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Re: Bad Startup Idea - Your next weekend project

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Post by blcArmadillo »

flexxaeon wrote: post #10
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.

Funny that this just popped up on the homepage: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5120578

Re: Bad Startup Idea - Your next weekend project

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Post by onlyup »

natejenkins wrote: post #36
justin_vanw wrote: post #13

All actually good startup ideas are bad ideas when they are started. Everybody thought twitter was retarded, and nobody had any idea social networking was even going to be a thing when facebook launched. If you only work on things that people agree seem like a good idea, you are probably the 5th team that is working on it, and you probably started about 3 years too late. This actually ends up giving many real success…

I have to disagree a bit with the idea that no-one thought social networking was going to be big. Were you not around for Friendster? Amongst my college friends it was huge. The problem was that it didn't scale. I logged on frequently until logging-on became too painful. It was the first site I used to reconnect with lost friends, and that was valuable to me. Apparently Google also saw the value in Friendster, as the…

Agree completely that implementation is key. Look at all the open source voting sites. Anyone can start one but Reddit is popular. Why? The way they do things.

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Post by ecclesiastes1-9 »

justin_vanw wrote: post #13

All actually good startup ideas are bad ideas when they are started. Everybody thought twitter was retarded, and nobody had any idea social networking was even going to be a thing when facebook launched. If you only work on things that people agree seem like a good idea, you are probably the 5th team that is working on it, and you probably started about 3 years too late. This actually ends up giving many real success…

I too would caution against ridiculing some of these mashups (or whatever you want to call this site's output) too loudly. I've seen but never used twitter or facebook. To me they are retarded. Still, I have fond memories of my generation's net news and future generations will think similar of todays social fashions.

I suspect the question isn't whether or not the ideas this site creates are good but rather when the time will be right for them.

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Post by mailshanx »

ehsanu1 wrote: post #47
DigitalSea wrote: post #37

Stumbleupon but for knowledge — this could actually work. You stumble knowledge of particular subjects instead of blog posts and comics. Very interesting. Cool idea, lots of fun I've been generating ideas for 20 minutes now.

A side project of mine is sort of a stumbleupon for knowledge. Sort of. It's more like a directed stumbleupon; you get web pages related to the page you're currently on. Good for research, but knowledge-stumbling works too: http://jellly.com

Hey i checked it out, it's a really cool project! Would you mind sharing how you implemented this? I'd really love to know :)

Re: Bad Startup Idea - Your next weekend project

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Post by devcpp »

DigitalSea wrote: post #37

Stumbleupon but for knowledge — this could actually work. You stumble knowledge of particular subjects instead of blog posts and comics. Very interesting. Cool idea, lots of fun I've been generating ideas for 20 minutes now.

Sounds like http://reddit.com/r/todayilearned/

Basically, "I found an interesting article on Wikipedia".

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Post by vlad »

justin_vanw wrote: post #13

All actually good startup ideas are bad ideas when they are started. Everybody thought twitter was retarded, and nobody had any idea social networking was even going to be a thing when facebook launched. If you only work on things that people agree seem like a good idea, you are probably the 5th team that is working on it, and you probably started about 3 years too late. This actually ends up giving many real success…

Those are creative ideas. Someone might point out that Pandora pre-dates OKCupid, and Wikipedia existed long before GitHub. I'm actually curious about "GitHub" but for "Fashion". Right now, I don't see a feature in common between any of "like X but for Y" pairs except for the presumption that Y will be as popular as X or the use of algorithms. In other words, "Microsoft but for Bagels" sounds the same way to me.
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