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There is nothing sacred enough to be protected from the words stupid, shit, fuck or any other word.

• jmzwar 11y ago
  My point isn't that stupid ideas don't exist, but that the great ones seem stupid. Dropbox was criticised on here; many thought AirBnb stupid.
  • jasonjei 11y ago
    Agreed! So was Facebook--it was just another MySpace clone. Or Google--another search engine. Sometimes the best ideas are seemingly stupid and pointless. I think the name is tongue-in-cheek because "stupid things" tend to become great ideas. I think it's a great idea this is going on.
    • jmzwar 11y ago
      If you accept that then you've missed the broader point. Not a single founder would want their idea to appear on next years board of stupid ideas to satirise.
    • RobertKerans 11y ago
      No, it's not tongue-in-cheek: staggeringly, stupid ideas generally (like, as in 99.9% generally) aren't, or don't become great ideas.
      • mistercow 11y ago
        I agree, except you need more 9s.
  • crpatino 11y ago
    Ok, I am going to bite. AirBnb is stupid. Every child that has heard about the Little Red Riding Hood should be able to figure that out. The fact that we do not hear about even more horrible incidents regarding this service is for the most part due to society being overwhelmingly composed of more or less moral individuals (with an active remediation and PR campaign from the incumbents as a distant second reason). But I find hard to believe that anyone who can do any half decent risk assessment would sign in for that kind of liability.