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To be fair, any of those ideas could produce a great startup with the right team behind it… That's the thing, the idea alone is pretty much meaningless one way or another.

Re: Bad Startup Idea - Your next weekend project

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Post by kken » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 8:43 AM UTC

yawniek wrote: post #4

instakill wrote: post #2

Github, but for photography. That's not actually a bad idea.

exists: http://canv.as/

Interesting, I had already forgotton about that one. It looks like it did not really take off in the meantime...

Re: Bad Startup Idea - Your next weekend project

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Post by minimaxir » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 8:51 AM UTC

flexxaeon wrote: post #5

Spotify, but for business Motivational audiobooks? Hmmm....

It'll be all the rage at parties.

Re: Bad Startup Idea - Your next weekend project

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Post by droidist2 » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 8:54 AM UTC

sgdesign wrote: post #6

To be fair, any of those ideas could produce a great startup with the right team behind it… That's the thing, the idea alone is pretty much meaningless one way or another.

I hear people say this often and never quite understood it. The idea is very important. Having a bad idea vs. a good idea is like the difference between trying to sell snow to an Eskimo and trying to sell a glass of water to a man dying of thirst. Given the right salesperson, both can be theoretically done and both can be screwed up, but that doesn't mean that execution is everything.

Re: Bad Startup Idea - Your next weekend project

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Post by flexxaeon » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 8:56 AM UTC

flexxaeon wrote: post #5

Spotify, but for business Motivational audiobooks? Hmmm....

So I refreshed and got "Github for Cooking" which sounded funny at first, until I thought about it. Which then led into a 15 minute discussion with the wife expanding on the idea. Now I wanna build it.