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This project posts one new startup idea every day for a year
- chenster 7y agoLike https://nugget.one/ideas https://nugget.one/ideas?
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- amelius 7y agoIt seems that most of these startups are in the space of what I would call low-tech, i.e. smartphone apps and websites.
- dreamer7 7y agoAre you implying anything by "low-tech" or just an observation?
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- vearwhershuh 7y agoice cream trucks but for toilet paper
- ackbar03 7y agoI'd invest
- senectus1 7y agoMobile supermarkets with base requirements (TP, Sanitary Napkins, Water, various Food stuff). Drive around take requests through a perspex wall, stick items in a secure box and push through to outside truck. This concept has legs if ask you me. Wish i had the capital and time to try it.
- bryanrasmussen 7y agoI was thinking of that recently as Covid-19 idea, but of course you need to have it ready before hand.
- gherkinnn 7y agoThey do exist at festivals. (minus the hygienic aspect of course)
- omnimus 7y agoIn my country this is still common in countryside without the secure box. Various "themed" trucks go through small villages and you can hail/stop them to buy stuff. They also each have their theme music so you know which one is it.p
- Waterluvian 7y agoA service where you agree ahead of time and whenever you need a dental appointment instead of emailing you they just kidnap you with a panel van and you wake up later after the procedure. Toothly: Anxiety free dentistry.
- ludamad 7y agoAny services to deal with my anxiety about randomly being kidnapped?
- trevyn 7y agoTwist: They kidnap you in your sleep with anaesthetic gas.
- jsty 7y agoTwist or premium plan feature? ;)
- dsamarin 7y agoInteresting. So you don't even have to know that you just had surgery. You could just go to sleep as you would normally, wake up, and everything is better. if anything you'll probably think you just had some weird kind of dream because of the anesthesia.
- enchiridion 7y agoSounds straight out of golden age of dystopian novels.
- toxicFork 7y agoThis will really mess you up psychologically and question your reality and your agency for a while.
- savolai 7y ago
- jv22222 7y agoSome useful reading/viewing on this subject: Ideas are just multipliers: https://sivers.org/multiply https://sivers.org/multiply Idea vs Execution: https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-think-is-more-important-the-idea-or-the-execution https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-think-is-more-important-th... Timing is an important factor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNpx7gpSqbY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNpx7gpSqbY
- smabie 7y agoI'm not sure I'd call any of these billion dollar ideas, but some of them are interesting nonetheless.
- samdung 7y agoAh! Ideas are cheap. Implementation is hard.
- amelius 7y agoThis is why patents are stupid.
- balfirevic 7y agoBut patents are supposed to cover implementation, are they not? (I know they are completely messed up and don't work properly for that purpose currently)
- alephnil 7y agoPatents are not required to cover implementation details, and in fact, it is not even required to lay out any detail of the mechanism. As an extreme example of this physicist Leo Szilard was granted a patent on nuclear chain reaction in 1936, three years before it was discovered scientifically. It was sufficient for the British patent office that if such a mechanism existed, it could release large amounts of energy. This may be an extreme example, but it illustrates that implementation details is not a requirement for a patent. This is also the case for a lot of software patents. They are broad enough to cover nearly anything, but not detailed enough to be useful as a description to build useful technology.
- lonelappde 7y agoIn the US, a patent requires enablement (ability to make it). That can be squishy, of course, as it doesn't require a working prototype. https://www.upcounsel.com/difference-between-patentable-and-non-patentable https://www.upcounsel.com/difference-between-patentable-and-...
- speedgoose 7y agoOne new stupid startup idea every day.
- mindfulplay 7y agoIdeas are incredibly cheap. Execution is hard as someone else pointed out. Beyond that, a random AI crapsoup of techonerdmangled words would give a pretty good "billion dollar idea": AI ML crypto spaceship Nano modular ML-based DNA aggregator Crypto but actually is useful And some of the most important ideas require the most boring execution: - safe, clean toilets for the next billion - all-display walls, e-paper that can act as lights too - instead of self driving cars how about simple government intervention to provide sensors on roads for augmented-driving cars? - continuous study of flu via most populated areas to predict flu vaccine 6 months from now (Bedford lab but super charged and automated) - and finally, 5$ hospital saline solution These seem stupid and naive but I believe they are some of the most important "ideas" and again without any execution plans.
- petra 7y agoThose ideas may be important. but they aren't valuable. Valuable ideas are protectable. Valuable ideas are quite often, unique and relatively secret(for example, secret in your industry). Often valuable ideas are not just a one liner. That's just lazy. But they're a deep, complex understanding about something. Valuable ideas allow great amplification of execution, where a small amount execution can create large rewards. And let's say you're just mediocre at execution. But you have valuable ideas, often. Couldn't you join a startup, help it succeed and possibly rewarded handsomely ? Couldn't you join a big co., and become a very useful employee and be rewarded for it ?
- savolai 7y agoNowadays, the ideas/execution dichotomy seems to be repeated more or less blindly whenever ideas are discussed. (I do hear you and what you say above though - not blaming you for this, just responding with what arises in me. I'm not saying the following to devalue execution - just to devalue the dichotomy.) I suppose that this is/was originally a well founded defense against, for instance, people being overprotective about their business ideas to a degree that it was undermining actually getting the implementation done. To me this seems to mask the fact that not all ideas are made equal. There may be a mountain of user research behind one idea, and another may be just a spark of "wouldn't it be cool if..." As long as we're working with information, all we're ever doing is in one sense or another dealing with ideas. If we only respect the work of those who deal with the business game or with the bits & bolts, we will keep ending up with poor user/client experiences. Understanding the ideas inside the head of the user often is the difference between a functional product and a brilliantly enjoyable one.
- terrycody 7y agoSome are really interesting, to be honest.