Feel free to throw out any ideas, no matter how developed they are. Others are welcome to add on to ideas, or propose slight modifications.

To create a good brainstorming environment, let's try to keep all comments positive. While noone's idea will be perfect, for now lets focus on the pros and positive aspects of all ideas presented

Our goal is to make a positive change in the very subverted city of Cairo, Illinois. The idea was conceived after this thread, and our plans are to create both reason and possibility for more people to move to Cairo and start making good things happen.

Before you ask, we're only three weeks old and haven't got everything figured out yet. We have both crazy and sober ideas on the table, and we're very open to suggestions. Our moderator don't have internet access at the moment, so the info in the sidebar is a bit out of date and not entirely accurate. If you are interested, these are the most relevant threads:

• A House, a Mission, a Plan and some Business Ideas.

• ProjectCairo - Our First Meeting!

• Two businesses, a commitment and an appeal for support. Let's make this real.

• Introducing Team Cairo

• Introducing Not Team Cairo

• The wiki

Also, we're well aware of what became of r/redditisland, but we have very different circumstances here and are trying to get at least one step further. If you're a skeptic, pessimist or realist, or whatever the term is, please be constructive with your input. This is indeed an uphill struggle with a lot of obstacles, but that's the challenge. We'd rather try and fail than not try at all.

In short, we need businesses that can bring money in to Cairo, and people who can support themselves with businesses outside of Cairo.

Since a lot of the ideas thrown around this startup hivemind are quite complex and that seems to be turning away quite a few of the startup junkies here.

As a previously successful blog owner/operator, I would kill for the opportunity to work with some passionate redditors on a blogging venture.

For starters, a sexy and well-done design would be in order. Obviously we will be integrating social networking features as well as establishing an RSS feed, promoting those viciously. One of the most integral features will be the content and for which only the strongest writers will be allowed to publish. The rest of the team will be on promotions, development, product expansion(video, pics, other media).

This is just a quick brainstorm for now...if anyone would like to talk about this further, either post on here or send me a private message. Those who are genuinely interested will be notified and given access to a project management solution for venture development and dialogue.

Here is his AMA from a while back. He seems quite knowledgeable and this would be anther good resource to have available. He said he needs 100 people to sign up. Thread here.

Doing some research online and there are all these third party companies offering to do it cheap and easy. Hard to trust anyone who makes such a claim.

A while back, I made a post about unattached people getting linked with other peoples ideas. As a follow up, I am wondering how to take the next step and actually starting to bring these businesses to life. A lot of people have proposed ideas, and many of them have been really good and marketable. However, not much happens in terms of taking the next step beyond the proposal. Anyone have any ideas how to develop business further? What we need right now is a catalyst to help the pieces fall in place, and get the ball rolling. I'm not sure what the best course of action is here, and would like to hear your guys' thoughts on this issue.

Social Gaming in reference to Facebook gaming applications such as FarmVille, Cityville,etc. Just wanted to clear that up.

Entry into market relies upon a solid product as Facebook's standards rely upon quality work. Current market valuations for Facebook social gaming companies is Zynga $5.8billion and Booyah at $272 million (NightclubCity).

These social games rely upon a strong social connection between friends and facebook users as well as a strong "e-currency" market. Inflation can ruin games and a strong market will fight this as well as protect all revenue streams. (Revenue will come from the sale of e-currency in game)

I have analytics and other paperwork/plans I am willing to share with anyone interested at any level, position, or capacity. Simply put, this post is to gauge interest to see if assembling a team here is feasible. For starters, a team of 4-6 (2 designers) should be sufficient. I acknowledge that this is informal and short, however I do have documents, market analyses, etc for such an ambitious startup so send me a PM with your email or reply in this post if interested.

To celebrate out 300th subscriber, let's have an IRC chat this weekend. A fair amount of you expressed interest the last time I brought it up, and it might help our new community. To accommodate as many people as possible, lets schedule it for 3:00pm EST on Saturday. Reductor was nice enough to register Reddit-startup as the channel, so let's meet there. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable than I can explain in more detail how to get to the IRC channel.

Possible topics to discuss:

• Growing the community/recruiting

• How to incubate ideas into self-sustaining businesses

• New startup ideas

All other ideas are welcome as well, and I encourage you to bring them out.

This is my idea for user submissions of original film scripts. The idea would be that all submissions become publicly available for use and possible production by Indie, student (all levels, including High school) and professional film makers to get the writers name in demand and a their words turned in to reality.

The only stipulations are that the writer has to be credited and sent a link or DVD (can be burned) if the film is produced at any level.

I was wondering if anyone know an online forum full of entrepreneurs that help each other out (Things like Credit Card Merchant, a good shopping cart, and other helpful tips).

There's one that I read every so often from WebHostingTalk, where people who run their own web hosting business talk about their practice: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?s=673b410c06f330202cce485ab654cd31&f=6

So what's your site?

Hey All,

I'm applying for a startup workshop, and they asked me to give an elevator pitch for a company I'd like to start. Will you guys give me some feedback on mine? It's for a company that rents out baby clothes by mail (kind of like netflix but for clothes). Let me know what you think, any suggestions for improvement would be greatly appreciated.

