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Show HN: Evaluate your startup ideas in 30 seconds – Shouldimakeit.com

18 points by craigbarber 7y ago

ai_ia 7y ago
Can you change the font color to have better contrast? It is difficult to read in Firefox. In the 10th question, I don't understand what do you mean acquisition activity. Can you rephrase that?
- craigbarber 7y ago
  Hey there, thanks for the feedback. Okay, I'll look into the contrast issue. In regards to the last question, it means are people acquiring companies similar or the same as your idea. Hope this helps.
throw_no_humour 7y ago
Not so long ago .. there used to be porn websites .. They would claim there are sexy singles in your area .. ask you a bunch of questions and at the end ... point you to some other website to signup and pay and what not .. Same paradigm here ..
- craigbarber 7y ago
  No such thing happening on my site 'Throw_no_humour' Shouldimakeit.com is is a simple quiz made in Typeform. I ask for no data at all from users, it's totally anonymous. Once the person has finished the quiz, and if they get a high score I have a button that clicks through to a landing page of a book I wrote. ( userbly.com ) It's called content marketing, just like Unsplash did and countless other websites do. Provide something of value in return you get a chance to open a conversation about something you made.
  - throw_no_humour 7y ago
    Porn website | Evaluate Startup .......................................................... Find sexy singles.........|........Is your startup sexy enough ? Answer these questions.....|.......Answer these questions Yes => Check this website......|.....Yes => Check this website Pay us..........|.............Pay us Actually your website is not providing any value * without providing justification of any statements made. * No data supporting claims made, no data collected or analysis done. It just provides a set of questions made in under 5 minutes pointing to your "ACTUAL" product which you were not having confidence enough to post directly.
folli 7y ago
"Maybe you should reconsider your idea"
seyz 7y ago
Test idea: "breakfast service at home". Personal opinion: Crappy business. No one (yet) has succeeded in making it a viable business. Result: Congratulations! Your startup idea scored 36 out of 50. You should consider making this idea a reality.
BenjiWiebe 7y ago
Looks like making a startup-evaluation quiz website is a poor idea, according to said quiz.
aiyodev 7y ago
First question: “Is this a nice-to-have or a must-have?” What? Are we taking about the idea, the company, the product? Who has it, the owner, the investor, the user? When you were writing these questions did you do the thing or have that there?

18 points by craigbarber 7y ago

Can you change the font color to have better contrast? It is difficult to read in Firefox. In the 10th question, I don't understand what do you mean acquisition activity. Can you rephrase that?

craigbarber 7y ago
Hey there, thanks for the feedback. Okay, I'll look into the contrast issue. In regards to the last question, it means are people acquiring companies similar or the same as your idea. Hope this helps.

throw_no_humour 7y ago

Not so long ago .. there used to be porn websites .. They would claim there are sexy singles in your area .. ask you a bunch of questions and at the end ... point you to some other website to signup and pay and what not .. Same paradigm here ..

craigbarber 7y ago
No such thing happening on my site 'Throw_no_humour' Shouldimakeit.com is is a simple quiz made in Typeform. I ask for no data at all from users, it's totally anonymous. Once the person has finished the quiz, and if they get a high score I have a button that clicks through to a landing page of a book I wrote. ( userbly.com ) It's called content marketing, just like Unsplash did and countless other websites do. Provide something of value in return you get a chance to open a conversation about something you made.
- throw_no_humour 7y ago
  Porn website | Evaluate Startup .......................................................... Find sexy singles.........|........Is your startup sexy enough ? Answer these questions.....|.......Answer these questions Yes => Check this website......|.....Yes => Check this website Pay us..........|.............Pay us Actually your website is not providing any value * without providing justification of any statements made. * No data supporting claims made, no data collected or analysis done. It just provides a set of questions made in under 5 minutes pointing to your "ACTUAL" product which you were not having confidence enough to post directly.

folli 7y ago

"Maybe you should reconsider your idea"

seyz 7y ago

Test idea: "breakfast service at home". Personal opinion: Crappy business. No one (yet) has succeeded in making it a viable business. Result: Congratulations! Your startup idea scored 36 out of 50. You should consider making this idea a reality.

BenjiWiebe 7y ago

Looks like making a startup-evaluation quiz website is a poor idea, according to said quiz.

aiyodev 7y ago

First question: “Is this a nice-to-have or a must-have?” What? Are we taking about the idea, the company, the product? Who has it, the owner, the investor, the user? When you were writing these questions did you do the thing or have that there?