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20,000 Startup Ideas

461 points by overlords 7y ago

ajmarsh 7y ago
"Splice or solder cables together or to overhead transmission lines, customer service lines, or street light lines, using hand tools, epoxies, or specialized equipment." No...no no don't do that you will stand a good chance of being electrocuted.
orangepanda 7y ago
> 7384. Prepare customers' nails in soapy water, using swabs, files, and orange sticks. Some are oddly specific
- WMCRUN 7y ago
  “Dump sugar dust from collectors into melting tanks and add water to reclaim sugar lost during processing.”
- joshvm 7y ago
  > 12399. Give enemas and perform catheterizations, ear flushes, intravenous feedings, or gavages. Very specific, and somewhat disturbing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejmFSN2qBG0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejmFSN2qBG0
  - codefreq 7y ago
    How did you went so far while reading the list?
    - anyzen 7y ago
      It's 1216 and 2399 actually.
    - joshvm 7y ago
      I ctrl-f'd for something else and had to do a double take when I saw that. The worrying part is presumable someone actually does that job - which seems to only involve sticking tubes into people, never mind which hole.
      - jandrese 7y ago
        Someone's gotta do the job. I've thought that inserting IVs is something that nurses struggle with a lot and maybe could be automated. It would be an absolute nightmare to develop that robot though, as you'd have to go through all of the medical device certification on top of dealing with all of the edge cases of human anatomy.
- silverdemon 7y ago
  Goes nicely with 18497 "Wash and reset wigs" provided that the wigs are made of ginger hair.
kuu 7y ago
2948. Deliver babies.
- orangepanda 7y ago
  I raise you "2603. [...] deliver babies safely"
  - samfriedman 7y ago
    Sounds like something to worry about once we've achieved market domination.
- cschneid 7y ago
  Uber for Babies™
- bananaeater 7y ago
  Here's an expired patent you can take advantage of: https://patents.google.com/patent/US3216423A/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US3216423A/en Succinctly named "Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force"
- magashna 7y ago
  Can you patent motherhood?
- volkk 7y ago
  holy shit, some of these are making me actually cry. this list is something else
jcadam 7y ago
> 4678. Develop transactional Web applications, using Web programming software and knowledge of programming languages, such as hypertext markup language (HTML) and extensible markup language (XML). Where has this list been all my life? I could have been a zillionaire....
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fouc 7y ago
>It maybe is even the listing of approximately all startup ideas. I wasn't able to find cloudflare in there
codefreq 7y ago
2413. Google maps
- deegles 7y ago
  Well, if you can out-Google Google Maps you'd definitely have a huge business.
colinwilyb 7y ago
I enjoy how some of them run together. 10933 and 10934 as an example: Clean, shape, and polish fingernails and toenails, using files and nail polish. Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
- highhedgehog 7y ago
  I am wondering if you have read all of the 20k rows in order to spot it
  - low_common 7y ago
    I'm wondering the exact same thing!
- toper-centage 7y ago
  I'm confused about 10933. Isn't that just a regular nails salon?
  - stronglikedan 7y ago
    Yes, but then you remove the bones from the freshly polished fingers and toes, and cut the meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
  - krm01 7y ago
    Isnt wework just a regular real estate company
  - ALittleLight 7y ago
    I've heard somewhere the way to find start up ideas is to take something like this list and add AI to it. How do you add AI to a nail salon start-up? How about: build an augmented reality display for customers who are waiting to get their nails done. It's got a camera, and it will show users what their nails would look like with any of the styles offered by the salon applied.
BlameKaneda 7y ago
> 10799. Align wheels. Okay. > 11031. Transport the deceased to the funeral home. I think we've found another use for robots.
- d-sc 7y ago
  I’m pretty sure your mocking. But the funeral industry needs to be disrupted. Went through the process a couple weeks ago and it felt pretty scummy.
  - Ill_ban_myself 7y ago
    I don't really have a point here, but my wife and I recently looked at burial options and there's a beautiful cemetery near us but the only really affordable option is cremation and storage in a wall of tiny notches with little doors with an indoor/outdoor viewing area and garden for visitors. I have started referring to it as, "Our Cubby" and my wife hates it.
  - lazyasciiart 7y ago
    A lot of it is legal, but there is some change happening. WA recently made it legal to compost* human remains, perhaps the first new option outside of burial and cremation? *in a very specific way https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/22/us/washington-human-composting-legal-trnd/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/22/us/washington-human-compostin...
- witrak 7y ago
  Very good idea, as big plague is coming...
- yreg 7y ago
  You do the align wheels thing and I'll get right on #660. > Apply and release hand brakes.
Rainymood 7y ago
>1556. Enter data into computers for use in analyses or reports Literally scale.ai
- daliusd 7y ago
  I was thinking about Power BI.
- ttul 7y ago
  Ouch
xntrk 7y ago
"524. Solicit new business." how did i never think of this before...
- guiriduro 7y ago
  done recursively, it is the koan for MLM.
- cschneid 7y ago
  Then when done: 7024. Collect payment upon job completion.
  - _Nat_ 7y ago
    And: > 1600. Collect payments from customers.
    - davidivadavid 7y ago
      All of these are huge businesses. Debt collection. Factoring. Etc.
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homonculus1 7y ago
A few of these are totally ripe for disruption! >51. Conduct raids and order detention of witnesses and suspects for questioning.
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- xer0x 7y ago
  Definitely my favourite economic disruption!
eloisant 7y ago
Well, considering ideas are a dime a dozen this site is worth 20,000 / 12 * $0.1 = $167. Maybe less actually :)
- delinka 7y ago
  I'm sure there's a method we could use to find overlap and reduce the worth of items that overlap ... "Maybe less" indeed ;-)
- akerro 7y ago
  >20,000 there aren't even 20k ideas...
  - tim333 7y ago
    18514 so they are worth $154.28
- joeblau 7y ago
  Or ideas are worth nothing, it's execution that matters... so $0?
ttul 7y ago
Oh no. There is a banner ad now at the top of the list.
- martin_a 7y ago
  uBlock Origin got my back. No ads to be seen.
nqzero 7y ago
