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I think that ideas have nothing to do with people. There is a general human race intelligence eather where ideas boil and and when one particular human comes up
by skolos 12y ago
I think that ideas have nothing to do with people. There is a general human race intelligence eather where ideas boil and and when one particular human comes up with an idea, there are probably 10 others that at the same time have the same idea. If you investigate carefully you'll notice that there are no breakthroughs. All ideas are incremental. Einstein was genius, but even his work was incremental [1].
Why I am saying this - we applied to YC this year with exactly same idea. It looks like even details of the implementation are similar.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_priority_dispute http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_priority_dispute
- bcjordan 12y agoThat concept is known as multiple discovery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery (or "simultaneous invention")
- guymorita 12y agoAgreed. That's also why implementation is king. We were building an app 2 years ago that was exactly like 4snaps (finally climbing the charts) but we didn't keep with it or ever do it full-time. Ideas are cheap.