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?
And no, I don't enjoy or watch cam porn.
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.
You mean Branch.com?
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.
1) Well firstly you dont need to be passionate about something very specific. For example you can be passionate about making great websites that people love to use and thats it. Edison was passionate about inventing things (apparently also patenting them) for example.
2) I think brainstorming to think about what ideas you're passionate about is a great logical misstep( which I am also guilty of in the past). Rather, think about the things that people need and are willing to pay for and maybe ask yourself if you are really impassionate enough to not get into that market/business. (Ex: CRM Software is a booming market, yet I am too impassionate about that market to even consider getting into it.)
chat support? The example given, SO, HAS chat.
Mindmaps online? Used many.
And some perverted ideas!
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.
hmm, all my phones are spayed and neutered to prevent phone overpopulation.
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
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.