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 database optional: rest calls to 3rd parties anyone have an idea they're willing to share ?
- peterburkimsher 7y ago
  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?"
  - ackbar03 7y ago
    How much do users pay for the privilege to use this app?
    - peterburkimsher 7y ago
      No idea, I'm a programmer not a businessman. I don't think OP actually minds about income: "there doesn't need to be a way to eventually monetize it" I guess some money could be made by using the chat logs to train AI chat bots, and selling those bots. I have no idea how that would work in practice though.
  - tiborsaas 7y ago
    + the agent can retract words or make edits. retracts are visible, but edits are just counted. this sounds fun :)
    - nqzero 7y ago
      and chain the fbi-guys together into a game of telephone
hilmarh 7y ago
> 12064. Manage leasing of facility space. Sounds profitable.
- chuckgreenman 7y ago
  > Regular Brain - Lease an Office > Nebula Brain - Virtual Offices like Regus Offices > Galaxy Brain - Coworking spaces > Exploding Galaxy Brain - WeWork > Super Exploding Galaxy Brain - OurWork a per second billed coworking/living space
  - ovi256 7y ago
    OurWork ? More like Amazon Workplace Services, if Amazon does it.
    - tim333 7y ago
      WeLive.com is kinda getting there.
codeulike 7y ago
15728 would be an organised crime startup
- yoz-y 7y ago
  Or the police becoming privatized?
bepitulaz 7y ago
Idea 20100, make a filtering and full text search service for all of these ideas for better reading experience.
chrismorgan 7y ago
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, participating in educational programs, attending meetings or workshops, or participating in professional organizations or conferences. > 12863. Design, develop, select, test, implement, and evaluate new or modified informatics solutions, data structures, and decision-support mechanisms to support patients, health care professionals, and their information management and human-computer and human-technology interactions within health care contexts. > 7530. Keep abreast of game design technology and techniques, industry trends, or audience interests, reactions, and needs by reviewing current literature, talking with colleagues, participating in educational programs, attending meetings or workshops, or participating in professional organizations or conferences. > 4806. Direct environmental programs, such as air or water compliance, aboveground or underground storage tanks, spill prevention or control, hazardous waste or materials management, solid waste recycling, medical waste management, indoor air quality, integrated pest management, employee training, or disaster preparedness. > 5895. Compute, retrace, or adjust existing surveys of features such as highway alignments, property boundaries, utilities, control and other surveys to match the ground elevation-dependent grids, geodetic grids, or property boundaries and to ensure accuracy and continuity of data used in engineering, surveying, or construction projects. --- My method for determining these things (which may be of interest to some), using just my favourite text editor, rather than slurping it into a REPL for some programming language and manipulating it thus: 1. Copy the whole document to the clipboard; 2. Paste in Vim (and note at this point that lists lose their markers in favour of just a tab character, so the numbers disappear); 3. Manually remove everything that’s not the list; 4. Manually remove the tab at the start of each line with `:%s/^\t//` or block selection (this could also be done in the next step with slight modification, matching `^\t\(.\+)` and using `submatch(1)`); 5. Prefix each line with its length and the line number using `:%s/.\+/\=len(submatch(0)) . "\t" . line(".") . ". " . submatch(0)` (I actually used asterisk instead of \+, but HN formatting hates unmatched asterisks; see `:help sub-replace-\=`; another approach for the line number part alone would have been to block-insert `1.\t` on every line, then block-select all but the first, and use `g<CTRL-A>` to increment them, see `:help v_g_CTRL-A`); 6. Sort by line length with `:sort n` (since I had put it at the start of the line for convenience); 7. Optionally strip the character counts out again with `:%s/^\d\+\t//` or similar. sub-replace-\= and v_g_CTRL-A are among my favourite not-so-well-known Vim features. They’re not useful very often, but when they are, they’re really great.
bengarvey 7y ago
There are only 18514 ideas there
pratio 7y ago
haha > 5131 Move and arrange furniture and turn mattresses
hnal943 7y ago
Is this what people mean when they say that start up ideas are worthless? Or is this a joke?
hermes0 7y ago
Looks a bit random. If you give the start of this list to transformer https://talktotransformer.com/ https://talktotransformer.com/ the generated ones look as good as those, example: 5.Evaluate a vehicle's operation and use of the system and record information on the system, such as the number of miles driven, total mileage, speed, and odometer reading. 6.Prepare and administer reports to provide data on vehicle performance, and to support vehicle performance maintenance and repair.
- eitland 7y ago
  Maye someone should interface this to the patent applications system. The idea is that if a bot can generate patent applications they aren't very novel. From this we should backtrack and look at existing patents and throw a large percentage of them out : )
Geee 7y ago
These are not startup ideas, but activities that people do. A startup-idea might be to find a way to make these activities easier. To make this list more useful, there should be two additional datapoints: 1. How many people does the activity impact 2. How much does the activity impact each person. The product of these would be the total impact. Sorting by the amount of impact would give the most valuable areas for innovation, and there should already be a plenty of businesses focused on these activities.
- petra 7y ago
  What's missing is a resource that would let you understand each activity, it's tools, processes, problems, etc.
  - deleted 7y ago
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  - Geee 7y ago
    Actually, if you Google them, you'll find the ONET page for the job descriptions that includes the activity and has more information about the task, e.g. https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/51-8011.00 https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/51-8011.00 (tasks are the 'startup ideas')
- davidivadavid 7y ago
  Some (most?) ideas might be about how to make these activities disappear completely.
AaronNewcomer 7y ago
Word Cloud: https://i.imgur.com/2Tjjo6S.png https://i.imgur.com/2Tjjo6S.png
- Fraaaank 7y ago
  Such use, much wow.
- cameronbrown 7y ago
