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0 pointsjmnicolas8y ago0 comments

And there I thought that the ideas were the easy part :-)

Frankly I'm not sure you can succeed if you're just a mercenary (not trying to insult you).

To me it seems you're approaching the problem the wrong way : it shouldn't be about doing like everybody else or trying to be successful just because you think it will make you feel good but it should be about releasing this f* idea that is nagging you since years and that nobody can do better than you.

I have one of those ideas since 2007. One day ... ;-)

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gt28y ago· 1 in thread

Care to say what the problem is that your idea solves?

jmnicolasOP8y ago

Frankly I'd rather keep it to myself. I'm baffled that nobody thought about it since 10 years.

But right now I'm working on a back-end code generation tool : the user would just draw a data schema and once done get a database (as a script or as a container or directly in his cloud of choice) and scaffolding for the API.

The data schema is based on a specific method that makes it simple to think about your data without having to grok foreign keys.

I'm not sure I can pull it off but I want to see how far I can go.

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nell8y ago

Counterexamples: Jeff Bezos, Jeff Lawson(Twilio) contemplated many ideas before starting on one.

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