It's clear to me that very few of the HN'ers have children. As I have a 3yr toddler and trying to help him navigate this somewhat unforgiving ugly world as of now. It's hard for me to find him that isn't ADHD or Corporatized msgs. $100k idea? Make small but meaningful children apps. Just tonight alone trying to steer him away from ADHD inducing mindless apps and videos. I spent $20 more meaningful content for him. I'm looking into this myself as... Necessity is a mother of all inventions.
Ask HN: What are 100K dollar ideas but not million dollar ideas?
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Re: Ask HN: What are 100K dollar ideas but not million dollar ideas?
#202$100k financially makes little sense for any professional because it completely ignores the risk attached - I suspect you are between 1 and 2 orders out (although you are very unclear how much time you are looking at spending). I suspect it is easier to think of it in time invested and returned: if you invest a year of time at a 10x risk, you need to get 10 years of early retirement to cover that risk. That is easier…
Maybe the point isn't about the amount but the type of businesses that do not scale well and interest few people ? And 100k can be huge in some places if you think at the earth scale ;-)
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#203Stand up from the computer and walk out the door, pretty sure you'll find your local problems there. Do local brewers need better distribution to stores? Can you connect local handymen with clients? Can you organize local neighborhood cleanup days, maybe supported by local businesses? You'll be amazed what can be done with the technology of outside, its like the internet just with real people! :) Some call it web 4.0
I like the suggestion. But learning about other peoples problems is hard. How do they even know it’s a problem if they have no idea that it can be solved, i.e. that life without that problem is even thinkable? It’s a bit like Ford’s saying that, if you had asked customers what they want, they’d said they want a faster horse. In an ideal world, i would love to walk you to random people in the street, invite them to ha…
I do not think targeting random people and trying to have a conversation about their problems is a good tactic... May I suggest first to find a community that you care of and participate with actively then problems will rise.
Re: Ask HN: What are 100K dollar ideas but not million dollar ideas?
#204It's clear to me that very few of the HN'ers have children. As I have a 3yr toddler and trying to help him navigate this somewhat unforgiving ugly world as of now. It's hard for me to find him that isn't ADHD or Corporatized msgs. $100k idea? Make small but meaningful children apps. Just tonight alone trying to steer him away from ADHD inducing mindless apps and videos. I spent $20 more meaningful content for him. I'…
Can you give more concrete examples of good apps, i have kids but they allready far from this age ..
Re: Ask HN: What are 100K dollar ideas but not million dollar ideas?
#205Managed Mastodon hosting/professionally run and moderated paid-for instances. There are more people joining now than can fit, and there’s definitely a market for both of these things.
Re: Ask HN: What are 100K dollar ideas but not million dollar ideas?
#206This question would benefit from a few more orders of magnitude. It's rarely good strategy to start on an idea that can't scale.
Re: Ask HN: What are 100K dollar ideas but not million dollar ideas?
#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
The bakery reminds me of my annoyance at a local bakery that often runs out of wholemeal bread by 11am or midday. Don't they realise that if people don't get the product they want when they want it, they'll go elsewhere?
Note that by definition, they sold all that they made. It could be that efficiency -- usually oven space or mixer capacity -- causes them to make it in lots of, say, 50 loaves. If they make one lot and sell out, they make two lots -- but if the second lot doesn't sell out, they go back to making one lot a day. Better to be in demand than taking a loss on unsold product.
The psychological impact of scarcity probably continues to help the daily ru not always sell out.
Re: Ask HN: What are 100K dollar ideas but not million dollar ideas?
#208For months now, I've been thinking and backing off from building a virtual queue for small shops (think barbers, food stalls at events, anything where people queue up) Scan a qr code, get in line. Or via a url or app. Sounds simple enough, useful enough. Friends easily pointed out issues with how this could go wrong and with very little extra time after work, I dropped it. Comments on this thread just stirred it all…
I ended up building this as an open-source project https://github.com/barakplasma/in-person-queue and got intimidated when it came to marketing & selling it (for free)