  Nah this can't be right. Blockchain, AI and Machine Learning need to be huge. No wonder no startups are getting funded nowadays /s
- bitwiser 7y ago
  Seems like the best start up idea is one where you USE stuff to create stuff people USE. I've cracked the code.
fencepost 7y ago
Even without the list being suitable for mockery, ideas are EASY. Ideas are like opinions, everybody has one. Take a shower, have some ideas. Go out for drinks, hear a bunch of drunk people talking about the great idea they just had. Winnowing out the chaff (not done here) is harder because not everyone agrees on what's chaff, and building a successful company for any of many definitions of success is harder still. The idea is when an egg is fertilized. Producing a baby is a lot more work, and producing a successful adult is a lot more beyond that.
- jenkstom 7y ago
  It might be closer to say that the ideas are like producing sperm. Easy and fun to do, but getting one to an egg requires some logistical expertise.
  - cortesoft 7y ago
    So fertilizing the egg is getting funding, and a successful exit is the kid moving out at 18.
    - acpetrov 7y ago
      I'd prefer a virgin birth, then selling the child a few years later
- tiborsaas 7y ago
  > ideas are EASY That's true. I see a few things behind the monitor right now. 1) Trees. Let's do something with them, like planting them at scale, maybe mess with their DNA, WCGR? 2) The window has birdshit on it. Let's build window cleaning drones. 3) Ceiling lights. These are really crap make a really smart, well designed one for office environments.
  - joshspankit 7y ago
    3) Surprisingly enough (to me); Unifi has done just that. https://store.ui.com/collections/led/products/unifi-led-panel https://store.ui.com/collections/led/products/unifi-led-pane...
martin_a 7y ago
> 7819. Participate or assist in raids and arrests. Yeah, well, not sure about this one.
- icebraining 7y ago
  Lots of money to be made selling equipment for those.
forgotmypwd123 7y ago
>524. Solicit new business. Genius!
Accujack 7y ago
Ideas are a dime a dozen; Everyone has them. What is rare is the hard work needed to make an idea a reality.
- jjoonathan 7y ago
  Right, but these don't even sound like ideas, they sound like sequences that fell out of somebody's intro to AI project.
- tetraca 7y ago
  Everyone has ideas, but not everyone has good ones.
- shantly 7y ago
  I never have any that are even half-decent. Plenty for things that aren't businesses. Sometimes I act on those but they don't make me money. None for businesses. When I think I have one it always turns out there are a few players in the space already, one or more of them appear to be doing a good job with no clear way to outdo them, but nonetheless all appear to be struggling (so it might have been an OK idea when no-one was doing it but trying now would pretty much be doomed, spending weeks to months to get off the ground to take 10th place eating from a small pie). Or it's something you'd have to have FAANG resources and/or a huge pile of cash available to do (owning/collecting relevant machine learning datasets, mostly). When other people say "hey I'd love an app that let me do X, you should build it, you'd make so much money" it usually turns out there are already 20 in the app store, and they "love" the idea so much that they'd never bothered to look for one. This is true whether it's for themselves, or for their job.
cabaalis 7y ago
Just prepend "Uber for " or append " for developers" and this is indeed a startup idea list. Also: > 20. Carry messages or documents between departments. "I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people! Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?"
starikovs 7y ago
A startup idea: an app to generate a startup idea (based on this list).
- TeMPOraL 7y ago
  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 < els.length ; ++i) { els[i].innerText = startups[Math.floor(Math.random() * startups.length)] + " for people who " + els[i].innerText; }})() 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!
  - starikovs 7y ago
    Cool. But it should be in React Native and AI to raise some money.
    - TeMPOraL 7y ago
      Don't know about React Native, but updated the app to generate AI-related ideas (and some others).
geonic 7y ago
> Select sizes and types of molds according to instructions. Fair enough
whalesalad 7y ago
This is hilarious. The first one that caught my eye was helping passengers leave and airplane. Was this an ML project? This looks like the output of a very basic machine learning project. The commentary here is the best part of this. As (un)valuable as this list may be, it definitely gets the wheels turning in your mind.
shaneprrlt 7y ago
How old are some of these? For instance, is #402 even relevant today?
luxuryballs 7y ago
“Perform oral practice periodontal surgery on the jaw or mouth.” Dude! I even have a spare room, we can totally do this one!
eejjjj82 7y ago
"117. Buff defective areas of inner tubes, using scrapers." what?
- icebraining 7y ago
  Part of the job description of Tire Repairers and Changers: https://www.mappingyourfuture.org/planyourcareer/careership/career_summary.cfm?careerID=727&headerImage=_career_summary https://www.mappingyourfuture.org/planyourcareer/careership/...
marceloabsousa 7y ago
Great stuff - however, one thing that is missing is the ability to discuss these ideas in a forum-like medium. This is why I created the GH repo: https://github.com/marcelosousa/million-dollar-ideas https://github.com/marcelosousa/million-dollar-ideas. I might code a script that pushes each item as an issue to the repo to at least allow for that.
layoutIfNeeded 7y ago
20 001: collect, organize and rank a library of startup ideas
sixQuarks 7y ago
These are so useless
milsebg 7y ago
"Process or book convicted individuals into prison." AirBnB and Uber for prisoners. Sounds legitimate :)
frobozz 7y ago
> 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
vincent-toups 7y ago
This combined with the WeWork news is not doing anything to counter my opinion that startup culture is both practically vacuous and morally bankrupt.
- icebraining 7y ago
  If I upload the right HTML to github, can I get you to move to Portugal and become a cod fisherman?
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itaibo 7y ago
I like it. I created this mini API. Throws random ideas: https://startup-ideas-api.btl.es https://startup-ideas-api.btl.es
davidw 7y ago
You could generate even more startup ideas by running a Markov chain thing on these! * Check with customers to determine their usefulness. * Inoculate animals against various diseases, such as internships. * Review product promotional materials, and physical fitness. * Monitor computer-controlled test equipment, using germicides and sterilizers. * Transpose music to alternate keys, or to towers. * Operate farm machinery, such as espresso machines. * Document software defects, using hand and horn signals. * Prepare bank deposits, or performing arts. * Run errands, such as animal dehorning or castration. * Forecast staff, equipment, utensils, and silverware.
