Show HN: Idea Minr – Business Ideas Aggregator(ideaminr.com) |
Show HN: Idea Minr – Business Ideas Aggregator(ideaminr.com) |
This site may have been intended to inspire startup founders or side-project hustlers, but it does the opposite for me: it has shown me the folly of trying to make it as one of those!
Going forward I'm sticking to proven, local, likely service-based businesses.
Thanks, stevematzai. Very enlightening site, even if it didn't help in the way you would have liked. :)
Just realize that MOST ideas are iterative and not truly innovative. Nothing wrong with that, but there is going to be a ton of competition when you build a Chrome Plugin that does one neat copy and paste... even if it is very useful.
(Useful Tool Example:) Citationsy for Chrome: Cite anything in one-click right from Chrome
And honestly a lot of ideas might be interesting or funny... but they aren't even good ideas.
(Funny but Stupid Example:) howlongisyourdong.com is now on product hunt: GROW UP YOUR E-PENIS RIGHT NOW :
And some ideas are just wishes for things that obviously aren't going to turn out well in execution.
(Product won't match customer desire Example:) Your mobile app needs a website. I built Flycricket to generate and host a site for you!:
If you come up with an idea that is truly disruptive, that isn't something everyone in your field has been asking for for years. You should pursue it. But it should stand out on a list like this, not fit right in.
Edit: Many people do well building out the extremely obvious ideas that everyone wants. But to do well that way you should be talented, work extremely hard, and be well funded if you want to beat the competition.
There aren't thousands. There's like 200+ on that list right now.
And if I am understanding this right, a lot of those don't seem like they're "daily"
There's also a lot of pointless and silly stuff in there. For example, the one about a microwave that stops before it rings, or the one that filters top level domains (tlds).
An entire section isn't even real businesses, just wishes for one.
There are only a handful of actual serious businesses that can generate money listed here. Something like ~10. Even assuming this was daily, that would be 3k+ new serious businesses per year. That should be way higher, like 10x as much given how low the barrier to entry is for a modern day business (especially in software).
All things considered, it is much easier to get a paying customer with a proven local business idea than an online business.
sidenote: opened up the main page to hunt for RSS (or similar). Though none exist, surprised that everything was on a single line. My poor (lightweight) external editor stopped loading the page at the 50k character mark (hard limit for allowed characters per line).
[0]: https://www.data.gov
I wish the world has more people with technical chops and less “idea guys.” Knowledge of customer and ability to build the minimum viable product is worth more than 100k ideas.
Advice:
- Make two text columns vertically.
- Chose better colours. Either learn colour readability, or pick a palette from a generator.
Keep it simple, align to the left and put some margins to center the content.
That's a real example from a meetup I went to the other day. Two solar engineers who were tired of drawing these solar plant plans and realized a computer would do it faster and better. They're killing it.
Many software engineers rely on domain experts to come along with good ideas to execute on. Maybe ideas matter immensely after all.
Which is to say, ideas matter a lot, but no one who subscribes to the saying has ever noticed that they're auto-rejecting bad and terrible ideas constantly, and have also never had a great idea.
That saying exists to deter procrastination, obsession with being first, being secret and other mistakes people make.
But ideas do matter. Google AdWords' bidding model was an idea (I think overture had the first quality implementation at scale). That idea was/is responsible for adding 0s to Google's as income.
“ The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20.
The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.
That’s why I don’t want to hear people’s ideas.
I’m not interested until I see their execution. “
I’ve since heard this referenced and repeated by numerous successful entrepreneurs.
Let me know if you disagree.
There are plenty of good executioners out there who dont succeed because their idea or timing isnt good enough.
Good ideas give you something to strive for, something to think alongside i would say good ideas is the very reason a team execute well in most cases.