Ask HN - What's your best startup idea?
Ask HN - What's your best startup idea?
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Re: Ask HN - What's your best startup idea?
#2An online dating site that uses collaborative filtering on large datasets of people (perhaps Facebook as a dataset). Then inform potential couples when they are physically close to each other via cell phone/geolocation.
Re: Ask HN - What's your best startup idea?
#3The only time I can say that we 'scored' we weren't so much concentrating on 'being a startup' or 'making it big', we were trying to solve a relatively simple problem (how to put live video on the internet) in the simplest possible way (1 click download and launch).
Nothing else I ever did before or after came close, but if there is one lesson to take away from that whole period it is keep it as simple as you can.
Re: Ask HN - What's your best startup idea?
#4The Wikipedia of genealogy: a family tree for the entire human race, which everyone can edit and add to.
Re: Ask HN - What's your best startup idea?
#5An online dating site that uses collaborative filtering on large datasets of people (perhaps Facebook as a dataset). Then inform potential couples when they are physically close to each other via cell phone/geolocation.
An unsolicited dating site ?
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#6The one I'm working on :D
(This is true for the duration of any startup idea that I happen to be working on)
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#7Direct person-to-person electronic payments.
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#8The Wikipedia of genealogy: a family tree for the entire human race, which everyone can edit and add to.
Not sure how to monetize this, but the idea seems very cool for me, it would be great to meet my whole family, and how do we get in Brazil :D
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#9The Wikipedia of genealogy: a family tree for the entire human race, which everyone can edit and add to.
I really like that. There really isn't anything out there like this?
Re: Ask HN - What's your best startup idea?
#10An online dating site that uses collaborative filtering on large datasets of people (perhaps Facebook as a dataset). Then inform potential couples when they are physically close to each other via cell phone/geolocation.
An unsolicited dating site ?
No, more like attacking the online dating site from a different perspective. More like "increasing the probability of chance encounters with likely mates". It's not unsolicited because both people have to agree to meet on the cell phone notification.