If you would like a very good and nice French alternative, you can have a look at Nod-A, they have created the IdeaMaker and they are awesome! 🤘(they speak English too) (http://makestorming.com/ideamaker)

Going into the new year and just exiting my last startup, I have been reflecting on the question of “what’s next” in 2018. This tool offered a timely and useful framework to help answer that question by thinking in new ways. I look forward to using it to brainstorm with my peers and investors. Great work! 💪🏽

I'm not a big fan of brainstorming,in fact i hate it for several reasons. The most obvious is that it rarely drive huge growth. But i have to tell that this service is by far more "useful". But the cons have to be used to improve the service and then maybe something very useful that can be use in production can emerge.

Pros:

It's relatively good as it uses some good tools to help innovating (JTBD for example ). No need to know some innovations theories to use it

Cons:

The industries boundaries are already drawn. the jtbds use are not declined in all three dimensions. some jtbs looks like desired outcome

Unlike common beliefs; ideation is not just a matter of getting the right people in the room, adding some post-its and beers to the mix and waiting for 3 hours until the next disruptive venture is somehow brought into being.

A good ideation session is hard work! It is a structured process of guiding the right people through a number of carefully designed exercises - we generally keep the beers for the end of the day. This tool was really useful in the ideation phase.

Pros:

Let you generate a lot of new business ideas

Cons:

Beta

I'm not sure how people in the other industries take on idea generation, but this idea generator seemed to reflect a pretty closed mindset, in my opinion.

Pros:

not much

Cons:

Limited industries. "What if's" are unrealistic.

True to what we do - we don't keep developing until it's a 100% - going live with a beta version will give us a lot more insights in what could be better. Let us know!

Pros:

The What If? cards are great triggers to come up with new ideas

Cons:

Still in beta (UX could be improved)

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It would great to add:

- the possibility of printing the question.

- a mini canvas to write the most powerful ideas, once all the ideas have been spoke of in order to begin with a prioritization.

Pros:

Simple, easy to understand, so fast onboarding, interesting questions.

The additional card to get more inspiration is relevant.

Cons:

I would expect to choose my target group.

Questions quite product-oriented: add Marketing, Finance...

Role of the "60" card not clear.

Really interesting! I made something that can be complementary with your solution, that generate random ideas based on product-hunt projects's titles http://www.ita-bot.com