James Altucher wrote a blog post called How To Become An Idea Machine.
And I thought it was awesome.
In fact, he's written a lot on the topic of generating ideas, but the most important part of it is this:
Creating ideas is a skill. And like any skill, it takes practice. Thinking of ideas every day strengthens your "idea muscle".
I made Daily Idea to make it easy to practice coming up with ideas.
Today, Daily Idea is just a place where you can email your ideas and I'll store them for you. Here's what I have in mind for the site:
Searchability One of the main objectives is to make sure that your ideas are easily searchable, so the technology underlying this is built with document search in mind (Elasticsearch).
Comparison Another feature of search engines is that I can help you identify ideas submitted by other people that may be similar to your idea. I think this would be great for helping nurture your own idea or finding collaborators.
Voting If ideas are publicly accessible, they can be voted on and you can get feedback about which of your ideas are well-liked by others.
Update The documents will be designed to let you come back and update them or add to them. Ideas start as fragile, barely-formed sparks, but with nurturing and care, they can grow into amazing things.
Reminders I can send you occasional reminders of ideas you've had in the past, or let you know if a previous idea is receiving attention from other people.
Privacy? For now all ideas will be publicly searchable. Soon I'll allow users to have private ideas. I will probably charge for ideas. Ideas want to be shared!
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