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10-Jul-15 2:21

Someone clever said "Ideas are cheap - it's implementation that creates value" which is fair enough, and I can't really argue with that.

However, I do wish there was an idea marketplace, where I could dump all the ideas and half-designed games and apps and web businesses I get assaulted by but won't ever implement. Give me money for a good coffee or beer and I'll gladly give up all rights to them.

I actually came up with a business model and elevator pitch for that, years ago, which I won't make a business out of either. Because I'm to lazy and old to be an entrepreneur.

Eddy Vluggen10-Jul-15 2:26

Eddy Vluggen

10-Jul-15 2:26

There's no such marketplace because people aren't that interested in half an idea with a low market-value.

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Wastedtalent10-Jul-15 2:35

Wastedtalent

10-Jul-15 2:35

Just patent every idea you have, and when someone implements it send a lawyer round.

Orjan Westin11-Jul-15 0:02

11-Jul-15 0:02

Patents cover implementations, not ideas, for just this reason.

PIEBALDconsult10-Jul-15 5:42

PIEBALDconsult

10-Jul-15 5:42

Spend some time in QA.

RossMW10-Jul-15 10:03

RossMW

10-Jul-15 10:03

Is the idea marketplace one for the ideas you don't have time for Laugh | :laugh:

Orjan Westin11-Jul-15 0:00

I've found a new way to debug user interfaces

11-Jul-15 0:00

Yup. Also, not a website coder.

Gary R. Wheeler10-Jul-15 1:54

Gary R. Wheeler

10-Jul-15 1:54

- by editing the help text.

When the tech pubs writer who authored my help left to pursue her master's degree, the pointy-haired types decided that I could maintain my own application help. Since that time, I've touched up the help whenever I've made changes, but I've never done a comprehensive review. We're re-organizing some of our offline documentation, and I've been reworking the help to match.

This has forced me to take a different look at the UI for this product, and I've already fixed several problems. All but one are minor, and that one was in a part of the product that isn't used often.

It's kind of eye-opening to get this perspective. Imagine what would happen if I actually talked to customers, and people who ran the machine...

Software Zen: delete this;

Orjan Westin10-Jul-15 2:10

10-Jul-15 2:10

Don't do it! That way lies madness!

Gary R. Wheeler10-Jul-15 2:20

Gary R. Wheeler

10-Jul-15 2:20

Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate, indeed.

Software Zen: delete this;

den2k8810-Jul-15 2:35

den2k88

10-Jul-15 2:35

Papé Satàn, papé Satàn aleppe

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Rage10-Jul-15 5:29

Rage

10-Jul-15 5:29

Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
Imagine what would happen if I actually talked to customers

Do not do that ! Most of them are completely computer illiterate, and would not understand the least thing of your UI !

... wait a second ...

I almost wish I hadn't done that

OriginalGriff10-Jul-15 0:49

OriginalGriff

10-Jul-15 0:49

Made a loaf of bread today - olive bread - and it's fresh out of the oven: Piccy[^]
And now the house smells of fresh baked bread, and it's making me really hungry and I can't concentrate on work...

And I can't eat it yet - because it's too hot to cut well - Herself won't be home for a couple of hours so I can't have lunch 'til then...damnit!

Methinks olive bread, Camembert, salami, and Tomkin tomatoes is going to feature highly on the luncheon menu today.

What are you planning on?

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chriselst10-Jul-15 0:57

chriselst

10-Jul-15 0:57

God knows, but I'm bloody hungry.

You know when you get up, really are not hungry at all, really don't want anything, drive to work and feel bloody starving when you get there?

That, and our canteen stopped opening for breakfast a few months ago.

4 minutes till I had off for a forage.

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den2k8810-Jul-15 0:57

den2k88

10-Jul-15 0:57

Now? Homicide. Poke tongue | ;-P

you made my hunger swell.

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Duncan Edwards Jones10-Jul-15 1:05

Duncan Edwards Jones

10-Jul-15 1:05

Philly steak sandwich - special Friday treat.

Gary R. Wheeler10-Jul-15 1:05

Gary R. Wheeler

10-Jul-15 1:05

I'm going to have to run an extra couple of miles just from the caloric overload from your lunch description.

Software Zen: delete this;

OriginalGriff10-Jul-15 1:17

OriginalGriff

10-Jul-15 1:17

Now you know why I don't run... Laugh | :laugh:

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Matt T Heffron10-Jul-15 8:17

Matt T Heffron

10-Jul-15 8:17

With all of the 26.2 and 13.1 (marathon, half-marathon) stickers the runners put onto their cars,
It appears you (and I) could use ... 0.0 distance sticker[^]

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OriginalGriff10-Jul-15 8:31

OriginalGriff

10-Jul-15 8:31

I'd probably have to train to run that far! Laugh | :laugh:

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