- akerro 7y ago
  >* Check with customers to determine their usefulness. Nice, I always say that customers and testers are source of all bugs!
  - davidw 7y ago
    "Demonstrate proper operation of laboratory equipment by inspecting, calibrating, cleaning, oiling, and greasing equipment, and analyze data to evaluate the effects of regulatory limitations on land use projects, such as explaining regulations, answering visitor requests, needs and interests of individuals and groups on basic rules of good nutrition, healthy eating habits and illness prevention and treatment of cardiac or peripheral vascular treatments, such as meteorological, atmospheric, oceanic, paleoclimate, climate, or related structures such as docks, bridges, tunnels, and other specialized material handling equipment such as endoscopes, closed circuit television, still photography, and testing devices, and repair assistive devices or make adaptive changes to equipment or environments." Seems like this one is destined to fail due to lack of focus. I generated these with https://github.com/pteichman/cobe https://github.com/pteichman/cobe - anyone got other markov chain generators to play with? This one seems pretty basic.
- edm0nd 7y ago
  Ah yes, the great music towers of 2020. What a time to be alive.
TeMPOraL 7y ago
I wrote an app that turns those into proper startup ideas. Source here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21126901 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21126901.
adpirz 7y ago
What would make this for more useful is to have a list of even mildly _validated_ ideas, even by showing that there are existing competitors or a market for it. Or pointing to a gap where it exists. Validation is the first step to product market fit.
tbritsch 7y ago
https://thisstartupdoesnotexist.com/ https://thisstartupdoesnotexist.com/
utopcell 7y ago
this is an outrage: there are only 18,514 startup ideas in there.
marviel 7y ago
"883: Design computers and the software that runs them." Seems to check out
tabtab 7y ago
"Implement dynamic relational" is not listed. Fooey! In fact, it doesn't even contain the word "relational" or "RDBMS". In general the IT-oriented items seem like variations of "fix my goofed up spreadsheet". Did they scrape the tech support logs?
dpcan 7y ago
Could a massive list like this help stop frivolous patents from being viable, or granted? Perhaps if all people could just add their ideas to this list, over time, we could prevent the ability for anyone to patent anything if the idea already existed. Or do I still not understand patents? Could this list exist at a stop-patents type website where even the patent office could do a quick search to see if an idea is unique and original, or has been thought of easily already and put on big list?
- nhumrich 7y ago
  You dont understand patents. You cant patent an idea. You patent a specific way to do something. For example, you cant patent a mop, but you can patent a specific design of a mop, a way to build it. You cant patent encryption but you can patent an encryption algorithm. You cant patent "compressed video" but can patent a compression format. A patent requires a detailed writeup of how to do something.
moonlighter1 7y ago
ideas are cheap
georgewsinger 7y ago
Title should be: "20,000 incremental startup ideas that will waste years of your life and generate mediocre returns for your investors".
_Nat_ 7y ago
To clarify, is this meant as a joke of some sort? Just not sure if it's just a satirical thing -- like, "Hah, look at the silly word jumbles my script generated!" -- or if it's meant as a tool for something.
k__ 7y ago
I subscribed to a few newsletters that would send me startup ideas and problems to solve on a daily basis. But somehow that didn't do anything for me. Some even would offer to connect me to people with the problem, but I had the feeling even with people who would say "I have problem X and I'd pay for a solution" the whole process was still too abstract for me. I think this has more to do with the business side of things than with talking to potential customers and implementing a solution. How do I start? What are good first steps if you don't know anyone, don't have a network etc.
- dceddia 7y ago
  Flip it on its head: don’t start with an idea. Start by identifying a group of people you belong to (e.g. “Rails developers”), because it gives you an instant leg up in knowing their struggles. Then research their struggles. Write about them, and solve them. Grow an audience (read: email list). After all that research you’ll have a solid idea of what they already want and buy, and you can create that for them. Plus you’ll have built up an audience to sell it to! It’s not necessarily quick but it works. Amy Hoy & Alex Hillman were the ones who taught me this strategy and I heartily recommend reading everything they’ve written at https://stackingthebricks.com https://stackingthebricks.com :)
  - k__ 7y ago
    I read their books, somehow I felt lost rather quick after starting to pursuite their ways.
  - yetanotherjosh 7y ago
    It is a lot easier from a technical standpoint if the group you pick is not already in tech. Replace "rails developers" with something like "antiques collectors" or "massage therapists" or "arborists" any other profession that isn't saturated with software options already. These people all have smartphones and computers but probably have only crappy options for how those tools specifically accelerate their work.
- adamwintle 7y ago
  Can you share the links to those newsletters? Sounds interesting, thanks!
saalweachter 7y ago
Unsurprisingly, contains some duplicates: #11755: Separate scrap waste and related materials for reuse, recycling, or disposal. #11784: Separate scrap or waste materials for recycling, reuse, or environmentally sound disposal. #11997: Identify or separate waste products or materials for recycling or reuse.
morpomorpo 7y ago
Replace xylophone bars and wheels. Watch out you guys we've got a unicorn
morpomorpo 7y ago
Replace xylophone bars and wheels. Watch out guys we've got a unicorn over here
foobar_ 7y ago
Unreadable.
ArPDent 7y ago
6835. Provide testimony as a witness in court.
rodrigopetter 7y ago
768. Measure and mark cutting lines on materials, using a ruler, pencil, chalk, and marking gauge.
rorygibson 7y ago
https://www.ideasarecheap.net https://www.ideasarecheap.net ^^ I built this more or less on a bet about a year ago. Give it a dollar and it will give you a startup business idea. (No Markov chains here, it's a couple of arrays of industries and keywords and a JS function that uses Math.random()... )

