Show HN: Don't let your billion-dollar ideas die

[curiousmindset]

Most great ideas are either forgotten or die in our notes app. So made this simple website in a day.

1. Save your ideas

2. Set an expiry

3. After expiry, the ideas goes public. So if you don't work on them, someone else probably will

[ryukoposting]

> A bidding market and app where beggars can bid for the most prime corners and intersections.

> A non-cancerous company review board (f glassdoor)

> Augmented-reality underwear

Good to know the internet is functioning as usual.

[K0balt]

For the bidding market, they will have to displace the existing cartels first. No kidding, these are often controlled by a superhobo, (in my hometown he now owns a house and a nice Tahoe) who “owns” all of the good corners in town. Idk what his take is, but by providing “protection” to corner operators, he seems to do quite well.

Still, Uber Hobo is still a great idea, you could overwhelm those small operators with flash mobs of hobos during the rollout phase and also accept in app payments so that UH could be assured its 35 percent. Also, as a value add, a BLE beacon that shows you already gave today and to not excessively harass you.

[bigfatkitten]

> A non-cancerous company review board (f glassdoor)

We used to have one of those.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company

[haliskerbas]

Half of these are a16z's next 10x idea. /s

[jsheard]

> Nuclear Landmines

You underestimate how stupid Cold War weapon projects got, they were putting nukes in anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_demolition_munition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Peacock

[jamesfinlayson]

Bat bombs (bombs full of bats with time-delayed releases of napalm) were developed in World War II.

[jcgrillo]

The Russians are working on their very own Project Pluto: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/9M730_Burevestnik

[Rendello]

> Chicken-powered nuclear bomb

Now that's an interesting section (second link)

[ethbr1]

I mean, if you need to apply 10+ tons of TNT-equivalent to a target, it's a heck of a lot easier to carry. (Also literally, SADM)

[grensley]

> Batteries that can store the internet in them for when your connection goes down.

This is now my favorite way to explain caching.

[pockmarked19]

A note from Jobs on why just having an idea doesn't work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kZ0zoDYOmM

Doesn't mean ideas aren't valuable, but the process is just as, if not more, important.

The full interview has more.

[curiousmindset]

great idea without execution <<< idea with great execution < great idea with great execution

[kylecazar]

"start podcast that is only ads"

Brilliant

[xnx]

This would be super useful as a training set for automatically identifying ads in podcasts that contain non-ad content.

[dogboat]

QVC!

[hiccuphippo]

Pro-tip: add an embarrassing story of yourself to force you to work on the idea before it expires (you can prevent an idea from expiring, right?)

[ramonverse]

Hi are the ideas supposed to be anonymous? because you are leaking everyone's names, just by opening network tab.

[curiousmindset]

Hey, i didn't decide on this yet. Initially i added the author names on the card so people can see who the idea came from and authors possibly get a little bit of credit.

But then i thought maybe some people are too shy to give their name away so it's best to remove them.

I was still in dilemma, so removed it from the UI but not from the api reponses ( will do it now )

In future, i'll just add an option in the profile, so you can choose to show your name if you want to

[laurent_du]

Pretty sure it's not the real pg who suggested "Venmo for dogs".

[frankus]

An earlier effort along similar lines can be seen at https://www.halfbakery.com

[ThatCreeper]

The frontend here only shows the 20 most recently published ideas which is arguably tragic as the other ones are still quite fun to read:

> Instead of just fries, let customers split their side order between different options (half fries, half onion rings) for the same price

> lawn sprinklers, but targeted with Ring

> Venmo for dogs

> website where you can pay people you know to shut up

I made an scrollable view here if anyone wants that

https://thatcreeper.github.io/IdeaWarehouse/

[sgjohnson]

> 3. After expiry, the ideas goes public. So if you don't work on them, someone else probably will

Heh, “someone else probably will” is such a strange way to say “no-one ever will” :D

[conductr]

Right, trying to throw off all the competition you’re sure to see with your new “Ad service that shaves company logos into stray cats” service

[hi_hi]

This is the HN equivalent of Boaty McBoatface. I love it.

