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Napkin-style business plan generator

38 points by hinathan 15y ago

Inspired by the cliche of a business plan scrawled on a napkin, I decided to spend my evening making this silly graphviz wrapper. Sometimes its output reads like the basis for a plausible pitch.

hinathan 15y ago
I probably should have submitted this as a 'Show HN'
- Gigablah 15y ago
  Permalinks would be nice so people can pass around their "Exploit $$$ -> ??? -> $$$$$$" napkins.
  - hinathan 15y ago
    Good idea — didn't make the first cut but I've added them now. Thanks!
- egometry 15y ago
  "Show HN" should be one of the nouns. ;)
6ren 15y ago
Awesome, but repeats pretty quickly. Idea: extend vocab with pitches of actual startups. Bonus: by chance, it will occasionally regurgitate those; and perhaps some good, not yet existing ones... EDIT not exact repeats, just the same keywords. EDIT2 I think it was just some bad luck; it's repeated much less often just now. BTW: clever to seed rand with the permalink code, and generate with deterministic random numbers. I was wondering how you did the mapping.
- hinathan 15y ago
  If you're seeing repeats that's probably a bug, as this is supposed to be both random and fairly varied. I'm torn — adding permalinks has now made it much more complex to extend or revise the lexicon. I'll probably need to version the input text lists and embed those versions in the permalink, but that's a bit much for what's left of my day (1am where I am).
itmag 15y ago
Hipster.com obviously used this tool: http://bplan.lensu.com/?plan=7BfKD http://bplan.lensu.com/?plan=7BfKD Any ideas on how to leverage mobile and ubiquitize pivotal synergy in value-added hipsterspace? I believe clownsourced NoSQL might hold the key to scaling idiosyncratically while leapfrogging toward tractors in the field.
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pbjorklund 15y ago
This made my day. Pull #trending from twitter as optional dictionary :)
revorad 15y ago
It's good, but needs more Machine Learning(TM).
digisth 15y ago
This goes along well with the Web Economy BS Generator: http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html There's real potential for organic synergy and interdisciplinary cross-pollination here.
rplnt 15y ago
I wonder how food trucks get there. http://bplan.lensu.com/?plan=y4dgf http://bplan.lensu.com/?plan=y4dgf
drKarl 15y ago
http://i2.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/000/248/underpants.jpg http://i2.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/000/248/und...

38 points by hinathan 15y ago

Inspired by the cliche of a business plan scrawled on a napkin, I decided to spend my evening making this silly graphviz wrapper. Sometimes its output reads like the basis for a plausible pitch.

hinathan 15y ago

I probably should have submitted this as a 'Show HN'

Gigablah 15y ago
Permalinks would be nice so people can pass around their "Exploit $$$ -> ??? -> $$$$$$" napkins.
- hinathan 15y ago
  Good idea — didn't make the first cut but I've added them now. Thanks!
egometry 15y ago
"Show HN" should be one of the nouns. ;)

6ren 15y ago

Awesome, but repeats pretty quickly. Idea: extend vocab with pitches of actual startups. Bonus: by chance, it will occasionally regurgitate those; and perhaps some good, not yet existing ones... EDIT not exact repeats, just the same keywords. EDIT2 I think it was just some bad luck; it's repeated much less often just now. BTW: clever to seed rand with the permalink code, and generate with deterministic random numbers. I was wondering how you did the mapping.

hinathan 15y ago
If you're seeing repeats that's probably a bug, as this is supposed to be both random and fairly varied. I'm torn — adding permalinks has now made it much more complex to extend or revise the lexicon. I'll probably need to version the input text lists and embed those versions in the permalink, but that's a bit much for what's left of my day (1am where I am).

itmag 15y ago

Hipster.com obviously used this tool: http://bplan.lensu.com/?plan=7BfKD http://bplan.lensu.com/?plan=7BfKD Any ideas on how to leverage mobile and ubiquitize pivotal synergy in value-added hipsterspace? I believe clownsourced NoSQL might hold the key to scaling idiosyncratically while leapfrogging toward tractors in the field.

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pbjorklund 15y ago

This made my day. Pull #trending from twitter as optional dictionary :)

revorad 15y ago

It's good, but needs more Machine Learning(TM).

digisth 15y ago

This goes along well with the Web Economy BS Generator: http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html There's real potential for organic synergy and interdisciplinary cross-pollination here.

rplnt 15y ago

I wonder how food trucks get there. http://bplan.lensu.com/?plan=y4dgf http://bplan.lensu.com/?plan=y4dgf

drKarl 15y ago

http://i2.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/000/248/underpants.jpg http://i2.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/000/248/und...