[al_borland]

It only seems like everything exists because once a truly new idea is built/shared, it then also exists. There will be many new things in the next 10 years that no one has even dreamed up yet.

That said, if I had what I thought was a truly new and original idea, I wouldn’t want to type it into a form to tell me what tech stack to use. First, there is no one right answer for this, so it seems like it would be a random stack generator. Second, I’d be worried the form is just a way for a developer to harvest other people’s ideas and I wouldn’t want to give anyone a head start on my idea if it’s truly new. Maybe this is paranoid, but it kind of sounds like what would actually be happening here.

Also, why do I want this random newsletter? Getting spammed with email makes the service have a non-zero cost. Receiving unwanted email is generally not a price I’m willing to pay, and it gives me a negative view of a service. Some of my least favorite sites are ones that have me fill out a bunch of information, with the expectation that they will provide some kind of answer, then at the very end, they put the result behind an email wall. I always use something like mailinator in this case, and if they don’t allow those, I simply leave. It’s not a game I’m going to play and I don’t care enough about whatever the site will tell me to end up in an email list.

[shash_2708]

Thank you so much for the insight. The newsletter was just me sharing one of the ways through which I can make money if no one is ready to pay for it.

[bruce511]

I'm not the author, but I eill counterpoint the "stolen idea" hypothesis.

Firstly ideas are just ideas. Most are bad, that's why we have a lot of them and why the real skill is filtering the bad ones out.

Secondly, the site would get a new idea "observed" every few days/hours/whatever. That would be terribly distracting to anyone actually trying to execute on one of them.

Thirdly, despite what we learn at school, ideas are maybe 1% of the task. Executing the idea in all spheres (product design and development, marketing, sales, admin, management et al) is frankly a Lot of work. Its likely expensive. You gave to be all-in to even have a hope. 90% of even all-in work will fail inside 10 years.

The -last- thing I want is a stream of random business ideas, each one shinier than the last, endlessly distracting me.

I agree with your other points, but i don't think you need to worry about idea theft.