[curiousmindset]

lol

[hdjY28]

> gay porn

I think someone already came up with this

> uber for blowjob

Limited only to certain geos where prostitution is legal; already exists in certain countries in some shape or form

[ryukoposting]

> uber for blowjob

Pretty sure that's just Snapchat.

[Uptrenda]

>Batteries that can store the internet in them for when your connection goes down.

This idea is kind of great though. Remember that mcmaster car website? One reason it was so fast is it would silently download the next pages before you visited them. Creating the impression of instant loading. Could we do something similar where a program constantly downloaded websites you were most likely to visit in the background? Eventually having both a mass archive of useful content over time and creating the impression that the web were instant? With how cheap storage space now is and how fast connections are maybe the bottleneck now is efficiency of user input.

[joshuaturner]

> Put hawk tuah in fortnite

some ideas deserve to die

[spacebanana7]

It’s hard to see that idea making less than a million dollars if implemented to be fair.

[aio2]

its a w idea

[jedberg]

People are messing with it, but I really like the idea. I put my real idea there. It's one I really like but I just don't have the time or expertise to execute it. I really hope someone "steals" it.

[curiousmindset]

thanks and glad you liked it :)

that's actually one of the main "idea" behind the website

[grensley]

This site is basically the Target to 4chan's Walmart.

[spaceflunky]

lol

just a lot less (overt) slurs and slightly more intelligible formatting

[henning]

Anyone else working on a mat with conclusions that you can jump to? Mine is going to integrate with AI. Somehow.

[Kon-Peki]

I made a prototype, but then I got hit by a truck. So maybe once the settlement comes in.

[egypturnash]

This is like highdeas without the charm.

[hdjY28]

> A battery powered and an LLM-powered sexdoll that talks like a real person and performs inference on-device without making requests to the server for privacy preservation

I’d invest in this

[igetspam]

> An AI-enabled juicer that squeezes single-serve bags of pre-juiced juices

This is why juicero failed! No AI!

[dgunay]

> Breakfast tapas

I wish you could comment on some of these or vote them "already implemented," because whoever wrote that needs to try Turkish breakfast.

[djbusby]

Or Dunkin

[airstrike]

I love how this has both "An antacid pill that you take once every six weeks." and "An antacid that you only take once a week."

It would be nice to be able to "like" the best ideas. Maybe show "hot" ideas in one column and a random sample on another column? This way readers get what's most relevant while preserving discoverability.

[left-struck]

> It would be nice to be able to "like" the best ideas. That’s basically r/ideas

[bambax]

This is excellent. Some features to add (maybe):

- voting

- tagging / filtering / sorting

- commenting? some way to let people meet around an idea?

Is there some sort of moderation currently?

[curiousmindset]

hey thanks !

just added voting feature, will add the rest as well

currently there is no moderation, i just made this as a fun project and didn't expect it to go this wild lol. will add it now

[ilaksh]

Can you add markdown support? I already submitted one with markdown (username 'runvnc') .. also maybe deal with longer entries like only show the first 250 characters in the box and the rest in a tooltip/hover or when you click up to 1000 characters or something. And then when you click you see the full idea and their contact info.

[curiousmindset]

sure, will add it today.

thanks for the tooltip idea ! I added the basic "Read more" truncation but it was looking ugly so removed it. Tooltip sounds better

[lbj]

> "Release a gorilla wearing a human costume at the gorilla costume contest"

Absolutely brilliant, 2 billion $ idea at least :)

[azhenley]

Similar premise to my blog post: Take my app ideas (https://austinhenley.com/blog/takemyappideas.html)

[acosmism]

since you put this out in the world... i might try one

[thrance]

Ideas are a dime a dozen, execution is key.

[Clubber]

This, and not only the development of the product, but marketing, distribution, payments, accounting, legal, etc.

I can't count the number of times someone came to me with an idea, suggesting I would do all the work, and we would split it 50/50. "What are you going to do?" "I had the idea." No thanks.

The funniest is when they want me to sign some sort of NDA. Nah.

[curiousmindset]

I 100% agree and believe the same.

Execution is 99%, and the idea is just 1%. But you still need that 1% to start in the first place.

The site is just there to help you achieve that 1%.

