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20,000 Startup Ideas

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Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by frobozz »

> Shape shoe heels with a knife, and sand them on a buffing wheel for smoothness.

> Adjust felt hammers on pianos to increase tonal mellowness or brilliance, using sanding paddles, lacquer, or needles.

> Review filed tax returns to determine whether claimed tax credits and deductions are allowed by law.

Three adjacent ones there, could be rewritten as:

* become a cobbler

* become a piano technician

* become an accountant

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by nqzero »

tiborsaas wrote: post #35
peterburkimsher wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My FBI guy: a moderated chat app. Instead of just a 2-way chat program, there is a 3rd participant "the FBI guy" who also joins the chat. Every message sent must get approved by the FBI guy before it goes through to the recipient. It should also be possible to send messages to the FBI guy directly. e.g. "Does she/he like me?"

+ the agent can retract words or make edits. retracts are visible, but edits are just counted. this sounds fun :)

and chain the fbi-guys together into a game of telephone

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by TeMPOraL »

starikovs wrote: post #72

A startup idea: an app to generate a startup idea (based on this list).

Here you go:

  (function () {
    var els = document.getElementsByTagName("li");
    var startups = ["A web-based platform", "An AI-powered platform", "Uber for",
                    "Subscription-based service", "Blockchain", "A folder that syncs"]
    for(var i = 4 ; i
Paste it into dev console on that page to receive an instant list of proper startup ideas.

The code is GPLv3, and can be trivially modified to generate further interesting startup ideas.

EDIT: Modified to add a greater variety of instant startup ideas!

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

#98

Post by starikovs »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #95
starikovs wrote: post #72

A startup idea: an app to generate a startup idea (based on this list).

Here you go: (function () { var els = document.getElementsByTagName("li"); var startups = ["A web-based platform", "An AI-powered platform", "Uber for", "Subscription-based service", "Blockchain", "A folder that syncs"] for(var i = 4 ; i Paste it into dev console on that page to receive an instant list of proper startup ideas. The code is GPLv3, and can be trivially modified to generate further interesting startup id…

Cool. But it should be in React Native and AI to raise some money.

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

#99

Post by TeMPOraL »

chrismorgan wrote: post #32

The five shortest ones (11, 13, 13, 13 and 13 characters long): > 874. Carve meat. > 5221. Dig trenches. > 8361. Graft plants. > 10799. Align wheels. > 16441. Shampoo hair. And the five longest ones (291, 305, 308, 317 and 332 characters long): > 6231. Keep abreast of government regulations and emerging Web technology to ensure regulatory compliance by reviewing current literature, talking with colleagues, participat…

My first chance ever to be that guy!

My solution:

  curl "https://unawaz.github.io/stochastic-hill-climbing/tasks/" \
    | awk '{ print length, $0 }' \
    | sort -n -s \
    | sed 's///' \
    | (tail -n +11 | head; tail)
Updated to remove noise.

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by nqzero »

peterburkimsher wrote: post #26
nqzero wrote: post #25

REQUEST FOR IDEA: i have a backend tech stack that i believe is scalable and efficient (REST or websockets). i'd like to prove this out with a demo or app. i can do a pure-js SPA frontend (eg fitno.us) but i'm terrible at UI so it's not gonna be pretty is there a free service that i could provide that people would use at high scale ? there doesn't need to be a way to eventually monetize it required: store data to dat…

My FBI guy: a moderated chat app. Instead of just a 2-way chat program, there is a 3rd participant "the FBI guy" who also joins the chat. Every message sent must get approved by the FBI guy before it goes through to the recipient. It should also be possible to send messages to the FBI guy directly. e.g. "Does she/he like me?"

i like the concept (and it's sort of the inversion of another chat app idea i've been tossing around along the lines of cyrano de bergerac) but i don't see what's going to drive adoption

what's the motivation for a user to use this app vs un-moderated chat ? is it driven by the moderator, eg a parent wanting to limit what their kids can say or see ? or is it one of the 2 chatting parties that prefers to have someone else sanitize content before they have to see it, eg to ensure that they don't get d*ck pics ?

in the latter case, what motivates the moderator to participate ?

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