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Interesting concept, and shows the fallacy of the "dime a dozen" axiom.

Bad ideas, sure, I'll pay ten cents for a dozen mediocre ideas.

The truly good idea, the novel and meaningful, that can go for so much more.

This is an interesting counterpoint to the the idea that an MBA is worthless in a new venture. Smart hackers will claim that ideas are $0.10/12, but an idea that is validated by market research, takes into account distribution with a well thought out marketing, is fundable, etc. is worth a great deal more.

Not saying MBA idea are good or even better on average, but the market for ideas isn't a "Dollar" store where everything is one price.

Someone write a bot that takes the top 1000 sites, and mashes up combos in the format "site X for Y" where X is a random site, and Y is a demographic.

Wikipedia for students.

YouTube for grandmas.

etc.

I'd love to see a list of the ideas he gets with ranking and ability to vote them up/down.
This is posted in "general community". Is he even asking for business ideas or just any random thought?
I think this would be better targeted at Amazon Mechanical Turks. Its demographic is mainly made of people that do little tasks for little payments.
I did something similar on mechanical turk. Mine was called "two cents for your two cents" and I got some interesting ideas, although most of them were pretty lame.