Ask HN: Are you lost / confused / stuck? I can try to help

Re:Ask HN: Are you lost / confused / stuck? I can try to help by coolhoody on Sunday April 17, 2022 @09:01PM (#31066173)

The funny thing about this — is that quite a lot of people can help others — while not being able to help themselves.

I had a startup idea — for people in need of such help helping and motivating each other — noticing that I can solve rather complex problems of others while being a prize moron within my own code block.

Didn't follow through due to d.

My advice to you is:

1. Don't be discouraged if this dies in 'New', it'll go off when it's ready.

2. Always condense your pitches — to nontrivial taglines, then expand with clear tag:reason for the busier people.

3. Be a tad more self-confident. Not in your guru skills — that's bad manners — but in the idea itself. All gurus are shit, except this one: https://youtu.be/8An2SxNFvmU

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Re:Ask HN: Are you lost / confused / stuck? I can try to help by gurjeet on Sunday April 17, 2022 @10:28PM (#31066654)

Full version of Self Help Singh's video, for those interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rerBnAKPn0

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Re:Ask HN: Are you lost / confused / stuck? I can try to help by L0in on Monday April 18, 2022 @05:11AM (#31068717)

One of the things that i find strange and sometimes annoys me about HN is that every idea needs to be a startup... Why? Your idea could also become a collective or a non-profit the very least...

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Re:Ask HN: Are you lost / confused / stuck? I can try to help by coolhoody on Monday April 18, 2022 @07:21AM (#31069348)

My plan was non-profit, corporate sponsorship, plus voluntarily member donations. Used the term 'startup' just because it's short for 'big complex IT project based on some assumptions'.

Besides my own issues, I simply found too many holes in my original idea — where this idyllic utopia could go wrong.

I still keep the idea on the heap — currently evaluating an idea of professionally supervised chat groups. But I'd be glad if someone steals the idea before I find every way it could lead to the extinction of koalas and collapse of the Hilbert space.

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Re:Ask HN: Are you lost / confused / stuck? I can try to help by FerociousTimes on Monday April 18, 2022 @10:38AM (#31071243)

Could you please elaborate more on the business idea that you have if you don't mind?

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Re:Ask HN: Are you lost / confused / stuck? I can try to help by coolhoody on Monday April 18, 2022 @02:54PM (#31074897)

Nothing is finalized yet.

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Re:Ask HN: Are you lost / confused / stuck? I can try to help by derbOac on Monday April 18, 2022 @10:09AM (#31070808)

I completely agree that there are many options outside of startups, even for business ventures, and I wish this were discussed more.

However, this is a forum associated with a startup funding institution, so it's not that strange to me there would be that bias here.

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Re:Ask HN: Are you lost / confused / stuck? I can try to help by muzani on Monday April 18, 2022 @09:45AM (#31070465)

Everything looks like a nail

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Re:Ask HN: Are you lost / confused / stuck? I can try to help by samh748 on Sunday April 17, 2022 @10:35PM (#31066693)

You don't realize how much you needed to laugh your butt off until it happens.

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Re:Ask HN: Are you lost / confused / stuck? I can try to help by altdataseller on Sunday April 17, 2022 @09:15PM (#31066262)

Oh man, That guru has some really profound, enlightening advice... Really eye-opening, thanks for the rec!

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Re:Ask HN: Are you lost / confused / stuck? I can try to help by psyc on Sunday April 17, 2022 @09:59PM (#31066504)

That guy gets it. Just what I needed to hear and the accent I needed to hear it in.

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Re:Ask HN: Are you lost / confused / stuck? I can try to help by fouc on Sunday April 17, 2022 @10:15PM (#31066578)

due to what? is d. short for death?

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Re:Ask HN: Are you lost / confused / stuck? I can try to help by samh748 on Sunday April 17, 2022 @11:06PM (#31066896)

maybe depression?

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Re:Ask HN: Are you lost / confused / stuck? I can try to help by coolhoody on Monday April 18, 2022 @12:48AM (#31067541)

or diarrhea.

An idea for an app — 'Big D': Connects people with diarrhea — so they can know someone truly understands their pain.

Unless this timeline already has one.

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Re:Ask HN: Are you lost / confused / stuck? I can try to help by missedthecue on Monday April 18, 2022 @01:45AM (#31067798)

It's called UberEats

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