Baby clothes can be a difficult expense for parents, especially since young families are typically not affluent. After a few months of use, perfectly good baby clothes are outgrown are no longer usable. While hand-me-downs are possible with younger siblings, baby clothes are typically only used for a fraction of their useful life, representing a loss of money for new parents

To solve this problem, I would like to start a company that rents out baby clothes to parents. Customers would subscribe online, and pay a monthly fee for the service. Once signed up, the company mails them a certain number of clothes to “check out” at a time, as well as a return shipping package (similar to Netflix). When the child outgrows their current set of clothes, they can be returned and swapped for larger sizes. Clothes could then be reused and sent to the next family. Software would automatically bill customers every month, as well as email reminders about returning clothes and managing the service.

This service offers many benefits over the current system of purchasing new clothes. It saves money for families that spend $495 on average/year spent on infant clothing currently. It also prevents storage issues and clutter, as clothes are returned when no longer needed. Finally, there are environmental benefits, as a single piece of clothing is used longer, and there is less waste. Because of the benefits it provides, I have a lot of confidence in this idea, and hope you are interested in pursuing it further.

Does anyone want to try chatting over IRC sometime? It might help to try flushing out ideas in real time. It might not work, but I figured it's worth a shot. What do you guys think?

This seems necessary.

At least until somebody creates a startup to make something from scratch to be extra-perfect.

• http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine

(post what you think are good alternatives)

We've been around for a week, and a fair number of ideas have been thrown around. The question now, is, which ones do we like, and want to look into further? Anyone should feel free to weigh in here. New ideas are welcome at this time as well.

Does anyone here have tips on tools and software to help manage remote workers/teams? Thanks!

Ok so this has probably already been done but I figure I'll share it anyway. Let me know what you think.

1. Users download an app to their mobile device which interfaces with a data file offered by a restaurant (in the cloud on our server) which states all the items on the menu in a markup format (so each item has a set of parameters including price, dietary information, allergy information, Halal, Kosher, Vegetarian, Vegan etc.).

2. When a user visits a restaurant they boot up the app, check into the restaurant (located via GPS or NFC/Visual tag), are offered the menu file, and can then browse the menu from their phone.

3. Users can quickly filter out items from the menu that are inedible due to their preferences (Halal, Kosher... etc.) Users like/dislike certain foods from a stock list (the app essentially asks "Do you like food x?") and can also rate the foods they try from menus. The app progressively creates a "taste profile" of the user so that food can be recommended in the future.

4. Possible expansion into promoted items, special deals etc. with some kind of commission scheme with the restaurant.

This elegant thing about this idea is that the restaurants could manage their menus via a web front-end interface - we just generate a link back to our servers when the user requests the data. This means promos etc. would be easy to implement.

This is a proposal for a site that keeps vital information and instructions should the user die. It would probably work by asking a user to upload an encrypted file with the contents the user wanted to keep safe. The user would be instructed to notify their next of kin of their plans and provide them with the file's password.

Proof of death would be required before files were released. In the event that it wasn't possible to verify through government records, the next of kin could satisfy this requirement by affirming in writing that the individual had died.

Users would pay a one-time fee for this service. More detailed services could be available for a higher cost.

Note: My original post about this is here

This subreddit was designed(I believe) to be a portal and thinktank for redditors who are interested in combining their talents to create a new startup. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem as if that is happening either due to a lack of conversation or that you may be working on another startup at the moment. Regardless, why not spark a discussion about your talents, portfolio, and your ideas for a potential startup.

I'll start: I have always had a desire to create a content portal, a world class content portal to where only the best quality articles and videos were allowed. Without going into TLDR details, I marketed this concept to professional writers with a revenue sharing model and the response was amazing and created a large mailing list. The site was 90% finished, custom coded and all, and then the partners bailed on other ventures. This is def. something I would invest in once again.

What are your concepts or ideas for a potential startup? Maybe you'll find a redditor that would like to partner up!

There is a massive and loyal following of both liberal and conservative news/political junkies. With that there is a serious disgust for Foxnews as well as CNN and HuffingtonPost.

(Its important I refrence that I don't believe its as much of a political disagreement disgust for them, yet a series of flaws in their content and their overall methods of sharing news)

Is there interest to create something better, more innovative?

There are virtually tons of various angles and features to help this potential news portal become more respected and innovative than its rivals, yet I just wanted to gauge interest on this subreddit before we dived into that area.

Interest?

Myself and my business partner are working on a ycombinator application to be submitted in the next few weeks.

We are looking for a talented coder to join us. They must be available for a potential interview between April 23-28 2011 in California (expenses paid) and be willing to move to Silicon Valley June through August 2011.

If the application is successful, our funding will be in the region of $170,000

PM me for more info

My highschool and college professors always complained about Wikipedia and other non-verified sources in essays and research. Virtually the only method of finding quality content on a subject was to go through a secured and login protected portion of your schools library as the general public and other students/educators couldnt have access. Everyone has complained that Wikipedia, Wikia, eHow, Hubpages, Mahalo(vomit), and the like are all crap content farms copied from one another. Sadly, this is true and they unfortunately rank at the top of Google because there is no one wanting to come forward and challenge their lack of quality information. With a solid foundation of recruited Verified Experts in their various fields writing and editing each others content, authority from guests and the search engines would come naturally. I know this is quite vague, but I do have a plan or two for a semi-education/quality/verified content portal. Brainstorm with me here! Thoughts...likes...dislikes...