) and we could take it from there. stephen at madsportslab dot com
forgot to answer the questions in your post: in general, here's what i would suggest, seems like the 3 of you don't necessarily need to work for a living which is a great situation (correct me if i'm wrong). what i'd suggest is to find something that you really enjoy doing, for me, i thought about all these ideas that happened to be popular during whatever time, and though i had plenty of seemingly plausible ideas, at the end of the day, i really didn't care too much about those, sure there would be challenges to tackle and things to learn for a few years, but i would get tired of it really quickly. for me, i got lucky and figured it out, albeit later on in life. from a child, i loved watching and playing sports, i used to read the paper every morning as a kid just to look at all the stats, i could figure out the progression of games just from the numbers. obviously you'll have to figure this out for yourselves, but the fact that you seemingly have the financial security issue resolved, you could start thinking about things in the upper layers of maslow's hierarchy of needs, scratch that, even if you don't have financial security figured out, go for what motivates you. i think elon musk is a great example of someone that goes after the big problems even when there are huge precedents or incumbents in the way, this is the stuff that legacies are made from, solving the potentially unsolvable, he's really leaving his mark on society and since time is severely limited, go for the big things that you care about, the proverbial world hunger type problems if that's your thing. i'm sure whatever comes of it will fully enrich your lives and i'm not necessarily talking about money even though there's plenty of potential for that.
Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
#400And there I thought that the ideas were the easy part :-) Frankly I'm not sure you can succeed if you're just a mercenary (not trying to insult you). To me it seems you're approaching the problem the wrong way : it shouldn't be about doing like everybody else or trying to be successful just because you think it will make you feel good but it should be about releasing this f * idea that is nagging you since years and…
Counterexamples: Jeff Bezos, Jeff Lawson(Twilio) contemplated many ideas before starting on one.