Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund (2008)
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Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund (2008)
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#2This list is worth to recall and consider because it is actual in our days.
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#3This list is worth to recall and consider because it is actual in our days.
Comments of that post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=250704
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#4For #26, we got chatroulette. Be careful what you ask for.
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#5For #8. Dating, it has progressed pretty significantly with the likes of OkCupid, swipe-based apps (Tinder, Bubmle, Hinge), CMB to name a few. Heck it has done so well that IAC spun off its dating group as a separate business entity with its own IPO of The Match Group.
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#6pg is Nostradamus, this list is amazingly prescient
- #5 explosion of upstream SaaS
- #6 tons of higher-res components of CRM software
- #9 instagram
- #11 google drive
- #22 smartsheet
wonder if the few on here that haven't been solved (wrapper for customer service) are simply unsolvable, or something has to shift for the economics to make way for them.
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#7> 22. A web-based Excel/database hybrid.
Airtable founders: "Hold my beer."
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#8>2. Simplified browsing.
Midori is the simple browser I have ever used.
>17. New payment methods
This one has certainly come true! Cryptocurrencies have absolutely exploded.
>28. Fixing email overload. A
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#9pg is Nostradamus, this list is amazingly prescient - #5 explosion of upstream SaaS - #6 tons of higher-res components of CRM software - #9 instagram - #11 google drive - #22 smartsheet wonder if the few on here that haven't been solved (wrapper for customer service) are simply unsolvable, or something has to shift for the economics to make way for them.
Id almost argue that intercom/drift are making customer service a lot easier. The chat bubble lets you connect with users of your product a lot faster than a phone call and paired with some other softwares can do a lot of what you need.
This probably is more meant to challenge bad customer service like ATT/Comcast but the (non legacy) software world is doing better with this I think.
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#10It's interesting to read the list and contemplate among other things the ideas that have arguably been solved (or at least partially solved) but in ways that weren't obvious.
For example, #1 about RIAA, I'd argue that it was never solved but with streaming stations in particular, it's just not such a pressing issue today.
Some certainly haven't happened (e.g. fixing news).
The list also seems to assume a lot more replacement of incumbents (Craigslist, Ebay, Wikipedia) than has been the case.