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We need to know what people want. We could try brainstorming. But we think generating ideas by brainstorming is a bad idea. It's really just making guesses.
So, please give us ideas or tell us what you need as a user.
P.s. We made a small form (idea.diwank.name) for it but you could just comment here instead.
http://ycombinator.com/rfs.html
http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html
http://androidforums.com/application-requests/
http://www.judegomila.com/2012/01/challengeyourself-in-2012-...
I think you're still going to be guessing though. It's good that you recognise that as you should then move to validate that guess work somehow. Good luck!
My advice? Attend some hack weekends, build lots of stuff, see what draws the eye in demos and decide if you're interested in something related. Rapid prototyping with a readymade set of alpha testers.
We had already been thinking about doing something like this. And we realized that if we made ideas inexpensive and quick to implement, it would make our life easier and our startup more viable (analogy: git branching.)
How would we do that? Select, prototype, distribute and collect feedback. Selection being the key here (no chicken/egg problems, no enterprise software.)
We hope to primarily use 'Show HN's to distribute them and gather alpha users.
Does this sound like a good idea? Should we go ahead?
Find yourself something interesting to work on, that you like, do your homework. I see in your profile that you're an "Idea Architect", "thinker", "creator", well you really don't look like one of these with this message.
Find the things that are either repetitive or hard, or a different way of approaching the problems for these businesses.
Then you have your startup idea and know who your customers might be.
My advice? Attend some hack weekends, build lots of stuff, see what draws the eye in demos and decide if you're interested in something related. Rapid prototyping with a readymade set of alpha testers.
It may sound silly but there are no hack weekends happening around us (We're located in India.) We had already been thinking about doing something like this. And we realized that if we made ideas inexpensive and quick to implement, it would make our life easier and our startup more viable (analogy: git branching.) How would we do that? Select, prototype, distribute and collect feedback. Selection being the key here (…
Work in an industry, any industry, until you get a feel for how businesses currently operate in that space. Find the things that are either repetitive or hard, or a different way of approaching the problems for these businesses. Then you have your startup idea and know who your customers might be.
Though, I'm a little vary of companies with bad work environments lest I end up getting a net negative worth out of the whoe experience.