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Random Ideas For Sites and Startups

by pepeto on 8/18/12, 2:56 PM with 27 comments

• by true_religion on 8/18/12, 3:46 PM

  > Live Cam Porn – site with channels. People watch only live. The better girls perform, the better rating. The more people visit, the more money girls will make through revenue sharing. You can pay money to be the one to interact with the girl (tell them to do things, talk with them etc).

  This is a solved problem. :)

  I'm really surprised the author hasn't run into it before.

  > Chat Support

  This sounds like a great idea, but I think we'd have a problem finding qualified parties to do it 24/7.

  It might work for lower grade work though like Wordpress support.

  > Your Recipes – A site where you keep your own recipes.

  Recipee sites do exist. I wonder what their short comings are in his eyes.

  > Discussion Board Online –

  Sounds a little like Branch.com as described.

• by brackin on 8/18/12, 4:40 PM

  It's a bad idea to take a startup idea from this list and attempt to make a company out of it. You have to find something you're passionate about or something you want to fix.

  I seem to come up with ideas daily which was somewhat of a problem but when I wanted to work on my second company I wasn't sure what to do and tried to brainstorm ideas, this eventually failed but I did come up with an idea I'm passionate about outside of this process.

• by manojlds on 8/18/12, 4:17 PM

  Are these original? In app referal? Aren't there many already?

  chat support? The example given, SO, HAS chat.

  Mindmaps online? Used many.

  And some perverted ideas!

• by denysonique on 8/18/12, 3:50 PM

  "Vision without execution is hallucination" I have myself plenty of awesome ideas. I have noticed other people executing similar ideas and getting millions of funding. Ideas are worthless until you actually start working hard and execute them.

• by AznHisoka on 8/18/12, 4:42 PM

  As for #1)In-app Referrals - I'm not so sure if this would be a business, but on the topic of apps, why not make a "Compete.com for apps", where you can track how many downloads a specific keyword can net you, or how many downloads another app has over time. of course, this type of data is only known by Apple, but you can run some heuristics for estimating it.

  Also app-store optimization is something that's relatively unsaturated now. Perhaps some sort of tool that runs statistics and gives you correlations on what factors goes into an app ranking high for a keyword.

• by klearvue on 8/18/12, 3:21 PM

  "Mobile Mating App – You define your gender and parameters of your phone. Then you mate it with other peoples phones..." -

  hmm, all my phones are spayed and neutered to prevent phone overpopulation.

• by dong on 8/18/12, 4:34 PM

  > Real Life Game

  Though I've never tried it out, look at http://www.superbetter.com for an interesting take on this idea.

  Plus the relevant TED talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfBpsV1Hwqs

• by austenallred on 8/18/12, 6:24 PM

  I'm willing to bet he was a little horny and/or lonely while writing this.

  And while I think few if any are actually good ideas, you have to respect someone for posting their brainstormings publicly. Yet HNers will tear through and criticize each one like he was pitching them for funding.

• by mukaiji on 8/18/12, 6:10 PM

  And for every idea mentioned, i thought to myself: "There's a startup for that."

• by cfontes on 8/18/12, 4:28 PM

  90% of those already exist... did you at search for any of those ?

• by dedene on 8/18/12, 3:32 PM

  For "Online Mindmaps", there is already the awesome http://www.mindmeister.com/?r=5892 software!

• by thejosh on 8/18/12, 3:23 PM

  Website doesn't work here.

• by corporalagumbo on 8/18/12, 4:14 PM

  uh... let me get this straight: live cam porn?

  what the fuck. what sort of "idea" is that? are you a pervert or something? or do you just have no respect for women maybe? do you have experience interacting with normal human beings?