2948. Deliver babies.
Can you patent motherhood?
20,000 Startup Ideas
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
> ideas are EASY That's true. I see a few things behind the monitor right now. 1) Trees. Let's do something with them, like planting them at scale, maybe mess with their DNA, WCGR? 2) The window has birdshit on it. Let's build window cleaning drones. 3) Ceiling lights. These are really crap make a really smart, well designed one for office environments.
3) Surprisingly enough (to me); Unifi has done just that. https://store.ui.com/collections/led/products/unifi-led-pane...
Not fond of their colour temperature. If they had an option to change it, I'd install them all over my house.
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#143Even 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 That's true. I see a few things behind the monitor right now. 1) Trees. Let's do something with them, like planting them at scale, maybe mess with their DNA, WCGR? 2) The window has birdshit on it. Let's build window cleaning drones. 3) Ceiling lights. These are really crap make a really smart, well designed one for office environments.
There are multiple companies building and selling window cleaning robots. Drones are... terrible for this use case.
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#144I 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.
When I was a child, I really hated having to cut my nails. One of the reasons why I developed an interest in technology, is that I wanted to build a device that cod take care of this horrible job for me. Insert hands, and bam, nails trimmed to the ideal length.
To this day, I've neither seen nor built such a device. Devices to print patterns on your finger nails do exist, however.
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#145To clarify, is this meant as a joke of some sort?
Just not sure if it's just a satirical thing -- like, "Hah, look at the silly word jumbles my script generated!" -- or if it's meant as a tool for something.
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#146I subscribed to a few newsletters that would send me startup ideas and problems to solve on a daily basis.
But somehow that didn't do anything for me.
Some even would offer to connect me to people with the problem, but I had the feeling even with people who would say "I have problem X and I'd pay for a solution" the whole process was still too abstract for me.
I think this has more to do with the business side of things than with talking to potential customers and implementing a solution.
How do I start? What are good first steps if you don't know anyone, don't have a network etc.
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#147"524. Solicit new business." how did i never think of this before...
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#149Unsurprisingly, contains some duplicates:
#11755: Separate scrap waste and related materials for reuse, recycling, or disposal.
#11784: Separate scrap or waste materials for recycling, reuse, or environmentally sound disposal.
#11997: Identify or separate waste products or materials for recycling or reuse.
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#150I subscribed to a few newsletters that would send me startup ideas and problems to solve on a daily basis. But somehow that didn't do anything for me. Some even would offer to connect me to people with the problem, but I had the feeling even with people who would say "I have problem X and I'd pay for a solution" the whole process was still too abstract for me. I think this has more to do with the business side of thi…
Flip it on its head: don’t start with an idea. Start by identifying a group of people you belong to (e.g. “Rails developers”), because it gives you an instant leg up in knowing their struggles. Then research their struggles. Write about them, and solve them. Grow an audience (read: email list). After all that research you’ll have a solid idea of what they already want and buy, and you can create that for them. Plus you’ll have built up an audience to sell it to!
It’s not necessarily quick but it works. Amy Hoy & Alex Hillman were the ones who taught me this strategy and I heartily recommend reading everything they’ve written at https://stackingthebricks.com :)