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Maybe a "painful problems" spreadsheet would be more appropriate. This reminds me of something Paul Graham called "sitcom startup ideas" in a recent post.
by samrat 14y ago
Maybe a "painful problems" spreadsheet would be more appropriate.
This reminds me of something Paul Graham called "sitcom startup ideas" in a recent post.
- borplk 14y agoI highly support something like that. At some point I even wanted to create a listing website where people can submit "pain points" for others to solve. A "Pain Point Directory".
- kintamanimatt 14y agoI'm not necessarily sure why anybody in their right mind would create such a thing and share it! Ideas are less valuable than execution, but ideas are valuable nonetheless! People should really be solving their own painful problems anyway (always better to be your own customer!) whose solutions can in some way be successfully and profitably exchanged for money.
- netcan 14y agoSome exercises work better collaboratively.
- TeMPOraL 14y ago> I'm not necessarily sure why anybody in their right mind would create such a thing and share it! Best startup ideas are about solving real problems. Some people care about problems getting solved, whether or not they are the ones doing the solving. Keep in mind that no one has enough time to try and solve all the problems at once. So if you see something wrong that needs to be fixed, and you don't have time to do it yourself (because you're busy fixing something else), why not just share it with people, so that someone else might work on it, thus helping to make our world a better place?
- kintamanimatt 14y agoThat's reasonable however I've always been of the opinion that it's better to solve a problem when you have the problem and are feeling the pain, rather than implementing someone's idea in the abstract. It always seems that the people who are really solving their own painful problems capture a market. Maybe other people are better at implementing someone else's idea than me and I'm just viewing the world through Matt-colored glasses.
- indiecore 14y agoconspiracy theory What if this is the writers of that new Silicon Valley comedy show soliciting ideas for their characters w/o having to pay writers!?
- TeMPOraL 14y agoIf they are not behind it, we should still send them this link. They could certainly make use of some of those ideas, maybe with a little bit of twist here and there to make them more comic. I doubt writers could get better startup ideas than actual SV people and SV-wannabies :).
- indiecore 14y agoIn the original thread I made the joke that they don't really need writers, just a bot that reads popular HN blogspam all day. Sad thing is it's true.