Everyone has ideas, and some even have the ability to execute.

We're trying to marry the two.

Full disclosure: My team needs this product. We've built apps no one wants. We don't want to to do that again. We're hoping others are in the same boat.

A way to test the market or get social proof that there is a market for this. Checkout how buffer did it - http://blog.bufferapp.com/idea-to-paying-customers-in-7-week...

You need 2 things: Landing page to describe product/etc and a community to support say yes/no

BTW did you see http://www.startuprocketlauncher.com/ on HN today as well?

Awesome first link.

For the second, no I didn't see that until now. Hmmm. I wonder if that's somebody being clever to prove a point of how easy ideas are to steal? If so, kudos for the irony :)

Sadly, luck is as important as good execution.

Good ideas are not worthless.

Good ideas are essential - but they have no value by themselves.

I wonder if your statement is equivalent to the famous, "existence is essence" claim? I think a good idea is a plan, and we certainly believe plans are worth something :-)