461 points by overlords 7y ago

"Splice or solder cables together or to overhead transmission lines, customer service lines, or street light lines, using hand tools, epoxies, or specialized equipment." No...no no don't do that you will stand a good chance of being electrocuted.

orangepanda 7y ago

> 7384. Prepare customers' nails in soapy water, using swabs, files, and orange sticks. Some are oddly specific

WMCRUN 7y ago
“Dump sugar dust from collectors into melting tanks and add water to reclaim sugar lost during processing.”
joshvm 7y ago
> 12399. Give enemas and perform catheterizations, ear flushes, intravenous feedings, or gavages. Very specific, and somewhat disturbing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejmFSN2qBG0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejmFSN2qBG0
- codefreq 7y ago
  How did you went so far while reading the list?
  - anyzen 7y ago
    It's 1216 and 2399 actually.
  - joshvm 7y ago
    I ctrl-f'd for something else and had to do a double take when I saw that. The worrying part is presumable someone actually does that job - which seems to only involve sticking tubes into people, never mind which hole.
    - jandrese 7y ago
      Someone's gotta do the job. I've thought that inserting IVs is something that nurses struggle with a lot and maybe could be automated. It would be an absolute nightmare to develop that robot though, as you'd have to go through all of the medical device certification on top of dealing with all of the edge cases of human anatomy.
silverdemon 7y ago
Goes nicely with 18497 "Wash and reset wigs" provided that the wigs are made of ginger hair.

kuu 7y ago

2948. Deliver babies.

orangepanda 7y ago
I raise you "2603. [...] deliver babies safely"
- samfriedman 7y ago
  Sounds like something to worry about once we've achieved market domination.
cschneid 7y ago
Uber for Babies™
bananaeater 7y ago
Here's an expired patent you can take advantage of: https://patents.google.com/patent/US3216423A/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US3216423A/en Succinctly named "Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force"
magashna 7y ago
Can you patent motherhood?
volkk 7y ago
holy shit, some of these are making me actually cry. this list is something else

jcadam 7y ago

> 4678. Develop transactional Web applications, using Web programming software and knowledge of programming languages, such as hypertext markup language (HTML) and extensible markup language (XML). Where has this list been all my life? I could have been a zillionaire....

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fouc 7y ago

>It maybe is even the listing of approximately all startup ideas. I wasn't able to find cloudflare in there

codefreq 7y ago

2413. Google maps

deegles 7y ago
Well, if you can out-Google Google Maps you'd definitely have a huge business.

colinwilyb 7y ago

I enjoy how some of them run together. 10933 and 10934 as an example: Clean, shape, and polish fingernails and toenails, using files and nail polish. Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.

highhedgehog 7y ago
I am wondering if you have read all of the 20k rows in order to spot it
- low_common 7y ago
  I'm wondering the exact same thing!
toper-centage 7y ago
I'm confused about 10933. Isn't that just a regular nails salon?
- stronglikedan 7y ago
  Yes, but then you remove the bones from the freshly polished fingers and toes, and cut the meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
- krm01 7y ago
  Isnt wework just a regular real estate company
- ALittleLight 7y ago
  I've heard somewhere the way to find start up ideas is to take something like this list and add AI to it. How do you add AI to a nail salon start-up? How about: build an augmented reality display for customers who are waiting to get their nails done. It's got a camera, and it will show users what their nails would look like with any of the styles offered by the salon applied.

BlameKaneda 7y ago

> 10799. Align wheels. Okay. > 11031. Transport the deceased to the funeral home. I think we've found another use for robots.

d-sc 7y ago
I’m pretty sure your mocking. But the funeral industry needs to be disrupted. Went through the process a couple weeks ago and it felt pretty scummy.
- Ill_ban_myself 7y ago
  I don't really have a point here, but my wife and I recently looked at burial options and there's a beautiful cemetery near us but the only really affordable option is cremation and storage in a wall of tiny notches with little doors with an indoor/outdoor viewing area and garden for visitors. I have started referring to it as, "Our Cubby" and my wife hates it.
- lazyasciiart 7y ago
  A lot of it is legal, but there is some change happening. WA recently made it legal to compost* human remains, perhaps the first new option outside of burial and cremation? *in a very specific way https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/22/us/washington-human-composting-legal-trnd/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/22/us/washington-human-compostin...
witrak 7y ago
Very good idea, as big plague is coming...
yreg 7y ago
You do the align wheels thing and I'll get right on #660. > Apply and release hand brakes.

Rainymood 7y ago

>1556. Enter data into computers for use in analyses or reports Literally scale.ai

daliusd 7y ago
I was thinking about Power BI.
ttul 7y ago
Ouch

xntrk 7y ago

"524. Solicit new business." how did i never think of this before...

guiriduro 7y ago
done recursively, it is the koan for MLM.
cschneid 7y ago
Then when done: 7024. Collect payment upon job completion.
- _Nat_ 7y ago
  And: > 1600. Collect payments from customers.
  - davidivadavid 7y ago
    All of these are huge businesses. Debt collection. Factoring. Etc.
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homonculus1 7y ago

A few of these are totally ripe for disruption! >51. Conduct raids and order detention of witnesses and suspects for questioning.

