Napkin-style business plan generator

Posted by hinathan on Monday February 13, 2012 @01:23AM
from the bplan.lensu.com dept.

http://bplan.lensu.com/

Inspired by the cliche of a business plan scrawled on a napkin, I decided to spend my evening making this silly graphviz wrapper. Sometimes its output reads like the basis for a plausible pitch.

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Re:Napkin-style business plan generator by itmag on Monday February 13, 2012 @04:05AM (#3584822)

Hipster.com obviously used this tool: http://bplan.lensu.com/?plan=7BfKD

Any ideas on how to leverage mobile and ubiquitize pivotal synergy in value-added hipsterspace? I believe clownsourced NoSQL might hold the key to scaling idiosyncratically while leapfrogging toward tractors in the field.

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Re:Napkin-style business plan generator by 6ren on Monday February 13, 2012 @03:46AM (#3584772)

Awesome, but repeats pretty quickly.

Idea: extend vocab with pitches of actual startups. Bonus: by chance, it will occasionally regurgitate those; and perhaps some good, not yet existing ones...

EDIT not exact repeats, just the same keywords. EDIT2 I think it was just some bad luck; it's repeated much less often just now.

BTW: clever to seed rand with the permalink code, and generate with deterministic random numbers. I was wondering how you did the mapping.

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Re:Napkin-style business plan generator by hinathan on Monday February 13, 2012 @04:15AM (#3584846)

If you're seeing repeats that's probably a bug, as this is supposed to be both random and fairly varied. I'm torn — adding permalinks has now made it much more complex to extend or revise the lexicon. I'll probably need to version the input text lists and embed those versions in the permalink, but that's a bit much for what's left of my day (1am where I am).

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Re:Napkin-style business plan generator by digisth on Monday February 13, 2012 @07:12AM (#3585276)

This goes along well with the Web Economy BS Generator: http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html

There's real potential for organic synergy and interdisciplinary cross-pollination here.

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Re:Napkin-style business plan generator by pbjorklund on Monday February 13, 2012 @05:06AM (#3584970)

This made my day. Pull #trending from twitter as optional dictionary :)

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Re:Napkin-style business plan generator by drKarl on Monday February 13, 2012 @08:03AM (#3585393)

http://i2.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/000/248/und...

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Re:Napkin-style business plan generator by hinathan on Monday February 13, 2012 @02:21AM (#3584603)

I probably should have submitted this as a 'Show HN'

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Re:Napkin-style business plan generator by Gigablah on Monday February 13, 2012 @03:06AM (#3584690)

Permalinks would be nice so people can pass around their "Exploit $$$ -> ??? -> $$$$$$" napkins.

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Re:Napkin-style business plan generator by hinathan on Monday February 13, 2012 @03:58AM (#3584804)

Good idea — didn't make the first cut but I've added them now. Thanks!

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Re:Napkin-style business plan generator by egometry on Monday February 13, 2012 @04:49AM (#3584920)

"Show HN" should be one of the nouns. ;)

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Re:Napkin-style business plan generator by rplnt on Monday February 13, 2012 @07:56AM (#3585377)

I wonder how food trucks get there. http://bplan.lensu.com/?plan=y4dgf

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Re:Napkin-style business plan generator by revorad on Monday February 13, 2012 @06:49AM (#3585230)

It's good, but needs more Machine Learning(TM).

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