Show HN: Idea Generator That Uses YC as Data

Softbank founder Son Masayoshi striked gold with a similar method. He created a set of flash cards, drew 3 cards, and tried to conceive an invention from the withdrawn keywords. Having drawn &quot;dictionary,&quot; &quot;electric circuit,&quot; and &quot;voice&quot; IIRC, he ended up with an idea for an electronic dictionary that reads up the words. He hired his professor at Berkeley who was knowledgable in speech synthesizing for $50&#x2F;hr. When the idea was realized as an invention, he filed the patent and sold it to Sharp, a Japanese electronic conglomerate. Having raised approx. $3 mil, he used that money to start Softbank. The rest is history.<p>Source: Recalling from biography I read years ago

I wrote something like this a while back for creating Enterprise Products. Just take some adjectives, nouns and adverbs, construct a sentence, and then swap out the adjectives, nouns and adverbs at random.<p>I even added a ISO-&lt;random_number&gt;-001 compliant adjective. It came out with stuff like:<p>&quot;An isomorphic enterprise ready synergistic content management data platform for the responsive ISO-5438-001 compliant mobile web.&quot;<p>Great fun until I showed it my boss and, genuinely, he started getting ideas.

The first result I got said that for every condom I bought one would be given to a female entrepreneur in a developing country... then I realized that was the description of the actual YC company, not the satirical bit.<p>I&#x27;m really not sure where to go from there.

Then we can automate the creation of these products, a&#x2F;b test in the real world and feed the successes back into the idea generator. Endless automated innovation!

Self-driving nuclear reactors and currated wine deliveries for developing countries. Those are definitely ideas.

I dunno if this is satire but it&#x27;s pretty great. I for one, am ready to invest in DoorDash for prosthetics and Greenshoe (cash for your every day needs) for commercial banks.

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IDK how good this is (if it&#x27;s serious lol):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;iRBZh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;iRBZh</a>

I feel like I hit gold on my first try here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;C7c3gvO.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;C7c3gvO.png</a><p>Everyone loves plastic surgery, but how do you organize groups to go and get procedures done?

Optimizely for groups and events. A&#x2F;B testing in the real world :)

&gt; Grouper for groups and events<p>...I&#x27;m pretty sure that&#x27;s just normal grouper<p>EDIT: I can&#x27;t believe I didn&#x27;t notice this is satire. This comment stands as a symbol of my ignorance.

Some get recursive :)<p><i>Ctzen for primary care</i><p><i>Ctzen: 311 for the developing world.</i>

This is awesome. It&#x27;s like Mad Libs for the 21st Century!<p>It does generate some decent ideas, too. PagerDuty for food and farming.

Now we can use it to autatically generate simple landing pages, and then do reinforcement learning with the amount of signups they receive as a reward.

This is brilliant and hilarious.

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