Y Combinator Challenge - Mission Accomplished

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by kleneway • 18 years ago

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kleneway4• 18 years ago

Thanks for all the great comments and support throughout this series of posts. Besides the enjoyment of brainstorming through each of pg's ideas, by far the best part of this experience was the chance to discover the Hacker News community - you guys rock.

Also, I'd really appreciate it if you could let me know which (if any) of these ideas you think might be worth pursuing. Someone posted a comment here a while back suggesting that after the challenge is over, I take the next 30 days to take the best idea and actually build it out. It might be a fun project to take on - contact me if you're interested in helping out (kleneway at hotmail).

tptacek• 18 years ago

If none of these ideas captures you to the point where you can make the decision on your own, you might want to wait before starting a company.

kleneway4• 18 years ago

Not looking to start a company, just looking for a fun weekend project to hack on. I've got some thoughts on which one I want to take on, but it never hurts to get some feedback from the community.

andr• 18 years ago

So you must be a trillionaire now?

Seriously, take one of the ideas and run with it. Ideas are easy. Execution is what counts.

kleneway4• 18 years ago

That's the plan. Three things:

1. I have a lot of respect for what you guys think and wanted to get some input on which one to tackle.

2. It's more fun for me to work on a project with other people than to go it alone. This is my way of trying to find some new people to work with.

3. I'm 100% not in this for the money. This is a side project for me - I love coding, I love brainstorming ideas, and I love getting feedback. If I were a trillionaire, you know what I'd do? I'd come up with some ideas, throw them out there, and hopefully find some cool people to work on it with me.

trevelyan• 18 years ago

If I were a trillionaire, I would have some more interesting uses for that kind of money. Run my own projects, absolutely, but I'd hire great people to take care of the actual and experimental coding.

Futzing around with other people's APIs is one of the most frustrating parts of coding for me. Only reason I code myself is that I'm better at doing it than anyone I could hire. Only real advantage over outsourcing is the ay it pushes you to the edge of innovation because you can see the technological possibilities before other businesses do.

staunch2• 18 years ago

The site builder but oriented around plugging it into other sites. You create something like Weebly but focus purely on letting other sites give it to their users (for profile pages, or entire sites). Charge for the service.

iamdave3• 18 years ago

Isn't that what CushyCMS does (minus the charging in most cases)?

kleneway4• 18 years ago

Thank you for listing that site! I've been looking for something like that for a long time!!!

staunch2• 18 years ago

I hadn't seen CushyCMS. Just checked it out. The way it works seems entirely different from what I'm talking about. I want to be able to add a page designer to my site for my many thousands (or millions) of users. Or whatever I want. CushyCMS wants FTP/SFTP information for single site and it's not at all clear whether I can integrate it into my own site.

colinplamondon• 18 years ago

So what? The whole thing seemed like a waste of time. There's a million people out there who can shit ideas on a list of possible areas- the only thing that matters is actual execution.

Y Combinator Challenge - Mission Accomplished

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