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um...bad ideas isn't one big contiguous space. there are good bad ideas and bad bad ideas. good bad ideas are those where you are trying to solve a problem or
by nazgulnarsil 18y ago
um...bad ideas isn't one big contiguous space. there are good bad ideas and bad bad ideas.
good bad ideas are those where you are trying to solve a problem or do something fun, but your execution isn't that great.
bad bad ideas are those that invent a problem that doesn't exist and then solve it (watch infomercials).
- demallien 18y agoBut I would have thought that the MoneyBeamer example from the article (becomes PayPal) would classify as a bad bad idea going by your definition, and yet... I think that the important thing is that you need to build the full widget, even if it is a bad idea. At some point during widget development, you'll nearly always have to solve a problem that could be applied to another domain with more success.
- nazgulnarsil 18y agoI think the core idea was just to make money exchange easier via electronic means. their implementation was a good bad idea. But I think it depends on how much resources you are going to commit to it. building a widget = no risk. starting a company based on moneybeaming was a bigger risk. With cheap implementations you can afford to play around with bad bad ideas until you at least get a good bad one. :)