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I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas

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Re: I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas

#81
I guess most people here have similar lists, and it takes a lot of guts to take them public, thanks for that :)

At some point I started to split them into technical ideas on the one side and business ideas on the other side. That helps to deal with them in different ways.

The technical ideas are usually stuff that would be helpful to have and that solve particular small problems, but on closer inspection they just turn out to be things you can just as well do with existing tools (usually like excel or other tools). Or they are really just ideas for some kind of library or service that could be a small OSS project. Most of those ideas are fun to play with, but the fun would go away if I looked at them in an economic way.

The business ideas are the ones where I would immediately think about competition, costs, etc. They are usually more fun to research and reason about. And for most things that you could think about that don't exist yet, the reason for that nonexistence is often much more enlightening and interesting than the original idea.

Re: I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas

#82
When it comes to implementing ideas, I learnt one thing that has become crucial for me: an idea needs to have a deep personal relevance in order to be able to bring it to its fullest life.

Since I figured out that personal truth, I stopped searching for ideas from the outside. A list like this can still be inspiring, but just because an idea sounds good or seems to make sense, if I don't have any profound interest in it, I know I won't have the energy and drive to realise its potential.

Re: I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas

#83
post #71

Minor point: "open source" is not open source because you have the source. It's open source because it's licensed that way . Adding a public domain or cc-0 license to the page would achieve the same effect.

good point, tho.. i'm really appreciative of lists like this b/c, while i don't use spreadsheets, for instance, a i can immediately see why an "excel imgur" is a seriously good idea. but then doesn't "open-sourcing" w/o a creative commons or similar notice just mean that the first person who blogs or tweets or whatever has a legal record that it's their idea?

honestly dunno and would appreciate feedback from legally-learned.

Re: I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas

#84
post #72

I don't mean to troll, but having ideas is nothing. Of course projects start with ideas but if the creator of the idea didn't pursue given concept - neither should you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csyL9EC0S0c&feature=youtu.be...

i agree with the first half ... tons of my friends knowing i might be able to make mobile apps , come tom me with random ideas , thinking that his contribution to the whole thing would be that "idea" ... what about the rest of it , developing it , monetize it etc etc... it's kind of annoying!

Re: I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas

#85
One of my ideas was to create a site where people can share their business ideas with the world and others can find them and use them.

I would contribute some of my ideas to such a website and there's a good chance that some people might be interested in reading/using them.

Anyone interested in building such a website? :)

Re: I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas

#86

One of my ideas was to create a site where people can share their business ideas with the world and others can find them and use them. I would contribute some of my ideas to such a website and there's a good chance that some people might be interested in reading/using them. Anyone interested in building such a website? :)

I'm fairly sure I've seen several such sites.

Re: I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas

#87

One of my ideas was to create a site where people can share their business ideas with the world and others can find them and use them. I would contribute some of my ideas to such a website and there's a good chance that some people might be interested in reading/using them. Anyone interested in building such a website? :)

Even Google created something similar.. maybe for internal ideas.

Re: I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas

#88
How on earth does this constitutes as open source? So if I write out my research results to the public, it is considered open source? What is the source? The text is not a compiled version of some previous text. And if it where (LaTeX) the underlying idea is still present in the "compiled" version. No saying I don't like his ideas, but there's beside the point.

When open source becomes a layman term for productivity and do "like all the cool guys in the bay", rather than one of ethics and critical reflection on contemporary ideologies underlying technological developments and their affects on society and the world as a whole.

BTW: this comment is open source...

Re: I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas

#90
I know it's blasphemy but I think a really good idea should be kept secret. Smart, motivated people will compete if the idea is novel and compelling.

The origin of the myth that you should blab your ideas is the fact that the vast majority of ideas are not interesting.

But if you have DO one of those rare ideas that is new and interesting, why the hell give it away? Build it and then people can know about it through your nice implementation.

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