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The funny thing about this — is that quite a lot of people can help others — while not being able to help themselves. I had a startup idea — for people in need
by coolhoody 4y ago
The funny thing about this — is that quite a lot of people can help others — while not being able to help themselves.
I had a startup idea — for people in need of such help helping and motivating each other — noticing that I can solve rather complex problems of others while being a prize moron within my own code block.
Didn't follow through due to d.
My advice to you is:
1. Don't be discouraged if this dies in 'New', it'll go off when it's ready.
2. Always condense your pitches — to nontrivial taglines, then expand with clear tag:reason for the busier people.
3. Be a tad more self-confident. Not in your guru skills — that's bad manners — but in the idea itself. All gurus are shit, except this one: https://youtu.be/8An2SxNFvmU https://youtu.be/8An2SxNFvmU
- altdataseller 4y agoOh man, That guru has some really profound, enlightening advice... Really eye-opening, thanks for the rec!
- psyc 4y agoThat guy gets it. Just what I needed to hear and the accent I needed to hear it in.
- fouc 4y agodue to what? is d. short for death?
- samh748 4y agomaybe depression?
- coolhoody 4y agoor diarrhea. An idea for an app — 'Big D': Connects people with diarrhea — so they can know someone truly understands their pain. Unless this timeline already has one.
- missedthecue 4y agoIt's called UberEats
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- gurjeet 4y agoFull version of Self Help Singh's video, for those interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rerBnAKPn0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rerBnAKPn0
- samh748 4y agoYou don't realize how much you needed to laugh your butt off until it happens.
- L0in 4y agoOne of the things that i find strange and sometimes annoys me about HN is that every idea needs to be a startup... Why? Your idea could also become a collective or a non-profit the very least...
- coolhoody 4y agoMy plan was non-profit, corporate sponsorship, plus voluntarily member donations. Used the term 'startup' just because it's short for 'big complex IT project based on some assumptions'. Besides my own issues, I simply found too many holes in my original idea — where this idyllic utopia could go wrong. I still keep the idea on the heap — currently evaluating an idea of professionally supervised chat groups. But I'd be glad if someone steals the idea before I find every way it could lead to the extinction of koalas and collapse of the Hilbert space.
- FerociousTimes 4y agoCould you please elaborate more on the business idea that you have if you don't mind?
- coolhoody 4y agoNothing is finalized yet.
- muzani 4y agoEverything looks like a nail
- derbOac 4y agoI completely agree that there are many options outside of startups, even for business ventures, and I wish this were discussed more. However, this is a forum associated with a startup funding institution, so it's not that strange to me there would be that bias here.