Startup Breeding
p/startup-breeding
Choose your next startup idea
Sergey Shmidt
Startup Breeding — Find genius ideas for your next startup
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Ryan Hoover
"Airbnb + Soundcloud" juuust might work.
Vlad Kudinov
@rrhoover Thanks for adding us Ryan! We hope it's the fun tool to brainstorm some freaky ideas ;)
Niv Dror
Clearly this is how every good idea in Silicon Valley gets started.
Abe Storey
Love this idea! Great work :)
Brendan
Had an idea to map underlying technologies behind different startups and then try to combine those in new ways, but this is so much simpler and fun!
Josh Barkin
This is great. Snapchat + Git = Get code before it disappears
David Glauber
Are there any rules for the breeding?
Sergey Shmidt
@dglbr No, just pure random.
Anshul Dhawan
pandora + tripadvisor : An intelligent trip recommendation app based on previous travel likes/dislikes .
Travis Weathers
@theanshuldhawan I love that idea. I'm an avid traveler with my wife and it was time consuming to find great travels!
Edward Woodcock
Tinder + Messenger...
Saijo George
@stsilent nice work mate, loving the idea. Do you have plans to expand this in to things like domain name suggestion for breeds, etc?
Shankar
Would be even more interesting if I get to 'lock' one of the options, like in https://coolors.co
Cyril
Nice idea :) It would be interesting to eventually "stick" one option. Like if you want to have ideas about something based on Flickr for example.
ben Watanabe
Could see this being a fun tool for a hackathon. Have each team come up and hit the spacebar and then have to build something around the combo. Could see a nice slot machine style animation really getting it to "pop," but definitely realize that could be pretty tough to implement and probably not worth the time. Nice fun site! Congrats @MonsterCritic on the simple execution!
Manu Lohiya
this is great work with a neat design! @stsilent @monstercritic I am working on a similar concept with more of a user generated focus. It would be cool to collaborate!
David Diamond
@stsilent I actually mentioned this in an interview with Paul Kemp about 2 months ago lol http://goo.gl/BkFXJm
Daniel Schildt
Nice little project. :) How many individual startup choices do you currently have there (not counting matches)?
Sergey Shmidt
@autiomaa There are 83 startups, I don't know how to count unique combinations :)
Sergey Shmidt
@autiomaa if my calculations are correct - there are 3403 different breeds
K R
@monstercritic @autiomaa I don't remember the proper equation for permutations but it's something like X = n(n-1)(n-2) and so on depending on how many spots you have available and assuming you can't have the same one selected twice there are 6806 combinations. Can someone tell me if this is right? I need to brush up on my elementary math. smh.
Sergey Shmidt
@kenrossi @autiomaa My formula was ((n * n)-n)/2. I can't explain why is it so, but I figured it out with simple numbers: 2,3,4 and 5 elements). There is no need in combinations like Spotify + Spotify; and Spotify + Snapchat is the same as Snapchat + Spotify.
K R
@monstercritic @autiomaa Ah, I duplicated. I didn't take into account about order. I had to look this up ... C(n,r) = C(83,2) = 83 / (2 (83 - 2)) = 3403.
Derek Morin
Airbnb + Uber? Please don't steal my car!
Vlad Kudinov
@demoweb_co it's already here ) https://turo.com/
Shiv Patel
@stsilent @demoweb_co How was your experience with Turo been? Was talking to some team members there recently.
Derek Morin
1 + 1 = 3 as they say
Germán Castaño
I like creativity tools and this is nice and simple. I think it would be nice if visitors can like or dislike combinations, and maybe add a leaderboard of top 5 most liked or most hated combinations. I think this will add something cool to this idea. Great job.
Alex
This is awesome! How many different sites is it choosing from currently?
Atul Pradhananga
Oculus + Skillshare = Revolution in online learning industry. Now that would be epic!
Vlad Kudinov
@atulpradhananga haha sounds good!