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xer0x 7y ago
Definitely my favourite economic disruption!

eloisant 7y ago

Well, considering ideas are a dime a dozen this site is worth 20,000 / 12 * $0.1 = $167. Maybe less actually :)

delinka 7y ago
I'm sure there's a method we could use to find overlap and reduce the worth of items that overlap ... "Maybe less" indeed ;-)
akerro 7y ago
>20,000 there aren't even 20k ideas...
- tim333 7y ago
  18514 so they are worth $154.28
joeblau 7y ago
Or ideas are worth nothing, it's execution that matters... so $0?

ttul 7y ago

Oh no. There is a banner ad now at the top of the list.

martin_a 7y ago
uBlock Origin got my back. No ads to be seen.

nqzero 7y ago

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 database optional: rest calls to 3rd parties anyone have an idea they're willing to share ?

peterburkimsher 7y ago
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?"
- ackbar03 7y ago
  How much do users pay for the privilege to use this app?
  - peterburkimsher 7y ago
    No idea, I'm a programmer not a businessman. I don't think OP actually minds about income: "there doesn't need to be a way to eventually monetize it" I guess some money could be made by using the chat logs to train AI chat bots, and selling those bots. I have no idea how that would work in practice though.
- tiborsaas 7y ago
  + the agent can retract words or make edits. retracts are visible, but edits are just counted. this sounds fun :)
  - nqzero 7y ago
    and chain the fbi-guys together into a game of telephone

hilmarh 7y ago

> 12064. Manage leasing of facility space. Sounds profitable.

chuckgreenman 7y ago
> Regular Brain - Lease an Office > Nebula Brain - Virtual Offices like Regus Offices > Galaxy Brain - Coworking spaces > Exploding Galaxy Brain - WeWork > Super Exploding Galaxy Brain - OurWork a per second billed coworking/living space
- ovi256 7y ago
  OurWork ? More like Amazon Workplace Services, if Amazon does it.
  - tim333 7y ago
    WeLive.com is kinda getting there.

codeulike 7y ago

15728 would be an organised crime startup

yoz-y 7y ago
Or the police becoming privatized?

bepitulaz 7y ago

Idea 20100, make a filtering and full text search service for all of these ideas for better reading experience.

chrismorgan 7y ago

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, participating in educational programs, attending meetings or workshops, or participating in professional organizations or conferences. > 12863. Design, develop, select, test, implement, and evaluate new or modified informatics solutions, data structures, and decision-support mechanisms to support patients, health care professionals, and their information management and human-computer and human-technology interactions within health care contexts. > 7530. Keep abreast of game design technology and techniques, industry trends, or audience interests, reactions, and needs by reviewing current literature, talking with colleagues, participating in educational programs, attending meetings or workshops, or participating in professional organizations or conferences. > 4806. Direct environmental programs, such as air or water compliance, aboveground or underground storage tanks, spill prevention or control, hazardous waste or materials management, solid waste recycling, medical waste management, indoor air quality, integrated pest management, employee training, or disaster preparedness. > 5895. Compute, retrace, or adjust existing surveys of features such as highway alignments, property boundaries, utilities, control and other surveys to match the ground elevation-dependent grids, geodetic grids, or property boundaries and to ensure accuracy and continuity of data used in engineering, surveying, or construction projects. --- My method for determining these things (which may be of interest to some), using just my favourite text editor, rather than slurping it into a REPL for some programming language and manipulating it thus: 1. Copy the whole document to the clipboard; 2. Paste in Vim (and note at this point that lists lose their markers in favour of just a tab character, so the numbers disappear); 3. Manually remove everything that’s not the list; 4. Manually remove the tab at the start of each line with `:%s/^\t//` or block selection (this could also be done in the next step with slight modification, matching `^\t\(.\+)` and using `submatch(1)`); 5. Prefix each line with its length and the line number using `:%s/.\+/\=len(submatch(0)) . "\t" . line(".") . ". " . submatch(0)` (I actually used asterisk instead of \+, but HN formatting hates unmatched asterisks; see `:help sub-replace-\=`; another approach for the line number part alone would have been to block-insert `1.\t` on every line, then block-select all but the first, and use `g<CTRL-A>` to increment them, see `:help v_g_CTRL-A`); 6. Sort by line length with `:sort n` (since I had put it at the start of the line for convenience); 7. Optionally strip the character counts out again with `:%s/^\d\+\t//` or similar. sub-replace-\= and v_g_CTRL-A are among my favourite not-so-well-known Vim features. They’re not useful very often, but when they are, they’re really great.

bengarvey 7y ago

There are only 18514 ideas there

pratio 7y ago

haha > 5131 Move and arrange furniture and turn mattresses

hnal943 7y ago

Is this what people mean when they say that start up ideas are worthless? Or is this a joke?

hermes0 7y ago

Looks a bit random. If you give the start of this list to transformer https://talktotransformer.com/ https://talktotransformer.com/ the generated ones look as good as those, example: 5.Evaluate a vehicle's operation and use of the system and record information on the system, such as the number of miles driven, total mileage, speed, and odometer reading. 6.Prepare and administer reports to provide data on vehicle performance, and to support vehicle performance maintenance and repair.

eitland 7y ago
Maye someone should interface this to the patent applications system. The idea is that if a bot can generate patent applications they aren't very novel. From this we should backtrack and look at existing patents and throw a large percentage of them out : )

Geee 7y ago

These are not startup ideas, but activities that people do. A startup-idea might be to find a way to make these activities easier. To make this list more useful, there should be two additional datapoints: 1. How many people does the activity impact 2. How much does the activity impact each person. The product of these would be the total impact. Sorting by the amount of impact would give the most valuable areas for innovation, and there should already be a plenty of businesses focused on these activities.

petra 7y ago
What's missing is a resource that would let you understand each activity, it's tools, processes, problems, etc.
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- Geee 7y ago
  Actually, if you Google them, you'll find the ONET page for the job descriptions that includes the activity and has more information about the task, e.g. https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/51-8011.00 https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/51-8011.00 (tasks are the 'startup ideas')
davidivadavid 7y ago
Some (most?) ideas might be about how to make these activities disappear completely.