In the end, the execution is on to you :)

[neongreen]

I started a `#shitty-server-suggestions` channel in one of the Discords I'm in and it's my favorite type of channel. Now we have the same thing online! I'm genuinely happy

[luxuryballs]

0. an app where public ideas don’t require a login so I could have posted idea #1

1. an app where you can point to a body and it will show on the TV so the person behind you knows where to massage

[j45]

Neat idea - there's so many ideas for anyone to be able to get to that this is a great way to share with people who want to try to build a product instead of a project.

One thing to learn about is the timing of ideas and when the market is ready for it.

Also important is learning to build the small ideas that become big ideas.

[curiousmindset]

Thank you and that was indeed the idea behind this !

Also agree that sometimes solving a small, specific problem is what grows into something bigger.

[mouse_]

I really love this so much, and can see myself coming back to this page for years. would love to see a replies feature, and top/trending/controversial ideas section etc.

THANK YOU SO MUCH OP! GREAT IDEA!!

[curiousmindset]

heyy, thanks, it means a lot !

will add each and every feature you requested by this week.

[brandoniscool]

GREAT example of a Minimum Viable Product. Can't wait to see how this evolves. The devs definitely know what they're doing.

[ilaksh]

Also can you ban people who post actual trash like binary files.

[curiousmindset]

sure!

also just added a voting feature, will add content moderation as well.

[para_parolu]

In spite of all AI hype it should give task to Davin to build it

[FireSquid2006]

> uber for blowjobs

[joshdavham]

If prostitution were ever legalized and regulated (which is not entirely implausible), this could be a viable idea.

I woudn't work on it though.

[zer8k]

1. Rewrite Rust in Git

2. Airbnb for public benches

3. Podcast that is only ads

These are the ideas I want to see

[CapeTheory]

Cal Newport beat you to #3

[curiousmindset]

Update -

Added these features -

Voting, Infinite Scroll & Sorting ( Trending, Top Voted & Most Recent )

Right now working on Comments, will probably ship it by tomorrow

[MeetingsBrowser]

Tried signing in with Twitter but when I clock "Authorize App" I get:

> Something went wrong. Please make sure the data you entered is correct.

[curiousmindset]

hey, sorry for the trouble, will fix it today

thanks for letting me know !

[schneehertz]

Interesting and useless, it's really great!

[curiousmindset]

Thanks everyone for all the suggestions and ideas so far.

Just added a voting system based on your feedback.

Will soon add:

- Content moderation

- Truncating large ideas on the UI

- Support for markdown

[hotpockets]

need comments. but try to make it cultural that comments should be optimistic/helpful.

[Uptrenda]

You could easily turn these ideas into a poster. Get the funniest ideas and sell them as merch.

[randomcatuser]

this app is amazing

[curiousmindset]

thanks!

[gjsman-1000]

> “A communist cosmetic surgery that takes good looking parts of faces and gives them to those in need.”

Great idea, Hollywood first!

[internet_points]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron

[pwillia7]

I LOVE IT!!!!!

[curiousmindset]

Thanks a lot !!

[DannyBee]

So the game is to add something controversial but not stupid enough to be obvious satire right?

I went with "a captcha where you match surveillance footage to mugshots to help solve crime"

[brettgriffin]

the dating app idea seems pretty fire. hit me up if you want to work on it

[motohagiography]

maybe framing them as ideas at all is self defeating.

What's your $0.02 insight?

[curiousmindset]

what would you recommend ?

[NoZZz]

Fart 2025

[curiousmindset]

comments are live !

[ilaksh]

People are flooding this with deliberately horrible ideas for some reason. I assume the reason is that people are trash. Not really what I expected from HN.

[conductr]

Curious, did you actually expect only to see billion dollar ideas?

[anon115]

one person can post several ideas with no limits....

[randomcatuser]

yeah can you make this better?

1) show first 100 words of the idea (click into it) 2) votes! so we can see which ones are the best 3) ...thanks :))

[curiousmindset]

glad you liked it !

and thanks for the suggestions, just added the voting feature, will add character limits as well

[romanobro56]

Thank you for the reminder of how awesome the internet is lollll

[alexander2002]

Most ideas are about sex HN should release a new update for rfs to include sexo /s

[giantg2]

Mine are dead. They're all dead. My ideas are useless.

[ethbr1]

Imagine if there were an app where you ideas could not die...