New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet

Inspired by the recent submission from cdixon (<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1190710" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1190710</a>) regarding developing new startup ideas and being the "opposite of secret", I thought we could put the theory into practice.<p>Feel free to add your own ideas and leave feedback on the others. If you see something you like, get in contact and make it happen!

makes me feel bad for PG and and YC team: reading just those 20 or so responses is painful.

I put my idea up (about the group learning community), because I'd like it to be made. Even if I'm not the one to make it. It scratches one of my itches.

Imagine it's 1998. Google doesn't exist yet. Would Larry Page and Sergey Brin have added their big idea to this spreadsheet? My argument is that if you have any idea that's worthwhile, you're not going to publicize it. It might make sense to get feedback from a few friends. But you don't want potentially dozens of other people trying to execute it before you have had a chance to. Brin and Page are good examples of the fact that ideas in themselves can be extremely valuable and are worth guarding.

I'm not going to lie. I literally said "Awww, Coool!" Then looked around to see if anyone noticed because I felt like my inner child surfaced a bit too much.

Got my idea up there: Crowd-sourced shipping <i>(Tip: It's row 62)</i>. Not sure I'm the best person to go with this idea, but I would love to see the internet make something like this work.<p>I know it's a little bit out there, but I think it would be a fun startup to make something like this work.

The idea currently on row 17 "apt-get update/upgrade for music" is very good IMO. I would use this service.<p>You could also expand it in various ways beyond tracking new releases for a single band to make it more of a music discovery service, e.g., (a) tracking side projects started by members of a given band or band "communities" where there are several inter-related artists and bands that appear in various ways in one another's work (like Broken Social Scene, Wu Tang Clan or The Bird and the Bee) (b) tracking other bands/albums/songs etc. that someone had a hand in (e.g., show me new releases that Pharrell Williams produced) and somewhat obviously (c) tracking new releases in a given genre, which could be very fine grained.

Got my idea up, hashpic.com. Hundreds of thousands of pics are being submitted to Twitter/etc real time. Get people to #tag the pics, geo location is already there. We do not host the pics, but we classify and help discovery of pics using their hashtags. Think Delicious for pics.<p>Interested to collaborate on it, or has something to say about the idea, drop a note on the community feedback column on spreadsheet! Thanks!

I don't mean to be pessimistic here, but a 50MM plant to recover phosphorous from water or breeding hypo-allergenic dust mites?

Crowdsourced startups anyone? ;)

I've always thought good ideas were a dime a dozen. Maybe I was wrong.

I would be really like to see the HN community do a project collectively. Come up with the idea, design, develop and launch it.<p>It probably sounds more fun than it is going to be. But it should be cool.

I have to add my idea to the mix. It's called the Pixelator. It's a site where you can upload photos of people and it returns to you the same photo but with all the faces pixelated.

im sorry, i love you all, but this list is filled with some really bad stuff. After reading more thoroughly I'm assuming a lot of it is just people messing around Such as:<p><i>100% return lottery.<p></i>pandora for chatroulette.<p><i>Wordpress.com 20 years more advanced, for video blogging.<p></i>Public Takeover - Use capitalism to control the ills of capitalism, one share at a time. Use crowdsourcing and social network effects to take over public companies by linking all socially-responsible minority shareholders.<p>*Dog Walking 2.0 - potential acquirer 37 signals?

I would be interested in discussing ideas with people, however it would need to be in a more private setting.

Participated :D

Whao ... sharing a Google Doc with that many people is a really interesting experience ;)

The 6th idea is great.

Body Doubles for Rappers is the clear winner here! It's not quite as scaleable, but it would be a great boutique service. BDFRAAS