Dr_Manhattan comments on Who Wants To Start An Important Startup? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 21 August 2012 02:18:52AM *  5 points [-]

Just a word of caution: this seems to be the idea almost every geek I know thought of doing (including myself, had a prototype going 4 years ago). You can draw some conclusions from this.

Comment author: wedrifid 21 August 2012 07:37:02AM 3 points [-]

Just a word of caution: this seems to be the idea almost every geek I know thought of doing (including myself, had a prototype going 4 years ago). You can draw some conclusions from this.

Another here. A group of four of us got as far as releasing a beta version of such a product.

Comment author: sinak 21 August 2012 04:38:30PM 2 points [-]

Interesting. Thanks for pointing this out. I'm not sure whether this is necessarily a bad thing, but it's good to know that it is a known geek archetype.

Comment author: ShannonFriedman 21 August 2012 04:46:02PM 5 points [-]

It implies that its a problem a lot of geeks have and that there's a market. Sounds like a problem that is easy to solve moderately well but has not yet been solved with excellence.

Comment author: sinak 27 August 2012 06:02:20AM 1 point [-]

Great feedback - thanks Shannon.