20,000 Startup Ideas • Hacker News Board

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by davidivadavid » Tue, Oct 01, 2019, 5:16 PM UTC

Geee wrote: post #54

These are not startup ideas, but activities that people do. A startup-idea might be to find a way to make these activities easier. To make this list more useful, there should be two additional datapoints: 1. How many people does the activity impact 2. How much does the activity impact each person. The product of these would be the total impact. Sorting by the amount of impact would give the most valuable areas for in…

Some (most?) ideas might be about how to make these activities disappear completely.

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by utopcell » Tue, Oct 01, 2019, 5:43 PM UTC

this is an outrage: there are only 18,514 startup ideas in there.

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by utopcell » Tue, Oct 01, 2019, 5:46 PM UTC

fencepost wrote: post #57

Even 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've heard multiple times that for a startup to succeed, it needs an idea, a great team to execute it and funding, and that it is enough to have two out of these three. Invariably, the people that say the latter are the ones that have no ideas.

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by xer0x » Tue, Oct 01, 2019, 5:58 PM UTC

homonculus1 wrote: post #17

A few of these are totally ripe for disruption! >51. Conduct raids and order detention of witnesses and suspects for questioning.

Definitely my favourite economic disruption!

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by x2f10 » Tue, Oct 01, 2019, 6:10 PM UTC

toper-centage wrote: post #37

colinwilyb wrote: post #11

I enjoy how some of them run together. 10933 and 10934 as an example: Clean, shape, and polish fingernails and toenails, using files and nail polish. Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.

I'm confused about 10933. Isn't that just a regular nails salon?

Isn't 737 just a fast food restaurant?

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by marviel » Tue, Oct 01, 2019, 6:11 PM UTC

"883: Design computers and the software that runs them."

Seems to check out

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by tabtab » Tue, Oct 01, 2019, 6:12 PM UTC

"Implement dynamic relational" is not listed. Fooey! In fact, it doesn't even contain the word "relational" or "RDBMS".

In general the IT-oriented items seem like variations of "fix my goofed up spreadsheet". Did they scrape the tech support logs?

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by lazyasciiart » Tue, Oct 01, 2019, 6:20 PM UTC

d-sc wrote: post #44

BlameKaneda wrote: post #12

> 10799. Align wheels. Okay. > 11031. Transport the deceased to the funeral home. I think we've found another use for robots.

I’m pretty sure your mocking. But the funeral industry needs to be disrupted. Went through the process a couple weeks ago and it felt pretty scummy.

A lot of it is legal, but there is some change happening. WA recently made it legal to compost* human remains, perhaps the first new option outside of burial and cremation?

*in a very specific way https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/22/us/washington-human-compostin...

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by cortesoft » Tue, Oct 01, 2019, 6:31 PM UTC

jenkstom wrote: post #66

fencepost wrote: post #57

Even 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.…

It might be closer to say that the ideas are like producing sperm. Easy and fun to do, but getting one to an egg requires some logistical expertise.

So fertilizing the egg is getting funding, and a successful exit is the kid moving out at 18.

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by dpcan » Tue, Oct 01, 2019, 6:43 PM UTC

Could a massive list like this help stop frivolous patents from being viable, or granted? Perhaps if all people could just add their ideas to this list, over time, we could prevent the ability for anyone to patent anything if the idea already existed.

Or do I still not understand patents?

Could this list exist at a stop-patents type website where even the patent office could do a quick search to see if an idea is unique and original, or has been thought of easily already and put on big list?