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Show HN: Idea Generator That Uses YC as Data
- Govindae 9y agoSelf-driving nuclear reactors and currated wine deliveries for developing countries. Those are definitely ideas.
- coolandsmartrr 9y agoSoftbank founder Son Masayoshi striked gold with a similar method. He created a set of flash cards, drew 3 cards, and tried to conceive an invention from the withdrawn keywords. Having drawn "dictionary," "electric circuit," and "voice" IIRC, he ended up with an idea for an electronic dictionary that reads up the words. He hired his professor at Berkeley who was knowledgable in speech synthesizing for $50/hr. When the idea was realized as an invention, he filed the patent and sold it to Sharp, a Japanese electronic conglomerate. Having raised approx. $3 mil, he used that money to start Softbank. The rest is history. Source: Recalling from biography I read years ago
- lifeisstillgood 9y agoIn no way was the clever, difficult or value add part of this the CRC cards - persuading Sharp to buy your patent for 3 million is just one of the things I would like to know how to do :-)
- coolandsmartrr 9y agoApparently, his father attending the negotiations helped the yet-inexperienced Son tremendously.
- tw1010 9y agoDo you remember which biography? I have a strange feeling I've heard this story before but I also feel I might have dreamt it up.
- coolandsmartrr 9y agoIt's in Japanese, called 「志高く」.
- SandersAK 9y agoI dunno if this is satire but it's pretty great. I for one, am ready to invest in DoorDash for prosthetics and Greenshoe (cash for your every day needs) for commercial banks.
- 0xCMP 9y ago#2 is the Federal Reserve. Good luck disrupting that! (Bitcoin is sure as hell trying though)
- lettergram 9y agoIDK how good this is (if it's serious lol): https://imgur.com/a/iRBZh https://imgur.com/a/iRBZh
- shimon_e 9y agoEventually oil workers will be replaced by code.
- icebraining 9y agoSome get recursive :) Ctzen for primary care Ctzen: 311 for the developing world.
- emeijer 9y agoOptimizely for groups and events. A/B testing in the real world :)
- chuckdries 9y ago> Grouper for groups and events ...I'm pretty sure that's just normal grouper EDIT: I can't believe I didn't notice this is satire. This comment stands as a symbol of my ignorance.
- yters 9y agoThen we can automate the creation of these products, a/b test in the real world and feed the successes back into the idea generator. Endless automated innovation!
- moxious 9y agoTo get these things funded, we'll need to append "using deep learning approaches" to all of the business ideas.
- philbarr 9y agoI wrote something like this a while back for creating Enterprise Products. Just take some adjectives, nouns and adverbs, construct a sentence, and then swap out the adjectives, nouns and adverbs at random. I even added a ISO-<random_number>-001 compliant adjective. It came out with stuff like: "An isomorphic enterprise ready synergistic content management data platform for the responsive ISO-5438-001 compliant mobile web." Great fun until I showed it my boss and, genuinely, he started getting ideas.
- jdoliner 9y agoI feel like I hit gold on my first try here: http://i.imgur.com/C7c3gvO.png http://i.imgur.com/C7c3gvO.png Everyone loves plastic surgery, but how do you organize groups to go and get procedures done?
- JacobDotVI 9y agoYou mean brosectomies???? https://www.wsj.com/articles/its-a-vasectomy-party-snips-chips-and-dips-with-your-closest-friends-1500830029 https://www.wsj.com/articles/its-a-vasectomy-party-snips-chi... >It’s a Vasectomy Party! Snips, Chips and Dips With Your Closest Friends >Pals willing to spend a few thousand dollars are getting together for ‘brosectomies’ at clinics that look more like club lounges; ‘I guess it’s from the alcohol, but we had such a great time’
- jdoliner 9y agoLol, thank you for this.
- hood_syntax 9y agoWow, the more you know. Never would I have imagined something like this, but here it is.
- chesterc 9y agoThrough Diaspora of course. http://imgur.com/a/szhmi http://imgur.com/a/szhmi
- chaostheory 9y agoThis actually has already been happening for years in places like Florida and apparently Texas now. There are 'parties' for getting your eye bags fixed which of course is at a discount. http://andersonplastic.com/blog/2016/09/27/botox-parties-a-closer-look/ http://andersonplastic.com/blog/2016/09/27/botox-parties-a-c... When I think about it, I'm surprised that there isn't a web app that caters to this already.
- netvarun 9y agohttp://ycremix.com/js/define_data.js http://ycremix.com/js/define_data.js
- hbcondo714 9y agoI was going to post this too but feel bad pointing this data dump out since this is a cool web app; it just needs better security :) Interesting getscale, sanrights and spinalsingularity all have much higher weights than everyone else.
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- TimJRobinson 9y ago> Interesting getscale, sanrights and spinalsingularity all have much higher weights than everyone else. Much lower actually. They have e-05, e-06 and e-11 at the end. I think the list is from most successful to least successful YC startups, but unsure why those ones are at the very bottom.
- jtraffic 9y agoWeights are inversely proportional to the Alexa rank for each startup's website.
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- nsxwolf 9y agoAnyone want to join my startup or invest? "Scentbird for github issues Scentbird: The thrill of new scents. 30-day supply of any designer fragrance every month"
- tcmb 9y agoThis is not so bad. A grab bag of bugs for you to fix. You get a random Github issue assigned and need to fix it within a certain time. The ultimate challenge to teach yourself new languages and frameworks. There's a pun with Scentbird/code smell in there somewhere, too.
- programmarchy 9y agoStinkbug
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- jonplackett 9y agoThis is brilliant and hilarious.
- SmellTheGlove 9y agoThis is awesome. It's like Mad Libs for the 21st Century! It does generate some decent ideas, too. PagerDuty for food and farming.
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- codingdave 9y agoThe first result I got said that for every condom I bought one would be given to a female entrepreneur in a developing country... then I realized that was the description of the actual YC company, not the satirical bit. I'm really not sure where to go from there.
- cabaalis 9y agoI like to think that I defer to others when I feel I'm out of my realm of knowledge. But I can't possibly see how that is either (1) effective or (2) not-insulting to the recipient. "Here, you can't be trusted to buy these yourself, have a free one so you can get back to work!"
- s17n 9y agoIt's about making condoms available for free to women for whom buying them is a non-trivial expense.
- nickthemagicman 9y agoLol wat? They give condoms to female entrepenuers in developing countries?
- pls2halp 9y agoI found a combinator blog pot on the company, there's also an Oprah interview. From the article: "Your condoms are currently in Whole Foods, Target, and CVS, and you’ve garnered tons of positive attention for your one-for-one business model that donates a condom to a female in a developing country for each one sold." https://blog.ycombinator.com/interview-l-condoms-talia-frenkel/ https://blog.ycombinator.com/interview-l-condoms-talia-frenk...
- rayalez 9y agoNow we can use it to autatically generate simple landing pages, and then do reinforcement learning with the amount of signups they receive as a reward.
- bullen 9y agoBack button please?