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18 points by ajoshu 8 months ago · 17 comments · 1 min read

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How to get ideas for your next startup or side project. - Use this tool

eamag 8 months ago

A more focused way of generating ideas would be to have a multi-step approach, define the scope, collect information, generate ideas, clean up, expand/deduplicate, evaluate and rank, see a figure 4 from a review [1]

I tried to do it based on ICLR conference, and rank via LLM-tournament, see result https://openreview-copilot.eamag.me/projects and process https://eamag.me/2025/Paper-To-Project

[1] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-Review-of-LLM-Assist...

  • apercu 8 months ago

    You’ve described my manual consulting process :)

    Except when I have access to the right ears I force some measurable success metrics at the beginning to maintain scope stability after agreements.

  • ajoshuOP 8 months ago

    Interesting, thanks

jonathaneunice 8 months ago

Given the title, thought this was going to be another "write it down, get it out of your head" note-taking tool. Boy was I surprised when the first thing I typed in exploded into 10 more things to think about!

bhollan 8 months ago

Love this! UX nit: I love that I can 'lock' good ideas in and ask for a fresh batch, but I want a way to say 'I reject this idea and don't want to see it again.'

I kept getting the same 'wrong flavor' ideas even after 2-3 rounds.

  • ajoshuOP 8 months ago

    Interesting, I could prob store that locally then make it avoid re-generating

    Thanks for feedback

tianqi 8 months ago

Whenever I click "Brainstorm", I get an error saying "Failed to fetch ideas." Just wanted to report it in case it's helpful for the developer.

  • ajoshuOP 8 months ago

    Thanks for the feedback I'll look into those logs now! Sometimes specific questions can throw errors, which I am trying to improve.

    • tianqi 8 months ago

      if specific question matters, my testing input is "How to bet on the NRL" which will cause the error.

ajoshuOP 8 months ago

This really exploded in traffic, thanks to everyone who tried it out and gave me feedback!

chasing 8 months ago

Evidence that ideas are a dime a dozen.

prmph 8 months ago

I'm told: > Enter a topic and get some ideas

And when I enter something I get: "Error: Invalid topic"

  • ajoshuOP 8 months ago

    Hi, yes this happens very rarely, it's usually triggered when it thinks you are trying to escape out of the subject, try to limit your question length a little. - Thanks for giving it a try.

apercu 8 months ago

It was fun, I’ll try it again when I have more time.

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