Slightly OT, does anyone of you know some idea resources outside our IT bubble, e.g. renewable energy, recycling... ?
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#22It's wild to realize that this list of like a hundred innovative businesses is just what people are launching today, and there will be a whole new batch tomorrow, and the day after that, and so on. Just today's list is thousands and thousands of aggregated hours of work by hundreds of people for speculative riches with good odds of the businesses failing. And the stuff that gets onto one of these lists is just a smal…
I'm honestly glad not to be alone in getting that same feeling.
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#23Very cool. Just too bad ideas don’t matter and execution is everything! I wish the world has more people with technical chops and less “idea guys.” Knowledge of customer and ability to build the minimum viable product is worth more than 100k ideas.
I don't know how you equate knowledge of customer with technical chops. I see tons of list like these with site and coding etc done but no clue on how to build a sustainable business.
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#24Very cool. Just too bad ideas don’t matter and execution is everything! I wish the world has more people with technical chops and less “idea guys.” Knowledge of customer and ability to build the minimum viable product is worth more than 100k ideas.
Never bought into how that saying diminishes the value of good ideas, particularly that of a unique domain-specific insight. I'm rarely excited by "the new Facebook" or "like X, but with AI", but when I hear someone say something like "an app that creates layouts for solar plants, saving energy consultants hundreds hours of work", that tickles my senses. That's a real example from a meetup I went to the other day. Tw…
Exactly, how many thousands of very strong engineers are there in SV and most of them are not coming up with great businesses.
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#25Slightly OT, does anyone of you know some idea resources outside our IT bubble, e.g. renewable energy, recycling... ?
Not exactly analogous but if you are looking for some inspiration, there are some interesting data sets to browse though on data.gov[0], and innocentive[1] has "challenges" in a variety of areas.
[0]: https://www.data.gov
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#26It's wild to realize that this list of like a hundred innovative businesses is just what people are launching today, and there will be a whole new batch tomorrow, and the day after that, and so on. Just today's list is thousands and thousands of aggregated hours of work by hundreds of people for speculative riches with good odds of the businesses failing. And the stuff that gets onto one of these lists is just a smal…
Thanks Claudio for the enlightening comment. It's true and I'm feeling a bit like this myself, going over lots of business ideas daily for the past month or so made me realize the same thing and this is why I've started doing some research into what makes an idea more likely to succeed (or not). I don't want to discourage anyone from the process of creation because the act of creation is inherently human and through all this aggregated creative effort we are progressing and improving little by little and this is how, in my opinion, the site should be used, to improve upon existing ideas little by little. On the other side, knowing that there are a lot of creative people out there spreading their ideas should give one more courage to do the same, this is another thing that I realized. I'm thinking of myself as an insignificant little spec of dust in the galaxy and this thought actually gives me courage. We are condemned to be creative, we are condemned to try and fail again and again and succeed some times, we are condemned to progress.
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#27I wasn't aware that there were so many places/communities that focused on this sort of thing. I knew of only a couple. It's exciting to look through it all. Love the list format without all the fancy images that make scrolling and eyeballing data so difficult. sidenote: opened up the main page to hunt for RSS (or similar). Though none exist, surprised that everything was on a single line. My poor (lightweight) extern…
It's said that an image is worth a thousand words but that it's not always true :) I've kept things simple and without clutter because the idea is that one should be able to parse a lot of data in short time, no one has time to look at a lot of logos that most of the time are not that relevant (for some purposes). Image processing takes a lot of brain computing power :) Sorry for the 'one liner', that's how Gatsby outputs the data.
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#28Kudos for the effort. How do you plan to curate that list? Maybe a git based approach is more future proof, so not everything is on your sholder, like awesome-tech-ideas or so.
Thanks for the suggestion Pedro, I'm testing the waters for now, there is the possibility that I might add curation in the future.
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#29Reading that list feels like browsing an aisle at Big Lots, or those tables of cheap stuff at Fry's
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#30It's wild to realize that this list of like a hundred innovative businesses is just what people are launching today, and there will be a whole new batch tomorrow, and the day after that, and so on. Just today's list is thousands and thousands of aggregated hours of work by hundreds of people for speculative riches with good odds of the businesses failing. And the stuff that gets onto one of these lists is just a smal…
Don't give up on the idea of being an entrepreneur.
Just realize that MOST ideas are iterative and not truly innovative. Nothing wrong with that, but there is going to be a ton of competition when you build a Chrome Plugin that does one neat copy and paste... even if it is very useful.
(Useful Tool Example:) Citationsy for Chrome: Cite anything in one-click right from Chrome
And honestly a lot of ideas might be interesting or funny... but they aren't even good ideas.
(Funny but Stupid Example:) howlongisyourdong.com is now on product hunt: GROW UP YOUR E-PENIS RIGHT NOW :
And some ideas are just wishes for things that obviously aren't going to turn out well in execution.
(Product won't match customer desire Example:) Your mobile app needs a website. I built Flycricket to generate and host a site for you!:
If you come up with an idea that is truly disruptive, that isn't something everyone in your field has been asking for for years. You should pursue it. But it should stand out on a list like this, not fit right in.
Edit: Many people do well building out the extremely obvious ideas that everyone wants. But to do well that way you should be talented, work extremely hard, and be well funded if you want to beat the competition.