AaronNewcomer 7y ago

Word Cloud: https://i.imgur.com/2Tjjo6S.png https://i.imgur.com/2Tjjo6S.png

Fraaaank 7y ago
Such use, much wow.
cameronbrown 7y ago
Nah this can't be right. Blockchain, AI and Machine Learning need to be huge. No wonder no startups are getting funded nowadays /s
bitwiser 7y ago
Seems like the best start up idea is one where you USE stuff to create stuff people USE. I've cracked the code.

fencepost 7y ago

Even without the list being suitable for mockery, ideas are EASY. Ideas are like opinions, everybody has one. Take a shower, have some ideas. Go out for drinks, hear a bunch of drunk people talking about the great idea they just had. Winnowing out the chaff (not done here) is harder because not everyone agrees on what's chaff, and building a successful company for any of many definitions of success is harder still. The idea is when an egg is fertilized. Producing a baby is a lot more work, and producing a successful adult is a lot more beyond that.

jenkstom 7y ago
It might be closer to say that the ideas are like producing sperm. Easy and fun to do, but getting one to an egg requires some logistical expertise.
- cortesoft 7y ago
  So fertilizing the egg is getting funding, and a successful exit is the kid moving out at 18.
  - acpetrov 7y ago
    I'd prefer a virgin birth, then selling the child a few years later
tiborsaas 7y ago
> ideas are EASY That's true. I see a few things behind the monitor right now. 1) Trees. Let's do something with them, like planting them at scale, maybe mess with their DNA, WCGR? 2) The window has birdshit on it. Let's build window cleaning drones. 3) Ceiling lights. These are really crap make a really smart, well designed one for office environments.
- joshspankit 7y ago
  3) Surprisingly enough (to me); Unifi has done just that. https://store.ui.com/collections/led/products/unifi-led-panel https://store.ui.com/collections/led/products/unifi-led-pane...

martin_a 7y ago

> 7819. Participate or assist in raids and arrests. Yeah, well, not sure about this one.

icebraining 7y ago
Lots of money to be made selling equipment for those.

forgotmypwd123 7y ago

>524. Solicit new business. Genius!

Accujack 7y ago

Ideas are a dime a dozen; Everyone has them. What is rare is the hard work needed to make an idea a reality.

jjoonathan 7y ago
Right, but these don't even sound like ideas, they sound like sequences that fell out of somebody's intro to AI project.
tetraca 7y ago
Everyone has ideas, but not everyone has good ones.
shantly 7y ago
I never have any that are even half-decent. Plenty for things that aren't businesses. Sometimes I act on those but they don't make me money. None for businesses. When I think I have one it always turns out there are a few players in the space already, one or more of them appear to be doing a good job with no clear way to outdo them, but nonetheless all appear to be struggling (so it might have been an OK idea when no-one was doing it but trying now would pretty much be doomed, spending weeks to months to get off the ground to take 10th place eating from a small pie). Or it's something you'd have to have FAANG resources and/or a huge pile of cash available to do (owning/collecting relevant machine learning datasets, mostly). When other people say "hey I'd love an app that let me do X, you should build it, you'd make so much money" it usually turns out there are already 20 in the app store, and they "love" the idea so much that they'd never bothered to look for one. This is true whether it's for themselves, or for their job.

cabaalis 7y ago

Just prepend "Uber for " or append " for developers" and this is indeed a startup idea list. Also: > 20. Carry messages or documents between departments. "I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people! Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?"

starikovs 7y ago

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

TeMPOraL 7y ago
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 < els.length ; ++i) { els[i].innerText = startups[Math.floor(Math.random() * startups.length)] + " for people who " + els[i].innerText; }})() 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!
- starikovs 7y ago
  Cool. But it should be in React Native and AI to raise some money.
  - TeMPOraL 7y ago
    Don't know about React Native, but updated the app to generate AI-related ideas (and some others).

geonic 7y ago

> Select sizes and types of molds according to instructions. Fair enough

whalesalad 7y ago

This is hilarious. The first one that caught my eye was helping passengers leave and airplane. Was this an ML project? This looks like the output of a very basic machine learning project. The commentary here is the best part of this. As (un)valuable as this list may be, it definitely gets the wheels turning in your mind.

shaneprrlt 7y ago

How old are some of these? For instance, is #402 even relevant today?

luxuryballs 7y ago

“Perform oral practice periodontal surgery on the jaw or mouth.” Dude! I even have a spare room, we can totally do this one!

eejjjj82 7y ago

"117. Buff defective areas of inner tubes, using scrapers." what?

icebraining 7y ago
Part of the job description of Tire Repairers and Changers: https://www.mappingyourfuture.org/planyourcareer/careership/career_summary.cfm?careerID=727&headerImage=_career_summary https://www.mappingyourfuture.org/planyourcareer/careership/...

marceloabsousa 7y ago

Great stuff - however, one thing that is missing is the ability to discuss these ideas in a forum-like medium. This is why I created the GH repo: https://github.com/marcelosousa/million-dollar-ideas https://github.com/marcelosousa/million-dollar-ideas. I might code a script that pushes each item as an issue to the repo to at least allow for that.

layoutIfNeeded 7y ago

20 001: collect, organize and rank a library of startup ideas

sixQuarks 7y ago

These are so useless

milsebg 7y ago

"Process or book convicted individuals into prison." AirBnB and Uber for prisoners. Sounds legitimate :)

frobozz 7y ago

> 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

vincent-toups 7y ago

This combined with the WeWork news is not doing anything to counter my opinion that startup culture is both practically vacuous and morally bankrupt.

icebraining 7y ago
If I upload the right HTML to github, can I get you to move to Portugal and become a cod fisherman?

