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by tripleo1 754 days ago
Also, don't overemphasize thinking. It has already been done by people that are much (much) smarter than you.

Also, you cannot outscan people with millions of dollars at their disposal with the only intent that you cannot make any money yourself from your ideas...

...especially when they are good.

(please disregard the bitter tone.)

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I am really not thinking about this but the thing is whenever I think of an idea and share that idea to someone they just say to my face that this will not work especially family and friends.
Can you give us a couple of examples? I mean your ideas.
### Idea #1:

I had an idea to use AI with a phone's camera to identify any medicine, whether it's in a package or not. This AI would provide information about the medicine, including its uses, symptoms it treats, side effects, and the correct dosage based on the individual's health condition. The inspiration for this idea came from a personal experience in India, where some doctors prescribe higher dosages to earn commissions. My father was given medicine intended for heart or liver transplants, even though he had not undergone any transplant. This AI tool could help prevent such situations by providing accurate and reliable information about medications.

And the medicine name is:mofetil tablets ip 500mg

Sounds like a super-worthwhile, valuable & lives-enhancing (or even saving in some cases perhaps!) idea to me.

Your lesson here then: Dont ask people to judge your ideas, unless they're themselves full of good ideas often (in your estimate). Whether family or friends or anyone is irrelevant here on principle.

Here's another ai-but-not-gen-ai idea: app to see how one would look with some specific haircut, from multiple angles or ideally from all angles (feed enough photos for a good-enough "3d skull detection"). One could show their haircut choice rendered in-app to their barbers, and/or barbers could also subscribe to such an app to offer the feature to their present customer, perhaps by live-filming their head for a few seconds. (Something I'd like to exist but not badly enough to make it happen, compared to my other pursuits.)