Ideas are Worthless - Speaker Deck

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ideas are worthless, please take some home

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nemo

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nemo captnemo.in/projects/

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SDSLabs.co InfoSecIITR.in Razorpay

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There's no such thing as an original idea. Every idea worth having has been had thousands of times already. - swombat

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captnemo.in/ideas github.com/captn3m0/ideas

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Execution Idea Good Bad Good Bad

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Execution Idea Good Bad Good Blender, Slack WhatsApp, Linux Bad Segway Ramar Petrol

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Interlude: Standardize GTFS

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seek out problems

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build for yourselves

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build for yourselves The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself. paulgraham.com/startupideas.html

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Interlude: Solve Your Problem

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Interlude: Solve Your Problem

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Interlude: Solve Your Problem

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Interlude: Solve Your Problem ● Libre CT Scanner ● Libre software to book an auto using Namma Yatri ● A journaling app for linux (phones) ● Port postmarketOS/lineageOS to a new device ● A search engine for “your hobby” ● A PDF convertor that ﬁxes indic font ascii issues

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multiple cheap solutions

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the adjacent possible

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the adjacent possible

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Interlude: Create Datasets ● indic chat dataset ● people cursing in indic languages ● pics of shop signs in [your language] ● requests on r/datasets ● Posters in Indian Universities ● Indic Synonyms ● republish all/most/some of data.gov.in with RDF/LOD. ● "important places (#reviews) in Google Maps missing in OSM"

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multi-disciplinarity

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exaptation

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Interlude: Steal Ideas ● aboutideasnow.com ● samsquire.github.io/ideas/ ● chromeextensionideas.substack.com ● ycombinator.com/rfs

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“Eureka!” is a lie

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be ready for serendipity

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Interlude: my ideas ● A scoped-semantic search engine. ● captnemo.in/ideas/

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project hopping

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backburner problems The Mosaic Problem - How and Why to do Math for Fun, Jack Hanke

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