Random Startup Generator
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Random Startup Generator
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Re: Random Startup Generator
#2Off topic, but in Firefox 33, I get a scrollbar past the "bottom" of the page. Looks like it's due to the margin: 20px; on .fireplace. Setting it to margin:20px 20px 0px 20px; seems to fix it.
Re: Random Startup Generator
#3Off topic, but in Firefox 33, I get a scrollbar past the "bottom" of the page. Looks like it's due to the margin: 20px; on .fireplace. Setting it to margin:20px 20px 0px 20px; seems to fix it.
Additionally off topic, I'm confused as to why Cufon was used for custom fonts, when @font-face is so widely supported these days...
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#4Novel. This is a project of Smore; which coincidentally does incredibly awesome design work with their products. This (ykombinator) is a good example.
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#5Enjoyed playing with this - it would be neat to see a version where the company name and description matched up a little bit more and the description had a little bit more semblance of reality. No startup is going to talk about 'Pedobear' or '/b/' on its splash page.
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#6Enjoyed playing with this - it would be neat to see a version where the company name and description matched up a little bit more and the description had a little bit more semblance of reality. No startup is going to talk about 'Pedobear' or '/b/' on its splash page.
That would be playing with fire, though. The risk of one of these being funded is high enough as it stands.
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#7Something I've always wondered with regard to idea generators like this: in the (extremely unlikely but non-zero probability) event that it actually generates a good idea and someone decides to implement it, throwing up a website with the same copytext that was output by the idea generator, who owns the copyright over the copytext?
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#8Something I've always wondered with regard to idea generators like this: in the (extremely unlikely but non-zero probability) event that it actually generates a good idea and someone decides to implement it, throwing up a website with the same copytext that was output by the idea generator, who owns the copyright over the copytext?
The courts would have to decide.
Reasonable IANAL answer: the person who owns the copyright to (the strings in) the code.
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#9Www.possiblestartups.com Simple alternative
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#10Something I've always wondered with regard to idea generators like this: in the (extremely unlikely but non-zero probability) event that it actually generates a good idea and someone decides to implement it, throwing up a website with the same copytext that was output by the idea generator, who owns the copyright over the copytext?
I think that software output can't be automatically copyrighted. Individual snippets of the copytext might be copyrighted though, if its of a non-trivial length (since it was written by somebody, instead of something).