The best use for HalfBakery.com in my experience, is as Snopes for Ideas. If someone guardedly shares their own half-baked idea over dinner (especially if they

The best use for HalfBakery.com in my experience, is as Snopes for Ideas. If someone guardedly shares their own half-baked idea over dinner (especially if they think they need to find a technical partner, investor, or get a patent), rather than give them a lecture about customer development, I tell them it sounds interesting and send them a link to Half-Bakery or http://www.cambrianhouse.com/idea/ http://www.cambrianhouse.com/idea/. The hit rate is shockingly high. And even if they don't find their idea, they'll realize ideas are a dime a dozen and start focusing on how to validate whether their idea actually has legs. edit: there->their