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Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard. Low cost stickers that can be activated then placed on items in the refrigerator to indicate how much time has passed. Sho

Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard. Low cost stickers that can be activated then placed on items in the refrigerator to indicate how much time has passed. Should be feasible to develop for a qualified team and would save People a lot of food. Maybe the design exists and just needs proper marketing. Easy, cheap, hassle free batch scanning of photographs. How many people have boxes and boxes of family photos that they only see once every 5-10 years? Get those things digitized and organized now cheaply and easily. You know those people who fly over peoples houses, take nice photos, then try to sell them to the owner? Why not offer people a digital copy of their houses/property? Lots of applications for that. From games to interior decorating to planning renovations. Methane can be produced using electricity from solar power. Which could be run in cars without much modification. This could reduce fossil fuel usage without having wait for internal combustion engine vehicles to be retired. Maybe a unit installed at home could provide fuel for an individuals commute at near zero cost after it's paid off? If not maybe large facilities could make and ship the fuel to be sold at gas stations. Some people would be willing to pay a premium for liquid fuel produced by solar(At least I would). It could become even more desirable if proper carbon regulations ever kick in. A wikipedia for DIY things. Instructibles sucks. It would be nice to have a well organized and very large corpus of information on how to do things from the very general to the very specific. From various methods to repair a hole in sheet rock to replacing brake pads on a 1997 Volvo to gardening with lots of various individual plans for different home projects like Halloween costumes, knitting, and woodworking. The hard part is getting a large community of people to contribute to the making of it. I could go on all day. Anyone can. figuring out which idea in the sea of available ideas floating around, then executing it. That's the hard thing.

breakyerself 9y ago
Ooh. How about a stock market for making movies? You can invest 500 dollars in a 10,000,000 dollar movie and get 1/19,000th of the actual profits. Anyone can become a movie producer. It makes secret plot twist impossible, but could be good for many kinds of movies.
- breakyerself 9y ago
  At home anaerobic digesters that turn food, yard, and bodily waste into fuel to heat water/furnace/make electricity, etc
icebraining 9y ago
Right, but the question asks about good ideas, and that's a problem - how do you tell it's good? Yeah, I know about market validation, but you can't literally validate every idea you come up with. Especially if you have to build an MVP to do it.
- breakyerself 9y ago
  You can't know for certain if an idea is good ahead of time. You can identify some bad ideas that look good with a little research, but the only sure way to tell is to do the thing. Hell even if it is a good idea they might just fail to execute it properly. I wonder if they're just too risk averse. Looking for a sure thing when there's no such thing.
  - icebraining 9y ago
    For me, I wouldn't say it's looking for a sure thing, but feeling like I'm probably wasting my time. Like you said, one can easily come up with dozens, possibly hundreds of ideas. Chances are most are duds. Without any good way of ranking them, what are the chances you'll hit on a good one? Doing this kind of "idea lottery" just sounds like a recipe for frustration.
    - breakyerself 9y ago
      For them it's got to be frustrating. It's fun for me. I like brainstorming.
- niko001 9y ago
  I do "idea validation as a service" by asking the target group of an idea what they think about it: http://www.ideacheck.io http://www.ideacheck.io

breakyerself 9y ago

Ooh. How about a stock market for making movies? You can invest 500 dollars in a 10,000,000 dollar movie and get 1/19,000th of the actual profits. Anyone can become a movie producer. It makes secret plot twist impossible, but could be good for many kinds of movies.

breakyerself 9y ago
At home anaerobic digesters that turn food, yard, and bodily waste into fuel to heat water/furnace/make electricity, etc

icebraining 9y ago

Right, but the question asks about good ideas, and that's a problem - how do you tell it's good? Yeah, I know about market validation, but you can't literally validate every idea you come up with. Especially if you have to build an MVP to do it.

breakyerself 9y ago
You can't know for certain if an idea is good ahead of time. You can identify some bad ideas that look good with a little research, but the only sure way to tell is to do the thing. Hell even if it is a good idea they might just fail to execute it properly. I wonder if they're just too risk averse. Looking for a sure thing when there's no such thing.
- icebraining 9y ago
  For me, I wouldn't say it's looking for a sure thing, but feeling like I'm probably wasting my time. Like you said, one can easily come up with dozens, possibly hundreds of ideas. Chances are most are duds. Without any good way of ranking them, what are the chances you'll hit on a good one? Doing this kind of "idea lottery" just sounds like a recipe for frustration.
  - breakyerself 9y ago
    For them it's got to be frustrating. It's fun for me. I like brainstorming.
niko001 9y ago
I do "idea validation as a service" by asking the target group of an idea what they think about it: http://www.ideacheck.io http://www.ideacheck.io