So I guess Google, Facebook and Wikipedia wouldn't work?
A ⇒ B does not imply ¬A ⇒ ¬B.
How to be 100% sure your startup idea is good
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#22I'm trying to set up Amazon with my account... I can't seem to change from the United States?
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#23I put my startup on the service. One thing I have a problem with is that it exposes my personal email by default. I think you should make it private by default.
Good point. Email addresses are now only shown to the actual user. Also, I made it so if you choose to make your startup stealth on signup, your user will be stealth too.
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#24Tell me I'm wrong, but my concern would be floating my idea out there where someone faster, I'm working on it as a side project, would beat me to the punch and launch before me.
Valid concern or no?
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#25So I guess Google, Facebook and Wikipedia wouldn't work?
"Google" - A search engine that is better than others because it doesn't rely on keyword frequency but rather other sites that reference it.
"Facebook" - A social network that relies on exclusivity through both signup and connecting to others to engage customers. Stickiness is applied via user's updating their status, linking to sites or subjects of interest, discussing upcoming local events, and various methods of social graphing (i.e., how users are connected to the people they want to connect to and the people those connections are connected to).
"Wikipedia" - An online encyclopedia that is created, edited, modified, and updated by Everyone. Accuracy is mostly preserved by off-page discussion and off-site citation. It's goal will be a recreation of the Library of Alexandria [<-- that's the stinger selling point.]
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#26Tell me I'm wrong, but my concern would be floating my idea out there where someone faster, I'm working on it as a side project, would beat me to the punch and launch before me. Valid concern or no?
That is very valid concern. I built in 'stealth mode' so your startup is only available to people you send a special link (with a generated key) to. Check 'stealth mode' when you create a startup.
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#27isn't kickstarter the kickerstarter for startups?
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#28I can't believe how many people are belittling this idea or strawmanning it as a couple of dollars or $5. What the page is getting at is if you can get a few customers to actually commit real money, then you've got an actionable idea on your hands. This is so much better than any wishy-washy "that's a good idea" or "I'd buy that". This is a full fledged, "Here's my money, I am buying this right now." sort of decision…
I agree. Although this may not be the 100% certainty mentioned, it's another good data point. When boostrapping, it often feels like I'm working in an opinion vacuum (I don't count friends cause they tend to be annoyingly kind about these things). I like this idea.
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#29Anybody see the inherent irony in this?
I don't know about ironic. Certainly I can see the inherent recursion.
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#30The danger with this approach is that you'll restrict yourself to products that people know that they want to buy before you even build it. It would be great you could validate every product this way, but sadly many products have to be used before people are willing to pay.