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Whoa, let's tone down the negativity HN. The hate is already piling up, but I think there are some really good ideas here. Sure, many (probably most) of the ideas are already done, but he does give some thoughts on the angles of execution and niches. This would be a great place to start for someone looking to brainstorm or for someone looking for their first startup experience.

At least don't deride the author for sharing some interesting ideas. If you've thought about each and every one of these, good for you, but I had some interesting thoughts while reading.

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Yea it's really better than I thought possible considering the volume. Most of these I can't come up with something that will make it impossible, by the time I'm done reading, as I usually can do with most people's billion dollar ideas. A lot of these are what you might describe as small businesses done on the internet, which is not a bad thing, not every idea has to be a quick growth money burning exercise.

Seeing posts complaining about negativity on HN is almost as annoying as the negative posts themselves. Mostly because they ignore the fact that most negative posts are voted down over time anyways. In fact, I'm having a hard time even finding the negative posts in this thread; maybe somebody can help me out.

Totally agree. I almost never see highly voted comments that are needlessly critical on HN. And being a little self-aware by calling out that negativity is just such an annoying thing to do.

Yeah, almost as annoying as posts complaining about posts complaining about posts. Check timestamps. When I posted it was nothing but negative.

What's really interesting is that he's done minimal validation on a lot of them. That makes this list a whole lot more useful than just a stream of ideas.

I actually think this should be a monthly or at least recurring thread. I'm sure a lot of people have ideas that they don't have time to pursue and that they wouldn't mind sharing. In any case this makes for interesting discussion.

Idea for a nonprofit: Sequence the genomes of the species that are going extinct, acting as quickly as possible.

I agree here, I see this as an online brainstorming session that the OP has provided. Yes, some have already been done but does that mean it cannot be done again? Competition analysis. As I see it, of there is enough reason to improve and clearly a market then why not look into creating an improved version?

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