In my 20's I thought startup was a quick way to make a million bucks. I had a list of ideas. Copied and spun others' ideas. Some of them made money but none was wildly successful. Now I'm older and money is less of an issue, I realized starting a business is more about finding the people you want to help, working with people you like, and being the right person to solve the problem at the right time.
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#12I love it, I think this one has legs. > HealthWealth Analytics — Bioinformatics Wealth Management Integrating bioinformatics and financial data to provide wealth management solutions tailored to individuals' health profiles, enabling proactive financial planning in the face of potential health risks.
I recently created a GPT-4 system prompt[0] to help me deal with larger problems, and just tried it out on this. Its response is actually slightly useful.
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#13Clearly this just a marketing tool to push the Saas template but it's a good idea for a bit of cheap engagement. Well done.
I bet this already exists but I don't want to verify that.
>> PooPeer — Poop Comparison Community A mobile app that allows users to compare their bowel movements with others, providing insights into digestive health and identifying potential issues
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#14In my 20's I thought startup was a quick way to make a million bucks. I had a list of ideas. Copied and spun others' ideas. Some of them made money but none was wildly successful. Now I'm older and money is less of an issue, I realized starting a business is more about finding the people you want to help, working with people you like, and being the right person to solve the problem at the right time.
This is a great insight. People make a great business - and life is too short to surround yourself with people who you need to drag along with you.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Paul Graham's article How to Get Startup Ideas [0] is this approach. > The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself. > The very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common: they're something the founders themselves want, that they themselves can build, and that few others realize are worth doing. Microsoft, Apple, Yah…
I don't see the difficulty as finding the problem (schlep blindness) or an idea of the solution. Rather, it's always imagining realistic ways of implementing a solution. In payments, for example, the problem is never "building the thing". It will always be gaining permission (whatever it means for your application) of hooking into the system. It might require depositing some amount of capital; and it's usually an amo…
And fixing payments would have required incredible connections, the founders that chose recipe sites knew that fixing payments would have been a decade long ordeal requiring networks they did not have access to.
In some problems, the hard part isn't programming, it's everything else. At least with technical problems you can implement the recipe or streaming site and you're done. But payments was a human problem, requiring people to deal with government, regulation, accounting, etc.
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#16Clearly this just a marketing tool to push the Saas template but it's a good idea for a bit of cheap engagement. Well done. I bet this already exists but I don't want to verify that. >> PooPeer — Poop Comparison Community A mobile app that allows users to compare their bowel movements with others, providing insights into digestive health and identifying potential issues
I knew a guy that wanted to break into health(tech). He made an app where you upload a photo of a poop and rate it on specific parameters so that a physician could make diagnoses.
I hope that counts.
He made bunch of other features but that one was standing out.
Unfortunately making startup in health care takes more than implementing some rules, so guy did not end up running the company - but I have funny story to tell about.
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#17Clearly this just a marketing tool to push the Saas template but it's a good idea for a bit of cheap engagement. Well done. I bet this already exists but I don't want to verify that. >> PooPeer — Poop Comparison Community A mobile app that allows users to compare their bowel movements with others, providing insights into digestive health and identifying potential issues
This is wonderful. I would use this!
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#18In my 20's I thought startup was a quick way to make a million bucks. I had a list of ideas. Copied and spun others' ideas. Some of them made money but none was wildly successful. Now I'm older and money is less of an issue, I realized starting a business is more about finding the people you want to help, working with people you like, and being the right person to solve the problem at the right time.
thats on the left side of the spectrum. on the right, businesses and people are nothing more than balance sheet entries to be traded.
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#19Ideas are cheap. Ask ChatGPT and it will give you dozens. Heck, ask almost any random person, and they will have business ideas. What's hard is (a) finding a good idea, (b) investing the time and effort to make it reality, and finally (c) marketing it successfully.
that is the waterfall pmf approach and its super hard. every step of the way is a struggle with unknowns. its a large reason why the failure rate is 99%.
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#20Ideas are cheap. Ask ChatGPT and it will give you dozens. Heck, ask almost any random person, and they will have business ideas. What's hard is (a) finding a good idea, (b) investing the time and effort to make it reality, and finally (c) marketing it successfully.
I kinda think you’re out of order. Market it. If that gets some traction, maybe it’s a good idea, and maybe try to execute.