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Re: Startup idea list

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Post by Tichy »

yters wrote: post #139
deltapoint wrote: post #3

No. I just like ideas. I have my own ideas, I just think it would be cool to get a list of ideas that people have but know they won't be able to work on. To prove this I'll start by listing some of my own. PG says one point of this site is to make you look like a desirable candidate for a start up so if you can list some good ideas or critique others it makes you look good. Ideas alone have very little intrinsic valu…

As #4 lite, it'd be cool to have a subreddit here for people to submit ideas. Then all us slackers can feel useful, and maybe make some money.

I think Cambrian House and others do that.

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Post by bokonist »

mdemare wrote: post #86
euccastro wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think I read somewhere that in China doctors's salaries are, or used to be, linked to the healthy days per year of their 'customers'.

Measuring performance doesn't work, Joel says: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/oldnews/pages/July2002.html

Joel is basing his argument off the book "Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations." In points out that in situations where the employee gains natural satisfaction from serving the customer, measurement often makes performance worse. The additional effort spurred by the measurement is offset by the distortion to the effort based on what is being measured. However, in the case of doctors, measurement is already taking place, and because it is highly distorted. Thus switching the measurement from number of procedures to increase in health would be a substantial improvement. It may, however, be even more of an improvement to pay a flat fee, regardless of the number of procedures.

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Post by breck »

SocialNotwork.com

A social network for all the people building social networks. It's perfect--now they can talk about how they are building the next Facebook to people that actually believe it can be done! It will also allow you to import all of your existing social networking profiles into one place. Widgets. Video. Wikis.

Re: Startup idea list

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Post by yters »

Tichy wrote: post #161
yters wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As #4 lite, it'd be cool to have a subreddit here for people to submit ideas. Then all us slackers can feel useful, and maybe make some money.

I think Cambrian House and others do that.

That's pretty cool. Do you know whether it's been effective?

Re: Startup idea list

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Post by chubbard »

I know this topic is really already past, but what about a fully up to date web browser. Full CSS standards compliance, JIT javascript, nice developer tools, memory models, full garbage collection, just the web browser we all want right. Pay attention because here is the interesting part. Sell it to Microsoft. This is not a web browser where you are trying to capture the market. No just sell it to Microsoft because they aren't going to fix their browser anytime soon. I imagine they can't. It's too old, and maintenance has become a nightmare. That's why their browser is so behind the times. So, they got a problem, a big one, so someone should fix it for them.

Re: Startup idea list

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Post by mpc »

sbraford wrote: post #131

Problem Scenario: I'm a hacker. That's just how I roll. Last night I built a "digg/reddit for pictures" type of site. No sweat. But now I need someone to maintain/market/add content / etc. It's a huge pain, and I'd much rather stick to coding. What would be nice: Some kind of site/forum/network/etc that connects hacktrepreneurs with talented and/or cheap marketing people. (sometimes you get what you pay for; sometime…

Interesting, basically the opposite of rent-a-coder type sites

Re: Startup idea list

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Post by dpapathanasiou »

mpc wrote: post #169
sbraford wrote: post #131

Problem Scenario: I'm a hacker. That's just how I roll. Last night I built a "digg/reddit for pictures" type of site. No sweat. But now I need someone to maintain/market/add content / etc. It's a huge pain, and I'd much rather stick to coding. What would be nice: Some kind of site/forum/network/etc that connects hacktrepreneurs with talented and/or cheap marketing people. (sometimes you get what you pay for; sometime…

Interesting, basically the opposite of rent-a-coder type sites

FindaBusinessModel.com ?

GetMeClients.com ?

HowCanIMakeMoney.com ?

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