[dgunn]

Completely agree. Idea sites like firespotting and halfbakery just turn into a really good way to waste your time. If you have a reasonable idea, do some research on it. If it turns out to be feasible, do some customer development and start building it out to really test it.

Doing these things and failing 100 times in a row will almost certainly turn out to be a better use of your time than spending even 5 minutes looking for an idea by skimming through the likes of this:

  [1] "A pinterest type service where if u spot a deal.." blah blah

  [2] a rotating tube house

[1] http://firespotting.com/item?id=1061

[2] http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/rotating_20tube_20house#13702...