Ideas are a dime a dozen; Everyone has them. What is rare is the hard work needed to make an idea a reality.
Everyone has ideas, but not everyone has good ones.
20,000 Startup Ideas
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Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas
#112You 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.
(cue Leonard Cohen's masterpiece, "Tower of Song")
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#113Even without the list being suitable for mockery, ideas are EASY . Ideas are like opinions, everybody has one. Take a shower, have some ideas. Go out for drinks, hear a bunch of drunk people talking about the great idea they just had. Winnowing out the chaff (not done here) is harder because not everyone agrees on what's chaff, and building a successful company for any of many definitions of success is harder still.…
Ideas are easy. Having valuable, proven insights that nobody knows, and are possible to extract value from , that's harder.
A thoughtful person can have insights that few knows.
but the really hard part is: "and are possible to extract value from"
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#114REQUEST FOR IDEA: i have a backend tech stack that i believe is scalable and efficient (REST or websockets). i'd like to prove this out with a demo or app. i can do a pure-js SPA frontend (eg fitno.us) but i'm terrible at UI so it's not gonna be pretty is there a free service that i could provide that people would use at high scale ? there doesn't need to be a way to eventually monetize it required: store data to dat…
The traditional answer for people wanting to get free load is to run an image-hosting service:
* Accept uploads.
* Push them to S3 / similar.
* Marvel as you have to filter out nasty images.
* Struggling under the load of hotlinked images.
* Start performing rewrites to serve ads.
* Add chat/comments to try to build a community.
* Get more and more slow and ad-heavy over time.
The process repeats every few years.
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#115Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas
#116You 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.
The Music Towers of the 1960s[1] were pretty intense too
1 - https://news.artnet.com/art-world/taiwan-kinmen-island-sonic...
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#117Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
My FBI guy: a moderated chat app. Instead of just a 2-way chat program, there is a 3rd participant "the FBI guy" who also joins the chat. Every message sent must get approved by the FBI guy before it goes through to the recipient. It should also be possible to send messages to the FBI guy directly. e.g. "Does she/he like me?"
i like the concept (and it's sort of the inversion of another chat app idea i've been tossing around along the lines of cyrano de bergerac) but i don't see what's going to drive adoption what's the motivation for a user to use this app vs un-moderated chat ? is it driven by the moderator, eg a parent wanting to limit what their kids can say or see ? or is it one of the 2 chatting parties that prefers to have someone…
I think it would have to grow (or die) virally. Like GMail in the early days, moderators would get accounts by being invited.
Although there probably is a way to pitch it as a parental control, I think other demographics could enjoy it too. As you say, the moderation basically ensures no creepers or d*ck picks. That will probably encourage more female users to trust the platform, which would certainly help to boost overall numbers.
It could be a means of chatting to strangers, where the moderator chooses 2 people to pair up. That could get interesting. The idea is still pretty half-baked, but I'd like to explore it more, and maybe use it as a testing ground for decentralised chat technology.
For people who are unsure about social norms of chatting to people, such as those with Aspergers, autism spectrum, or who are just plain shy, I think being a moderator would be a great way to learn how to have an ordinary conversation. I'd also want to make the website fully accessible, with text readers for the blind, and automatic language translation so that people can make friends in other countries.
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#119Word Cloud: https://i.imgur.com/2Tjjo6S.png
Nah this can't be right. Blockchain, AI and Machine Learning need to be huge. No wonder no startups are getting funded nowadays /s
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#120Even without the list being suitable for mockery, ideas are EASY . Ideas are like opinions, everybody has one. Take a shower, have some ideas. Go out for drinks, hear a bunch of drunk people talking about the great idea they just had. Winnowing out the chaff (not done here) is harder because not everyone agrees on what's chaff, and building a successful company for any of many definitions of success is harder still.…
I think that the point of this list is to say "there are lots of starting points, just pick one and iterate on it until it becomes something with value". It's a pretty well-worn maxim that ideas are worthless and execution is everything, but this is another way to present it.
it's a cute saying, but I've never actually been shown a success were someone just executed perfectly without any idea to execute from.