Why would I as a developer post my ideas so openly on your page, just inviting competitors to copy me, before making an MVP? Sounds very high risk/mid reward to me.
Does anyone outside of the Silicon Valley echo chamber believe this? You aren't indie hacking anything without a good idea. It's the literal foundation. Execution is also important, and hard.
Can someone point me to all of these terrible-idea-awesome-execution businesses?
This is more similar to me saying, I am I going to create a TikTok video where I do this cool dance and me ACTUALLY creating the TikTok video where I do a cool dance and it gets a million views. The first doesn't invite copycats so much while the second one does because the idea has been eternally validated and, in both the TikTok and software case, it looks easy to replicate.
If you're worried about sharing your idea, you probably still didn't understand what makes a business successful.
VC-backed startups tend to have ideas with a higher level of "originality", I think.
But that's my personal perspective...
This is laughable, and straight from the VC/Big Tech Co playbook. You know, the kind of places who can more easily spend huge money executing on someone else's good idea.
Of course execution is important. I'd even accept more important than an idea. But ideas are not "near zero value". There's nothing to execute on without them, and unlike "executing", there's no system to repeat it.
* Stripe - Paypal but better and dev-focused
* AirBNB - Couchsurfing.com but better and we charge for it
* DoorDash - Seamless and GrubHub but better
Those ideas, on the surface, are all garbage. Yet they had by-far the best outcomes for YC. Why? Execution. That's why YC invests in so many poor ideas -- they're investing in people are likely to be able to execute, not the ideas themselves.