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Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by tiborsaas »

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.…

> 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.

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by whalesalad »

This is hilarious. The first one that caught my eye was helping passengers leave and airplane.

Was this an ML project? This looks like the output of a very basic machine learning project.

The commentary here is the best part of this. As (un)valuable as this list may be, it definitely gets the wheels turning in your mind.

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by jorjordandan »

toper-centage wrote: post #37
colinwilyb wrote: post #11

I 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.

I'm confused about 10933. Isn't that just a regular nails salon?

Nails as a service - monthly fee, your nail technician comes to you once a week

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by joshspankit »

tiborsaas wrote: post #71
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.…

> 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...

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by petra »

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.…

Ideas are easy.

Having valuable, proven insights that nobody knows, and are possible to extract value from , that's harder.

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by delinka »

eloisant wrote: post #19

Well, considering ideas are a dime a dozen this site is worth 20,000 / 12 * $0.1 = $167. Maybe less actually :)

I'm sure there's a method we could use to find overlap and reduce the worth of items that overlap ...

"Maybe less" indeed ;-)

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by preommr »

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.…

Having a good idea is at least half of what will determine a successful product.

The problem is that people confuse having an idea with having a good idea. The latter will be something that has things like a justifiable business model, a business plan (seriously, things like path to market and understanding the consumer market are important), something unique that can hook users etc.

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