convore.json/groups/hacker-news/is-it-possible-to-have-an-original-idea/messages.json

[{"user_id": 26244, "stars": [], "topic_id": 15922, "date_created": 1301366712.356746, "message": "PS: http://hashbo.com is only two weeks old, so if you take a nose at it please don\u2019t expect miracles ;-)", "group_id": 95, "id": 464552}, {"user_id": 25457, "stars": [{"date_created": 1301626924.378813, "user_id": 25828}], "topic_id": 15922, "date_created": 1301367221.3097961, "message": "I'm actually working on an original idea for my startup, a genuine eureka moment merged at least a dozen different ideas into one. Admittedly, it took me a while before I could get it nice and simple, but that just takes time and effort.", "group_id": 95, "id": 464621}, {"user_id": 25457, "stars": [], "topic_id": 15922, "date_created": 1301367010.1753049, "message": "Yes, original ideas are possible, just exceedingly rare. If you're only combining 2 ideas together, odds are it's floating around in someone's head already or been done.", "group_id": 95, "id": 464595}, {"user_id": 26244, "stars": [], "topic_id": 15922, "date_created": 1301366688.3727429, "message": "So here I am doing some background research into a new project I\u2019m developing (http://hashbo.com) when I wander across Convore. It seems my \u2018original\u2019 idea was not so original after all :-) Just wondering how many people have found it better or worse having an original idea, if there is such a thing.", "group_id": 95, "id": 464547}, {"user_id": 26244, "stars": [], "topic_id": 15922, "date_created": 1301367659.566911, "message": "What\u2019s your startup btw.?", "group_id": 95, "id": 464751}, {"user_id": 25457, "stars": [{"date_created": 1301604450.1221631, "user_id": 26244}, {"date_created": 1301618256.422523, "user_id": 25828}], "topic_id": 15922, "date_created": 1301367571.7290151, "message": "Best advice I can give is to be extremely skeptical about any \"original\" idea, vette it repeatedly, search for something similar, try to figure out why nobody else might have thought of it, try to grasp the implications of your idea and look for evidence it's been done, question your sanity, and run it past anyone you trust. Personally, I've been doing this daily for 5 months and I still have my doubts, but there's only one way to find out which is why I need to run off and meetup with my cofounder.", "group_id": 95, "id": 464730}, {"user_id": 26244, "stars": [], "topic_id": 15922, "date_created": 1301367623.8589039, "message": "flipside, thanks that was great ... nice to here feedback from others about this whole process!", "group_id": 95, "id": 464746}, {"user_id": 22729, "stars": [], "topic_id": 15922, "date_created": 1301377230.5476749, "message": "When it comes to startups, no. All ideas are derivative. If they weren't, then how did the inventor come up", "group_id": 95, "id": 466568}, {"user_id": 22729, "stars": [{"date_created": 1301604463.9540851, "user_id": 26244}], "topic_id": 15922, "date_created": 1301377462.387337, "message": "Eg. Blogging. Not unique. Micro logging with completely open and easy follow model. Unique for broadcasting information.", "group_id": 95, "id": 466584}, {"user_id": 22729, "stars": [], "topic_id": 15922, "date_created": 1301377365.302062, "message": "Eg. Search engine. Not unique. Using a weighted graph as a metric of site authority (page rank). Unique for search engines (in 2000 that is).", "group_id": 95, "id": 466577}, {"user_id": 22729, "stars": [], "topic_id": 15922, "date_created": 1301377286.459605, "message": "With the idea? With that said, I think executions of ideas can be unique for its space.", "group_id": 95, "id": 466571}, {"user_id": 15929, "stars": [{"date_created": 1301604471.32359, "user_id": 26244}], "topic_id": 15922, "date_created": 1301378820.275794, "message": "imho, hasbo is an original idea. though not unique, you came up with it on your own. thus, it is original", "group_id": 95, "id": 466685}, {"user_id": 22200, "stars": [], "topic_id": 15922, "date_created": 1301383817.8102729, "message": "don't worry about the original idea. the winners are the ones that ship. http://is.gd/Sji131", "group_id": 95, "id": 467568}, {"user_id": 25901, "stars": [], "topic_id": 15922, "date_created": 1301383925.713213, "message": "Looking forward to iQualia, flipside!", "group_id": 95, "id": 467580}, {"user_id": 25457, "stars": [], "topic_id": 15922, "date_created": 1301384098.613451, "message": "@ilian Thanks!", "group_id": 95, "id": 467608}, {"user_id": 26035, "stars": [], "topic_id": 15922, "date_created": 1301392173.023277, "message": "We're talking about ideas not companies. Who cares! Insert one of many 1%/99% quotes.", "group_id": 95, "id": 468405}, {"user_id": 26244, "stars": [], "topic_id": 15922, "date_created": 1301407732.356333, "message": "Thanks guys, sometimes it's all too easy to lose perspective!", "group_id": 95, "id": 469520}, {"user_id": 26244, "stars": [], "topic_id": 15922, "date_created": 1301407958.984771, "message": "It's interesting the difference hearing advice directed at you compared to reading it. Much more valuable and encouraging.", "group_id": 95, "id": 469553}, {"user_id": 11927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 15922, "date_created": 1301410147.3990059, "message": "There's always competitors for your idea and ideas are generally build on older technology.  The idea is to keep progressing", "group_id": 95, "id": 469808}, {"user_id": 6175, "stars": [], "topic_id": 15922, "date_created": 1301417680.431824, "message": "it is never about unique ideas, but about unique executions which are unique most of the time which make a startup success.", "group_id": 95, "id": 470731}, {"user_id": 8668, "stars": [{"date_created": 1301604440.8195281, "user_id": 26244}, {"date_created": 1301712773.995892, "user_id": 14070}], "topic_id": 15922, "date_created": 1301604213.475904, "message": "Every idea I have seems to get announced by another company around the same time I have it... it's quite normal, we're all looking at the same data and the same problems", "group_id": 95, "id": 496072}, {"user_id": 25457, "stars": [], "topic_id": 15922, "date_created": 1301384039.4281819, "message": "@hashbo We're jumping into the crowded Q&A space. I took one look at Quora, thought of a way to do Q&A better, and been working on the idea ever since. If I'm right, we've solved the scaling problem... and then some.", "group_id": 95, "id": 467597}]