I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea

Re:I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea by coldtea on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @03:49AM (#25831289)

Well, the idea was rejected by patients, advertising revenue, and doctors...

I also note the "weasel word" idea. This wasn't just an idea, but an implementation.

The same thing might make sense as a value-added feature in a more comprehensive health service (so the "idea" might be good when put in that use).

But as an idea for a service based entirely on it, it failed hard. What exactly twist do you have in mind to save it? Or are you just saying "we'll never be sure" with more words?

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Re:I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea by sillysaurusx on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @04:02AM (#25831362)

If you study a lot of history, you start to notice that old ideas are bad until they’re suddenly very good. Cannons sucked for a long time, till Napoleon showed they weren’t so bad.

I think posting haughty words is a lot easier than trying to make something work.

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Re:I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea by coldtea on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @04:17AM (#25831460)

>If you study a lot of history, you start to notice that old ideas are bad until they’re suddenly very good.

Also the opposite: dumb ideas are tried again and again to no avail ever.

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Re:I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea by a1o on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @05:54AM (#25832129)

Adding as example of dumb ideas, people constantly trying to patent perpetual motion machines.

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Re:I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea by hef19898 on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @11:00AM (#25834722)

Nitpic on Napoleon, cannons were used centuries before him in sieges. People knew they were good all along.

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