Thread: Have you ever had a great idea?

Have you ever had a great idea that could make a shit load of money and then found out someone else already thought of it?

Not once

Thanks for your input.

I have never known of any idea to be regularly employed at all--nor ever heard of any receiving a check.

Stop being a nit pick, it's only amusing in the correct context. I thought of that when I wrote it, but I cbf'd writing it in a grammatically correct way.
Sometimes things are better when they don't follow the rules precisely.

I was only trying cpr on the thread. Whenever the soul separates from the body, one has a thing dead. Ideas are linguistic formations, and are a tool we use to effect human will, one area of which is making money, however, it is often not the most significant.

Secondly, I have heard your words before by those who cannot reason at all, that fuzzy expressions produce precise response. This is obviously not true.

The most productive and rewarding ideas are not those that are unique, but those that are used by everyone, every day.

Nothing that could be sold, but I often have philosophical ideas only to realise that somebody already had them and became very famous for it. For instance, I thought of determinism when I was like, 10 (although I don't think anybody's name in particular is attached to that one). It's as if these concepts have permeated the general consciousness of society and so seem more obvious to us, even though they are very recent ideas that took a lot of time and (presumably) thought to materialise. Then again, perhaps that's an illusion; perhaps they've been thought of plenty of times before throughout history but without the printing press were never coined, and never spread.

It's the same with maths actually. Many important discoveries seem obvious in hindsight. For instance, it's relatively easy to deduce the cubic formula after thinking about it for a while, even though that was only thought of in (I think) the 1700s and made its discover(s) famous.

Pizza hut's cookie dough with ice creame on top, then sauce. Not the same as Ben 'n Jerry's by the way.

Oh my god, Pizza Hut cookie dough is like the best food ever. You're supposed to share them, but I just think "Meh, I'm a teenager with a high metabolism. EAT IT ALL!"

And I usually get ideas when I'm in the bath half asleep, or trying to sleep. So... When I'm not quite conscious.

But it's more like ideas on how to solve things in my life, even really simple things. I love planning, making lists etc and spend a lot of time writing down ideas and "solutions" in a notebook to never ever do them

Originally Posted by Raspberry

I love planning, making lists etc and spend a lot of time writing down ideas and "solutions" in a notebook to never ever do them

Hah, same thing. Everything looks so simple and awesome on paper X)

I had thought of water bottles made from paper.

Originally Posted by Raphael

I had thought of water bottles made from paper.

The Oriental water festival uses paper for the water bombs. Simple origami books will show one how to make a water bomb.

Originally Posted by Xei

Nothing that could be sold, but I often have philosophical ideas only to realise that somebody already had them and became very famous for it. For instance, I thought of determinism when I was like, 10 (although I don't think anybody's name in particular is attached to that one). It's as if these concepts have permeated the general consciousness of society and so seem more obvious to us, even though they are very recent ideas that took a lot of time and (presumably) thought to materialise. Then again, perhaps that's an illusion; perhaps they've been thought of plenty of times before throughout history but without the printing press were never coined, and never spread.

It's the same with maths actually. Many important discoveries seem obvious in hindsight. For instance, it's relatively easy to deduce the cubic formula after thinking about it for a while, even though that was only thought of in (I think) the 1700s and made its discover(s) famous.

Me too. I've thought of a lot of philosophical ideas that have already been thought of. I think you may be right about these ideas permeating the general consciousness of society. The inability to record may explain it, but they could have likely still spread through conversation. Not sure though.

Originally Posted by Raspberry

And I usually get ideas when I'm in the bath half asleep, or trying to sleep. So... When I'm not quite conscious.

But it's more like ideas on how to solve things in my life, even really simple things. I love planning, making lists etc and spend a lot of time writing down ideas and "solutions" in a notebook to never ever do them

Haha yes! Always when I'm going to sleep I think "I'm gonna start my way to becoming an Artificial Intelligence programmer tomorrow. I will do it and work hard, starting tomorrow" or I imagine all these lovely scenes of me and a girl, everything going beautifully and then wake up the next day and fill my head with doubt and pessimism

I'll do these things one of these days....

Also I had the idea of creating an online notice board, one for every local area. By the time I was about to start making it - a couple of months after I thought of it - I saw an ad on TV for a fucking online noticeboard lol.
I've had maybe one to three other ideas, but I can't think of them atm.

That's probably the worst idea I've ever heard...
Doubly bad for the environment. Unless it's Bamboo or Hemp paper or something, then that would be good.
Has someone done it already?

Yeah someone has done it. I'd post a link but I can't since I'm a new member. The whole purpose of it is actually to be more environmentally friendly, it must be made out of a special kind of recycled paper or something.

Oh ok, that makes sense. Better than plastic anyway! hehe

Facebook.

I knew it was only a matter of time before someone posted that. And I was pretty sure it'd be you lol

I had wondered why someone didn't come out with a version of Myspace that is nice and clean and without all the customizable shit... and then Facebook came out.

Maybe I should sue Zuckerberg for intellectual property theft. I bet he incepted my dream and stole my idea.

Originally Posted by tommo

I knew it was only a matter of time before someone posted that. And I was pretty sure it'd be you lol

My idea was called iZone. I created a 22 page business plan for it and everything. I'm actually very serious.

iZone. Were you going to pitch it to Apple?

My brother thought of the long pie.

It's a rectangular pie so the meat sauce does not drip so much.

I have an idea relating to that. Thought of it when I was probably 10 years old or something. I must figure out how to do it. Thanks for reminding me lol

Not *ideas* as in inventions. But I wrote 2 awesome stories when I was a kid.
But years later I watched the "Labyrinth" and then "Child's Play" and for awhile I honestly thought someone stole my dreams (which is where my books always begin).
They weren't exactly the same, but close enough to be really spooky.
I was SO angry and depressed I couldn't write anything for a long time

Haha, that has happened to me before. Well, a similar thing.
It happened a lot of times when I was a kid and then one day
I thought that maybe I was in some sort of thing where every one
was watching me because all my ideas kept getting stolen.
Then the next day I either watched or saw an ad for the Truman Show haha

Most likely totally coincidental, but I almost believed that was what was actually happening, especially after that last thing.