How old are some of these? For instance, is #402 even relevant today?
20,000 Startup Ideas
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#82Even 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.…
Well, I think the word "idea" covers a vast range, everything from ideas that you come up with in the shower, to ideas you come up with after a decade of specializing in a specific domain, noticing unmet needs and figuring out how those needs can be met.
What is important to understand is that both types of ideas are useless to the layperson. The former is useless obviously because it hasn't been validated. The latter is also useless however because even if the layperson learns it, they won't have the knowledge and expertise to understand its value, much less know how to execute it.
This is why when someone comes to you and says "I have an idea, but you need to sign an NDA first before I can share it", you should just smile, nod and politely change the subject.
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#83“Perform oral practice periodontal surgery on the jaw or mouth.” Dude! I even have a spare room, we can totally do this one!
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#84"117. Buff defective areas of inner tubes, using scrapers."
what?
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#85Great stuff - however, one thing that is missing is the ability to discuss these ideas in a forum-like medium. This is why I created the GH repo: https://github.com/marcelosousa/million-dollar-ideas.
I might code a script that pushes each item as an issue to the repo to at least allow for that.
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#86Even 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 think that the point of this list is to say "there are lots of starting points, just pick one and iterate on it until it becomes something with value". It's a pretty well-worn maxim that ideas are worthless and execution is everything, but this is another way to present it.
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#872948. Deliver babies.
Here's an expired patent you can take advantage of: https://patents.google.com/patent/US3216423A/en
Succinctly named "Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force"
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#8820 001: collect, organize and rank a library of startup ideas
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#89These are so useless
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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...
Their whole business model seems to be "take quality white box hardware and build a management suite around it". It's not even particularly expensive when compared to white box gear. They already covered the traditional IT MSP model with voice, data and video; so it makes sense they would branch out into facilities management (since a lot of non-tech shops are pulling office IT infrastructure under facilities anyway).