Hi. I'm Paul Nixon, a designer living in Mountain View California. My days (and some nights) are spent designing websites for a little company in Cupertino. The rest of my time is spent with my beautiful wife and friends, road cycing and reading your blogs.

design: why not

Wednesday, November 5, 2003 01: 31 PM

why not : Lots of good ideas. The amazing thing here lies not in having a good place to find those "why didn't I think of that" ideas BEFORE they become actual products and services, but actually getting those ideas out in the open and then let the free market take them and run.

Smart entreprenuers will not only make this one of their hunting grounds for new ideas, but also use it as a testing ground for ideas just about to launch (poor man's market validation). However, I wonder how long it is before it is spoiled by those marketers and spammers looking to push their truly non-innovative products by talking them up first and then "miraculously" finding a company that offers a solution to the problem and posting it in the comments. (Update: whynot.net acknowledges that they were inspired by halfbakery.com)