Comments on: Idea #1: WebDelve: Small Business Web Analytics

By: stock market software

stock market software — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:01:17 +0000

stock market software…

Any idea if there are similar blogs like this related to stock market software?…

By: ed

ed — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:38:56 +0000

I am sorry about the “ideas are worthless” statement. That was rather too short. Ben put it well.

Most “great ideas” end up coming from crossplatform brainstorming. So you either have to know a whole lot about lots of different fields. Or you need to have a lot of friends each of which know lots about their own respective fields.
Then, of course, the great idea needs to be executed, and that’s where you come in.

I like the ideas so far as they stretch beyond your usual “bug tracking” software. :)

By: Ben Bryant

Ben Bryant — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:20:07 +0000

“ideas are worthless camp” — if you rephrase it as “execution over ideas” then I would be fully in that camp. Besides, I doubt (with respect) that any of these 30 ideas will be brand-spanking new; they arise out of a healthy observation of the industry. And Benji is already showing a tremendous sensitivity to what needs to be considered about an idea, as to whether it might fly.

Another way to phrase it is “ideas are plentiful camp.” If you are brimming with ideas, what harm could there ever be in initiating a discussion about 30 of them? This will probably spawn 90 more…

By: benji

benji — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:53:29 +0000

No, I don’t think ideas are worthless. They’re definitely worthful.

But I don’t think I’ll use all 30 of these ideas. And I’ll surely get feedback from people who read the blog. Dilution of the idea-space will be a small price I have to pay to get the opinions of all those people.

Besides, there’s nothing wrong with a little healthy competition. Especially since, in many of these cases, I’ve already written some of the software behind the idea, and I have a really clear sense of how I’d want to develop it.

By: ed

ed — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:13:44 +0000

Oh I see. I am looking forward to the other 28 ideas!

Aren’t you creating competitors by revealing all these ideas though? You must belong to the “ideas are worthless” camp. :)

By: benji

benji — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:37:46 +0000

ed Says:
“How come you didn’t go after the ’stock market analysis’ software?”

Ed, I’ve got 30 days to come up with 30 ideas. Believe me, the stock market analysis software will be making an appearance shortly.

By: ed

ed — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:05:18 +0000

How come you didn’t go after the “stock market analysis” software?

I know most people have online accounts where they get all the technical data they need, but it is all manual as far as I know. Even if not, it has to be a ton of money they spend to get all the high-tech tools.

I considered writing an application like this, but never got around to it.

By: Ben Bryant

Ben Bryant — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:28:03 +0000

You are off to an incredible start. I like all your background.

It is odd to hear about Google having a problem with bandwidth. Although you list it as a pro that they have a backlog, it is probably an indicator that they are working feverishly on this and will also deal with the bandwidth issue, possibly timed perfectly with the release of your product :(

Still I think there would be plenty of room to make a killing here, simply by producing a shrinkwrap product that installs on the customer’s own server.