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John Cleese (Monty Python writer) on how to be creative(youtube.com)
1 points by mikkel 14y ago|0 comments
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by mikkel 14y ago
On commercial qualities, there are business plan competitions that MBAs do a ton - here's a post from someone who thinks they are useless: http://steveblank.com/2010/05/17/no-one-wins-in-business-pla... After a decade of development I am
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by mikkel 14y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VShmtsLhkQg John Cleese of monty python talks about creativity and it's essence. May be relevant and is definitely fun.
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by mikkel 14y ago
Idea quality is hard to quantify. I don't really worry about the quality of the ideas until I'm choosing another project to work on. Some people advocate using an idea validation board: http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2012/10/02/the-va
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Ask HN: How do you find product ideas?
11 points by mikkel 14y ago|12 comments
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by mikkel 14y ago
There are a few javascript-based solutions for testing * Optimizely (A YC company with a WYSIWYG editor for specifying variants) * Xander.io (Targeted at developers with HTML5 markup to specify variants - full disclosure I help with this pr
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by mikkel 14y ago
Very cool styling - there are some messaging concerns as karolisd mentioned. For instance, I was a bit confused as to why I was reading about other services / how you don't change my inbox labels and configuration instead of reading about w
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by mikkel 14y ago
This article really resonated with me - I have been trying an idea-a-day experiment for the past couple of months and the key to this is, as you put: "Most of your ideas will suck, but that's fine. Just write them all down. Every. Single. S
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by mikkel 14y ago
This is a deceptively large project and has many aspects. 1) Cataloging video content. Some sites may have APIs you can plug into, but others wont and will require writing a scraper or 10. 2) Creating a search algorithm - how do signify se
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by mikkel 14y ago
I can't quite figure out how to play. Every movement results in me losing a life in some way. I'm on osx/chrome if that helps.
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by mikkel 14y ago
multivariate or multivariant? Full disclosure: I help with this project and it's quite awesome.
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by mikkel 14y ago
I've just spent about 15 minutes reading an article by Paul Graham written in 1993. This site is terrible for my productivity - very well done you evil person you.
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by mikkel 14y ago
Very cool - I've seen website plugins that embed a chatroom, but never a chatroom plugin that lists active websites as rooms. A couple of issues: * The badge indicating the number of connected users looks like a notification you would get w
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by mikkel 14y ago
I signed up - A few thoughts: * Get rid of the FB like counter unless you can inflate it. It looks like a ghost town. * Music is one of the most polarizing items in existence. Use that. Something like 'once you sign up, you can add a son
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by mikkel 14y ago
Damn that animation looks fluid! I don't have an iPhone so I can't check it out - just thought I'd offer some encouragement Also are you planning to make an API around the handwriting engine?
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by mikkel 14y ago
The one big issue I see is lack of a small concrete goal. > Like a blog that allows publishing of content of any size or type (long-form, mirco-updates, videos & photos using oembed, links, quotes) via a single textarea. Take any on
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by mikkel 14y ago
> Code reviews are an antipattern and should die in a fire. They slow down the development process without bringing any benefits. Woah slow down there soldier. Code reviews are great for many reasons: 1) Introducing new technologies or
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by mikkel 14y ago
I ask my bosses what my passion should be every morning like a good american. Just kidding I develop apps on the side so I can pretend like I'm doing something interesting with my life.
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by mikkel 14y ago
Very cool idea - starting a conversation on an image. The issues I see: 1) The image(s) are easily obscured by comments. 2) Alerts, alerts everywhere. I could see this having a very broad appeal to any type of community that uses images. M
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by mikkel 14y ago
Open Graph is about recording how people interact with a site. IE I just Loved a Product at Fab. What you are looking for is a deeper probe into the facebook graph API to find someone's photos and their tags. It's likely to get hairy. I'd
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by mikkel 14y ago
Cool idea - it needs a little more instruction - I was a bit confused as to how to use it at times. Like once you create an event a "Great! Now share this URL with anyone you'd like to invite to EVENT"
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by mikkel 14y ago
no worries - I remember playing in a sealed tournament years ago, and it was extremely fun. Thanks for sharing, you should post this on the MTG forums. It's pretty cool now that I know what it's for. I would want to have a running total of
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by mikkel 14y ago
Love the landing page. It looks like a mailchimp targeted at developers. That said, it's not clear why I would use this over sendgrid or amazon's email service (better prices? easier API?) That being said, there is definitely room for thi
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by mikkel 14y ago
Ha this is cool - my wife and I love to play MTG. Question - how would you use this? I imagine you could import these cards into a booster-pack tournament? Obviously the display of the cards could be spruced up. Maybe add in the number of
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by mikkel 14y ago
We wrote this tool to keep track of our own ideas in a more organized way. You own all your ideas but can share them easily. We figured we should share this with the hackernews community since this place is full of great ideas. We'd love a
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Show HN: 255 Ideas - store and share ideas using markdown(255ideas.com)
3 points by mikkel 14y ago|1 comments
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by mikkel 14y ago
First off: This idea is really cool. I've been playing around with user-contributed story creation as well, and I must say you've done a much better job than I dreamed of. That said, I feel theres some room for improvement: 1) It's hard to
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by mikkel 14y ago
This is a really cool concept - all the social monitoring tools I've seen focus on social networks (fb, twitter, that sort of stuff), which is great for some companies with an existing fanbase - not so much for startups. I've signed up :)