Napkin-style business plan generator (bplan.lensu.com)

38 points by hinathan ↗ HN
Inspired by the cliche of a business plan scrawled on a napkin, I decided to spend my evening making this silly graphviz wrapper. Sometimes its output reads like the basis for a plausible pitch.

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I probably should have submitted this as a 'Show HN'
Permalinks would be nice so people can pass around their "Exploit $$$ -> ??? -> $$$$$$" napkins.
Good idea — didn't make the first cut but I've added them now. Thanks!
"Show HN" should be one of the nouns. ;)
Awesome, but repeats pretty quickly.

Idea: extend vocab with pitches of actual startups. Bonus: by chance, it will occasionally regurgitate those; and perhaps some good, not yet existing ones...

EDIT not exact repeats, just the same keywords. EDIT2 I think it was just some bad luck; it's repeated much less often just now.

BTW: clever to seed rand with the permalink code, and generate with deterministic random numbers. I was wondering how you did the mapping.

If you're seeing repeats that's probably a bug, as this is supposed to be both random and fairly varied. I'm torn — adding permalinks has now made it much more complex to extend or revise the lexicon. I'll probably need to version the input text lists and embed those versions in the permalink, but that's a bit much for what's left of my day (1am where I am).
Hipster.com obviously used this tool: http://bplan.lensu.com/?plan=7BfKD

Any ideas on how to leverage mobile and ubiquitize pivotal synergy in value-added hipsterspace? I believe clownsourced NoSQL might hold the key to scaling idiosyncratically while leapfrogging toward tractors in the field.

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This made my day. Pull #trending from twitter as optional dictionary :)
It's good, but needs more Machine Learning(TM).