Body Doubles for Rappers is the clear winner here! It's not quite as scaleable, but it would be a great boutique service. BDFRAAS
New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet
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#52Imagine it's 1998. Google doesn't exist yet. Would Larry Page and Sergey Brin have added their big idea to this spreadsheet? My argument is that if you have any idea that's worthwhile, you're not going to publicize it. It might make sense to get feedback from a few friends. But you don't want potentially dozens of other people trying to execute it before you have had a chance to. Brin and Page are good examples of th…
Brin and Page are good examples of the fact that ideas in themselves can be extremely valuable and are worth guarding. They're probably one of the worst examples. It was technical brilliance, not their idea, that allowed them to succeed.
What was their big idea in 1998? Search .. Not a billion dollar winner. They only really won after seeing Overture and saying "Damn, we could do way better than those ideala! clowns"
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#53im sorry, i love you all, but this list is filled with some really bad stuff. After reading more thoroughly I'm assuming a lot of it is just people messing around Such as: 100% return lottery. pandora for chatroulette. Wordpress.com 20 years more advanced, for video blogging. Public Takeover - Use capitalism to control the ills of capitalism, one share at a time. Use crowdsourcing and social network effects to take o…
"Wordpress.com 20 years more advanced, for video blogging" is one of mine. I'd love to hear critiques of it. I realize the "pitch" is bad, but did you read any of the other sections?; I'm trying to convey that it's not just a hosted platform for video blogging, but that there's some technological innovation involved as well.
The problem with video blogging is that it doesn't have the same mass appeal as text blogging. As uncomfortable as people are with their grammatical abilities, they still blog, constantly, no matter how much we hope they wouldn't. As for video blogging, the barrier to entry is a lot higher, and self-consciousness about "public" speaking and appearance severely stifle the potential "market".
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
I saw that item on the list and thought that it resembled the website I recently launched: http://www.crunchcourse.com/ Is that similar to what you were thinking? I'd be interested to get your feedback on it.
That fills the same space as to what I was thinking about, cool! I'll have to try setting a course up. I thought of some form of karma might be needed to avoid people joining a class and spamming the forum. But that is probably a issue for later. More communication methods would be good. IRC server with a web client, and per class chat rooms that saved the chat logs. The major suggestion I have at this stage is to se…
Thanks, those are great points. Spam hasn't been an issue so far, which is good. I'm working on a couple of those things already. I'm not sure if it's busy enough yet to generate an active IRC channel for each class, but people are always free to set one up on their own and post the info
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
That fills the same space as to what I was thinking about, cool! I'll have to try setting a course up. I thought of some form of karma might be needed to avoid people joining a class and spamming the forum. But that is probably a issue for later. More communication methods would be good. IRC server with a web client, and per class chat rooms that saved the chat logs. The major suggestion I have at this stage is to se…
I thought of some additional ideas. What do you think? - Invitations - A "materials needed" list for each class - A public forum for general subject discussion - A calendar - Conferencing (with voice, video, images, chat) - Buy books or supplies if needed - For learning languages, there could be a service to chat with a fluent speaker - To make tests, you can use something like Wufoo to make forms for tests - Backgro…
Wow, thanks for the list. That's more features than I have time to add though. For some of the bigger items like the whiteboard, I'm hoping people can use other services in the mean time. Some of those items are being worked on now though.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Wordpress.com 20 years more advanced, for video blogging" is one of mine. I'd love to hear critiques of it. I realize the "pitch" is bad, but did you read any of the other sections?; I'm trying to convey that it's not just a hosted platform for video blogging, but that there's some technological innovation involved as well.
The problem with video blogging is that it doesn't have the same mass appeal as text blogging. As uncomfortable as people are with their grammatical abilities, they still blog, constantly, no matter how much we hope they wouldn't. As for video blogging, the barrier to entry is a lot higher, and self-consciousness about "public" speaking and appearance severely stifle the potential "market".
Great points. Maybe video "blogging" isn't the right term. There's definitely a lot more video content being produced these days, but little innovation in the platforms supporting it.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem with video blogging is that it doesn't have the same mass appeal as text blogging. As uncomfortable as people are with their grammatical abilities, they still blog, constantly, no matter how much we hope they wouldn't. As for video blogging, the barrier to entry is a lot higher, and self-consciousness about "public" speaking and appearance severely stifle the potential "market".
Great points. Maybe video "blogging" isn't the right term. There's definitely a lot more video content being produced these days, but little innovation in the platforms supporting it.
Part of the problem I feel with home-produced video is just the poor quality. A good number of us use macbooks with that awful little camera in the absolute wrong place. It's probably hard to do, but a video camera in the center of the screen would do wonders. And lighting tends to be an issue. I've been thinking of building a multi-pointed light meter (profably in software) and using that to control 2-4 strings of adjustable LEDs that would be to either side, plus maybe the top and bottom of my macbook pro. The idea here is that software could do a good job of adjusting the lighting for better quality.
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#58Body Doubles for Rappers is the clear winner here! It's not quite as scaleable, but it would be a great boutique service. BDFRAAS
Bah, since somebody deleted the BDFRAAS entry, I've saved it here for posterity: http://mhalligan.com/best-entry-from-a-hackernews-startup-id...
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#59im sorry, i love you all, but this list is filled with some really bad stuff. After reading more thoroughly I'm assuming a lot of it is just people messing around Such as: 100% return lottery. pandora for chatroulette. Wordpress.com 20 years more advanced, for video blogging. Public Takeover - Use capitalism to control the ills of capitalism, one share at a time. Use crowdsourcing and social network effects to take o…
Don't you know that dog walking is a big business?
I don't know about "big business" but I could imagine a startup that made it easier for dog owners to find a person to walk their dog. In Boston, most people charge $15-30 a walk depending on length and whether it's a group or individual, so money could be made by handling transactions and charging a small fee.
Would add value by providing customer reviews and rankings.
Re: New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet
#60Imagine it's 1998. Google doesn't exist yet. Would Larry Page and Sergey Brin have added their big idea to this spreadsheet? My argument is that if you have any idea that's worthwhile, you're not going to publicize it. It might make sense to get feedback from a few friends. But you don't want potentially dozens of other people trying to execute it before you have had a chance to. Brin and Page are good examples of th…
As far as I can recall reading, they did go to a bunch of places to sell their idea. Needless to say, none of the companies took their idea seriously.
oh yes I remember that story.
It seems they approached Digital Equipment Corporation to sell it to them for $1M and, they refused so these guys went ahead with their own search engine.