While true, I find that I have a very hard time coming up with ideas that I could implement as a side project that makes money. Something like this could potentially be helpful.
This is barebones. What we also need is some market analysis and some SWOT analysis. I have been thinking of a crowdsourced website where each startup is profiled under the categories 1) SWOT 2)Market size 3)Competitors 4)what does it take to build MVP.
This site seems to take a MadLibs style of 'product that exists' for 'company type that exists'.
Surely there are legitimate results from that, but not without a lot more work.
All the ideas are good to generate money, but bad for mankind and civilization. There's already too much vendor lock-in and ausence of communication between platforms.
We should aim for a single tool that would serve for all kinds of businesses. What's the difference between a CRM for salons and one for bookstores? Probably something that could be sold as a plugin, or -- if the underlying system is good enough -- implemented with a bit of custom code.
That's what Fieldbook and Airtable are trying to do, and I sincerely hope they succeed (although they're awful, the tool I'm building myself is much better).
HUGE ANNOYING problem with OppsDaily is that it FAILS to connect the makers with the "Wanters". See the comments on the top voted ideas for example. Most have 2 or 3 engineers / makers begging for contact info of the requestor / Wanters.
The idea this generated for me is a "SaaS Generator" site. Rather than a random idea, user would select industry and service and business model, etc. and then click "generate my application". Generated app would have a polished placeholder responsive web site with multi-tentant IdP and drip email marketing and GA analytics Stripe and QuickBooks accounting, and ... - all the stuff you'd do for a SaaS business. Then add some copy and pricing and see if it sticks. Not not much Minimal Viable Product and "Minimal Viable Pitch". Generate a dozen businesses and then see which gets the most traffic. I think such a SaaS Generator site would be super helpful.
Meta idea: Have a web-page like this that splashes random words to generate ideas and measure the click rate of users hitting the refresh button. The longer the pause, likely the better the idea, at which point you flag that as a potential good one for yourself.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 73.1 ms ] threadIdeas have no intrinsic value.
To get an idea: gather the names of 50 software companies and perhaps 50 companies in other areas. Research all of them.
Somewhere in those 100 businesses, there is a domain that interests you, with a product that you can improve on or market differently.
There's your side project.
I think such a site will be valuable
This site seems to take a MadLibs style of 'product that exists' for 'company type that exists'. Surely there are legitimate results from that, but not without a lot more work.
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[Edit] More detailed/serious explanation: https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMC_05.htm
We should aim for a single tool that would serve for all kinds of businesses. What's the difference between a CRM for salons and one for bookstores? Probably something that could be sold as a plugin, or -- if the underlying system is good enough -- implemented with a bit of custom code.
That's what Fieldbook and Airtable are trying to do, and I sincerely hope they succeed (although they're awful, the tool I'm building myself is much better).
Good idea, terrible execution.
Just deploy a webserver that prints "0"
Why are the keywords underlined but not clickable??
Violates Basic web usage guidelines and is confusing!!
Edit: If someone is interested in all the "ideas", just open the .js file and scroll to bottom.