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itaibo 7y ago

I like it. I created this mini API. Throws random ideas: https://startup-ideas-api.btl.es https://startup-ideas-api.btl.es

davidw 7y ago

You could generate even more startup ideas by running a Markov chain thing on these! * Check with customers to determine their usefulness. * Inoculate animals against various diseases, such as internships. * Review product promotional materials, and physical fitness. * Monitor computer-controlled test equipment, using germicides and sterilizers. * Transpose music to alternate keys, or to towers. * Operate farm machinery, such as espresso machines. * Document software defects, using hand and horn signals. * Prepare bank deposits, or performing arts. * Run errands, such as animal dehorning or castration. * Forecast staff, equipment, utensils, and silverware.

akerro 7y ago
>* Check with customers to determine their usefulness. Nice, I always say that customers and testers are source of all bugs!
- davidw 7y ago
  "Demonstrate proper operation of laboratory equipment by inspecting, calibrating, cleaning, oiling, and greasing equipment, and analyze data to evaluate the effects of regulatory limitations on land use projects, such as explaining regulations, answering visitor requests, needs and interests of individuals and groups on basic rules of good nutrition, healthy eating habits and illness prevention and treatment of cardiac or peripheral vascular treatments, such as meteorological, atmospheric, oceanic, paleoclimate, climate, or related structures such as docks, bridges, tunnels, and other specialized material handling equipment such as endoscopes, closed circuit television, still photography, and testing devices, and repair assistive devices or make adaptive changes to equipment or environments." Seems like this one is destined to fail due to lack of focus. I generated these with https://github.com/pteichman/cobe https://github.com/pteichman/cobe - anyone got other markov chain generators to play with? This one seems pretty basic.
edm0nd 7y ago
Ah yes, the great music towers of 2020. What a time to be alive.

TeMPOraL 7y ago

I wrote an app that turns those into proper startup ideas. Source here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21126901 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21126901.

adpirz 7y ago

What would make this for more useful is to have a list of even mildly _validated_ ideas, even by showing that there are existing competitors or a market for it. Or pointing to a gap where it exists. Validation is the first step to product market fit.

tbritsch 7y ago

https://thisstartupdoesnotexist.com/ https://thisstartupdoesnotexist.com/

utopcell 7y ago

this is an outrage: there are only 18,514 startup ideas in there.

marviel 7y ago

"883: Design computers and the software that runs them." Seems to check out

tabtab 7y ago

"Implement dynamic relational" is not listed. Fooey! In fact, it doesn't even contain the word "relational" or "RDBMS". In general the IT-oriented items seem like variations of "fix my goofed up spreadsheet". Did they scrape the tech support logs?

dpcan 7y ago

Could a massive list like this help stop frivolous patents from being viable, or granted? Perhaps if all people could just add their ideas to this list, over time, we could prevent the ability for anyone to patent anything if the idea already existed. Or do I still not understand patents? Could this list exist at a stop-patents type website where even the patent office could do a quick search to see if an idea is unique and original, or has been thought of easily already and put on big list?

nhumrich 7y ago
You dont understand patents. You cant patent an idea. You patent a specific way to do something. For example, you cant patent a mop, but you can patent a specific design of a mop, a way to build it. You cant patent encryption but you can patent an encryption algorithm. You cant patent "compressed video" but can patent a compression format. A patent requires a detailed writeup of how to do something.

moonlighter1 7y ago

ideas are cheap

georgewsinger 7y ago

Title should be: "20,000 incremental startup ideas that will waste years of your life and generate mediocre returns for your investors".

_Nat_ 7y ago

To clarify, is this meant as a joke of some sort? Just not sure if it's just a satirical thing -- like, "Hah, look at the silly word jumbles my script generated!" -- or if it's meant as a tool for something.

k__ 7y ago

I subscribed to a few newsletters that would send me startup ideas and problems to solve on a daily basis. But somehow that didn't do anything for me. Some even would offer to connect me to people with the problem, but I had the feeling even with people who would say "I have problem X and I'd pay for a solution" the whole process was still too abstract for me. I think this has more to do with the business side of things than with talking to potential customers and implementing a solution. How do I start? What are good first steps if you don't know anyone, don't have a network etc.

dceddia 7y ago
Flip it on its head: don’t start with an idea. Start by identifying a group of people you belong to (e.g. “Rails developers”), because it gives you an instant leg up in knowing their struggles. Then research their struggles. Write about them, and solve them. Grow an audience (read: email list). After all that research you’ll have a solid idea of what they already want and buy, and you can create that for them. Plus you’ll have built up an audience to sell it to! It’s not necessarily quick but it works. Amy Hoy & Alex Hillman were the ones who taught me this strategy and I heartily recommend reading everything they’ve written at https://stackingthebricks.com https://stackingthebricks.com :)
- k__ 7y ago
  I read their books, somehow I felt lost rather quick after starting to pursuite their ways.
- yetanotherjosh 7y ago
  It is a lot easier from a technical standpoint if the group you pick is not already in tech. Replace "rails developers" with something like "antiques collectors" or "massage therapists" or "arborists" any other profession that isn't saturated with software options already. These people all have smartphones and computers but probably have only crappy options for how those tools specifically accelerate their work.
adamwintle 7y ago
Can you share the links to those newsletters? Sounds interesting, thanks!

saalweachter 7y ago

Unsurprisingly, contains some duplicates: #11755: Separate scrap waste and related materials for reuse, recycling, or disposal. #11784: Separate scrap or waste materials for recycling, reuse, or environmentally sound disposal. #11997: Identify or separate waste products or materials for recycling or reuse.

morpomorpo 7y ago

Replace xylophone bars and wheels. Watch out you guys we've got a unicorn

morpomorpo 7y ago

Replace xylophone bars and wheels. Watch out guys we've got a unicorn over here

foobar_ 7y ago

Unreadable.

ArPDent 7y ago

6835. Provide testimony as a witness in court.

rodrigopetter 7y ago

768. Measure and mark cutting lines on materials, using a ruler, pencil, chalk, and marking gauge.

rorygibson 7y ago

https://www.ideasarecheap.net https://www.ideasarecheap.net ^^ I built this more or less on a bet about a year ago. Give it a dollar and it will give you a startup business idea. (No Markov chains here, it's a couple of arrays of industries and keywords and a JS function that uses Math.random()... )