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Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by yellowapple »

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…

Some of these could actually be legit:

> Forecast staff, equipment, utensils, and silverware.

Sounds like something a catering business would need.

> Run errands, such as animal dehorning or castration.

> Operate farm machinery, such as espresso machines.

Both of these sound like things a ranch would need (who says a cattle rancher wouldn't appreciate an espresso while turning a bull into a steer?).

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by nhumrich »

dpcan wrote: post #130

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 uni…

You dont understand patents. You cant patent an idea. You patent a specific way to do something. For example, you cant patent a mop, but you can patent a specific design of a mop, a way to build it. You cant patent encryption but you can patent an encryption algorithm. You cant patent "compressed video" but can patent a compression format. A patent requires a detailed writeup of how to do something.

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by chrismorgan »

brokenawipicute wrote: post #105
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

I know all of this off the top of my head, so less than a minute all up. Well, except the line(".") bit; that didn’t occur to me until I’d done it manually with the help of v_g_CTRL-A, and I had forgotten about the "." argument until I looked up its docs—haven’t used it in a while.

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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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.

The problem with such a pipeline is that it’s not interactive. Now if you had a REPL that would memoize the steps so that it only ever did one `curl` request, that’d be different and useful.

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by pontifier »

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 have lots of ideas, but have very little success. It's super annoying that I'm not able to generate as much interest or momentum on them as they deserve.

Why is it so difficult to move us forward?

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by TeMPOraL »

chrismorgan wrote: post #176
TeMPOraL wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The problem with such a pipeline is that it’s not interactive. Now if you had a REPL that would memoize the steps so that it only ever did one `curl` request, that’d be different and useful.

First,

  curl [address] > /tmp/foo
Then, build up the pipeline starting with:

  cat /tmp/foo |
(And I know this is probably "useless abuse of cat", but whatever.)

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by k__ »

adamwintle wrote: post #169
k__ wrote: post #146

I 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…

Can you share the links to those newsletters? Sounds interesting, thanks!

http://www.oppsdaily.com/ https://nugget.one/

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by jv22222 »

k__ wrote: post #179
adamwintle wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you share the links to those newsletters? Sounds interesting, thanks!

http://www.oppsdaily.com/ https://nugget.one/

Thanks!

The best link is: https://nugget.one/ideas

We have 4,000+ useful ideas manually sourced from people with problems to solve.

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