20,000 Startup Ideas • Hacker News Board

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

#101

Post by davidw » Tue, Oct 01, 2019, 4:07 PM UTC

You could generate even more startup ideas by running a Markov chain thing on these!

* Check with customers to determine their usefulness.

* Inoculate animals against various diseases, such as internships.

* Review product promotional materials, and physical fitness.

* Monitor computer-controlled test equipment, using germicides and sterilizers.

* Transpose music to alternate keys, or to towers.

* Operate farm machinery, such as espresso machines.

* Document software defects, using hand and horn signals.

* Prepare bank deposits, or performing arts.

* Run errands, such as animal dehorning or castration.

* Forecast staff, equipment, utensils, and silverware.

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

#102

Post by akerro » Tue, Oct 01, 2019, 4:08 PM UTC

davidw wrote: post #101

You could generate even more startup ideas by running a Markov chain thing on these! * Check with customers to determine their usefulness. * Inoculate animals against various diseases, such as internships. * Review product promotional materials, and physical fitness. * Monitor computer-controlled test equipment, using germicides and sterilizers. * Transpose music to alternate keys, or to towers. * Operate farm machin…

>* Check with customers to determine their usefulness.

Nice, I always say that customers and testers are source of all bugs!

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

#103

Post by akerro » Tue, Oct 01, 2019, 4:11 PM UTC

eloisant wrote: post #19

Well, considering ideas are a dime a dozen this site is worth 20,000 / 12 * $0.1 = $167. Maybe less actually :)

>20,000

there aren't even 20k ideas...

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

#104

Post by davidw » Tue, Oct 01, 2019, 4:12 PM UTC

akerro wrote: post #102

davidw wrote: post #101

You could generate even more startup ideas by running a Markov chain thing on these! * Check with customers to determine their usefulness. * Inoculate animals against various diseases, such as internships. * Review product promotional materials, and physical fitness. * Monitor computer-controlled test equipment, using germicides and sterilizers. * Transpose music to alternate keys, or to towers. * Operate farm machin…

>* Check with customers to determine their usefulness. Nice, I always say that customers and testers are source of all bugs!

"Demonstrate proper operation of laboratory equipment by inspecting, calibrating, cleaning, oiling, and greasing equipment, and analyze data to evaluate the effects of regulatory limitations on land use projects, such as explaining regulations, answering visitor requests, needs and interests of individuals and groups on basic rules of good nutrition, healthy eating habits and illness prevention and treatment of cardiac or peripheral vascular treatments, such as meteorological, atmospheric, oceanic, paleoclimate, climate, or related structures such as docks, bridges, tunnels, and other specialized material handling equipment such as endoscopes, closed circuit television, still photography, and testing devices, and repair assistive devices or make adaptive changes to equipment or environments."

Seems like this one is destined to fail due to lack of focus.

I generated these with https://github.com/pteichman/cobe - anyone got other markov chain generators to play with? This one seems pretty basic.

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

#105

Post by brokenawipicute » Tue, Oct 01, 2019, 4:15 PM UTC

chrismorgan wrote: post #32

The five shortest ones (11, 13, 13, 13 and 13 characters long): > 874. Carve meat. > 5221. Dig trenches. > 8361. Graft plants. > 10799. Align wheels. > 16441. Shampoo hair. And the five longest ones (291, 305, 308, 317 and 332 characters long): > 6231. Keep abreast of government regulations and emerging Web technology to ensure regulatory compliance by reviewing current literature, talking with colleagues, participat…

How long did this take you? I don't know vim wizardry and I was curious. Took me 4 mins to do the same thing in js console:

1. copy the text 2. split by \n 3. sort by length 4. you got sorted list

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

#106

Post by TeMPOraL » Tue, Oct 01, 2019, 4:16 PM UTC

starikovs wrote: post #98

TeMPOraL wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here you go: (function () { var els = document.getElementsByTagName("li"); var startups = ["A web-based platform", "An AI-powered platform", "Uber for", "Subscription-based service", "Blockchain", "A folder that syncs"] for(var i = 4 ; i Paste it into dev console on that page to receive an instant list of proper startup ideas. The code is GPLv3, and can be trivially modified to generate further interesting startup id…

Cool. But it should be in React Native and AI to raise some money.

Don't know about React Native, but updated the app to generate AI-related ideas (and some others).

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

#107

Post by TeMPOraL » Tue, Oct 01, 2019, 4:16 PM UTC

I wrote an app that turns those into proper startup ideas. Source here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21126901.

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

#108

Post by edm0nd » Tue, Oct 01, 2019, 4:22 PM UTC

davidw wrote: post #101

You could generate even more startup ideas by running a Markov chain thing on these! * Check with customers to determine their usefulness. * Inoculate animals against various diseases, such as internships. * Review product promotional materials, and physical fitness. * Monitor computer-controlled test equipment, using germicides and sterilizers. * Transpose music to alternate keys, or to towers. * Operate farm machin…

Ah yes, the great music towers of 2020. What a time to be alive.

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

#109

Post by adpirz » Tue, Oct 01, 2019, 4:23 PM UTC

What would make this for more useful is to have a list of even mildly _validated_ ideas, even by showing that there are existing competitors or a market for it. Or pointing to a gap where it exists.

Validation is the first step to product market fit.

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

#110

Post by edm0nd » Tue, Oct 01, 2019, 4:24 PM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #99

chrismorgan wrote: post #32

The five shortest ones (11, 13, 13, 13 and 13 characters long): > 874. Carve meat. > 5221. Dig trenches. > 8361. Graft plants. > 10799. Align wheels. > 16441. Shampoo hair. And the five longest ones (291, 305, 308, 317 and 332 characters long): > 6231. Keep abreast of government regulations and emerging Web technology to ensure regulatory compliance by reviewing current literature, talking with colleagues, participat…

My first chance ever to be that guy ! My solution: curl "https://unawaz.github.io/stochastic-hill-climbing/tasks/" \ | awk '{ print length, $0 }' \ | sort -n -s \ | sed 's/ //' \ | (tail -n +11 | head; tail) Updated to remove noise.

Congrats on being that guy!