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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

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Post by guru4consulting »

donretag wrote: post #197
beachy wrote: post #188

My suggestions: 1. Don't sell to techies. i.e. ignore any ideas about software testing, cloud base load testing, etc. 2. Pick a solid business domain you know really well. There is no substitute for domain expertise. Sometimes things that look really simple are actually mindblowingly complex. And vice versa. But it sounds like you don't have that so... 3. Do something in HR Tech. Every single company on earth compete…

I have an idea related to recruiting, but cannot figure out how to bootstrap the project with products (aka developers). I have a few ideas related to HR, so I like this suggestion. Solve problems.

I would like to have a quick chat with you about your idea.. your expertise in ElasticSearch might be a powerful tool for something. If interested, please ping me

Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea

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Post by guru4consulting »

mrlag wrote: post #173

I have ideas every 2nd day. Here is one: Your own highly individualized, probiotic and noncancerous toothpaste. Professionally attuned towards your taste/mood and hygienic needs. Send a cheek swab. Get the lab results. Taste the samples. Order your own mix. Colorize it. Share recipes online. Order retro toothpastes. Order bloody vampire toothpaste. Mix it at home. Put them on the blockchain. Make toothpaste fun again…

"Make toothpaste fun again" - I'm in :)

Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea

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Post by conductr »

jmnicolas wrote: post #548
conductr wrote: post #512

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Funny, I built this exact thing back in 2007 but couldn't market/sale it. Hope you have better luck &/ now the timing is right!

I'd be curious to know more.

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Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea

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Post by emacsgifs »

ziggyz wrote: post #550
emacsgifs wrote: post #489

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Phones not made by Apple are easy enough to fix. Just replaced the screen on my Mi Mix for about $100 plus an hour or so of my personal time.

I think iPhones are among the easiest to fix, nothing is sealed no mess no glue. The cheap replacement screen for 5,6,7 cost around 20£ and takes around 20min to replace.

should have known this, since it seems like common sense in retrospect.

I'm projecting from impressions I'd made since the Mac book pro became harder and harder to modify and upgrade. I'd constructed a faulty assumption about the repairability of iPhones.

It's never been difficult for me to find someone to repair one of my old iPhones in the past, I just quit on iPhones last year and feel somewhat disappointed with them since the v7s. (I am a fairly recent switcher to Android.)

Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea

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Post by ybalkind »

Qwertious wrote: post #190
ChuckMcM wrote: post #170

My simple advice is to stop looking for ideas and to start looking for problems. Look for the pain, and to do that talk to people. The challenge will be that most people accommodate the pain in order to get something done, but they don't like it. A recent pain point I came across was that 501.c(3) organizations are good at organizing but often poor at "the Internet". That suggested that if you talked to a half dozen…

>My simple advice is to stop looking for ideas and to start looking for problems. I concur, and add that HN could really help OP by complaining about random stuff here. Just complain about the first thing that comes to mind that's been bugging you, OP will really appreciate it!

As a manager at a large corporate the process for incurring expenses drives me nuts. There is an annoying approval process, expenses have to be logged, I have to look up the expense policy, justify the expense, track it against budget etc etc. Often there is modest expense I want to incur and I know the business is generally in favour, but the expense process is just so cumbersome and confusing that I dont bother. There must be a better way. Even though I have a corporate credit card I still have to keep invoices and assign each credit card expense to the right spending code etc.. Arggg, its making my blood boil just writing about it, somebody fix this please.

Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea

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Post by osmyn »

reitanqild wrote: post #421
Qwertious wrote: post #190

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>My simple advice is to stop looking for ideas and to start looking for problems. I concur, and add that HN could really help OP by complaining about random stuff here. Just complain about the first thing that comes to mind that's been bugging you, OP will really appreciate it!

Easily fixable phones and laptops. My phones and laptops are small enough and lightweight enough. Making them bulletproof is too expensive. But making them easier to fix, documenting the process and authorizing repair shops would do be great. PS: I don't need to be able to hot-swap parts. PPS: pro models from Dell and HP at least are often quite easy to disassemble and fix and I think you can often source parts from…

I love how my Raspberri Pi I can just swap out the SD card and have a completely different OS. As a software developer, it would be awesome if I could do that on my laptop or phone.

Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea

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Post by crobertsbmw »

rmetzler wrote: post #438
oelmekki wrote: post #250

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Hah, good point. I don't like to rant usually, but this is for the good cause. I'm annoyed I feel the internet is turning more and more hateful. I'm annoyed writing and fixing tests takes half of my time when writing code. I'm annoyed business people only see the difference of salary asked and not what experience brings when having to choose between a junior dev and a senior one.

> I'm annoyed writing and fixing tests takes half of my time when writing code. Then just don't write tests and wait for what happens, when you find a bug 6 month into production. ;-)

TBH, that's what I do. Most of the time the bug is insignificant enough that it doesn't really matter. Every once in a while I am freaking out trying to get an update through the app store at 1:00 am. For me, it's worth the tradeoff.

Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea

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Post by seanMeverett »

I have products that need built for days. It all starts with science. You are in an incredible position that I never have been. Had to self fund everything myself and all ultimately failed due to lack of capital even with traction. Hold on to what you have. It’s the most valuable thing ever.
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