How many ideas have you sat on only to see them explode years later?
 

I've had dozens of ideas that I never had time to take advantage of. A large chunk of them were developed years later and a few of them took off like a rocket. I've always been stingy with what I do online and with 9 years of adult under my belt only three people were given the keys to the kingdom. One was my cousin that looted it all and owed me $50,000 when he died, the other two were friends that I still work with today.

I finally made an offer to share one of my unexploited business models on GFY. Because of other projects I absolutely would not have time to do it properly by myself anytime in the distant future. It still feels like giving a kid up for adoption or something. :1orglaugh

So how many ideas are you sitting on and how many have you sat on long enough to see them developed out from under you? The biggest one I can think of is the myfreecams business model. I figured on crowd sourced funding of webcam shows to be a huge hit at least 5 years ago but after getting pissed off at available software I shelved it. :disgust

I know what you mean. I invented Twitter.

I invented Brujah, who is the guy that invented Twitter

you like to talk about yourself

It's true. I just wish he'd have made my penis bigger.

I had the idea for something like myspace back in 96 but I thought it wouldn't be popular.

MySpace isn't popular. :1orglaugh

too many to name.

idea + 0 = 0
therefore, idea = 0

i wanted to play games online on comodore, never found out how to ... :)

I invented Lunchables - i really did, ask my family. When we saw the TV commercials for them the first time my parents jaws dropped because a few years earlier I had the same idea and with a vacuum sealer machine had made my own crude version of Lunchables. I was a teenager, I had no idea what to do with the idea. I wrote a letter to Scheiders Meat and never got a reply.

idea + 0 = idea

ZERO! :upsidedow

I saw one like that happen to me too. But then you can't be pissed at yourself because who knows would you do it right from the start to result in successful venture at the end.

And I still have ideas sitting in my files.

rainbow tables...

I was actually in the process of turning one of my old time tgp's into what would have been the first adult tube site in 2005. Before I had even heard of youtube actually, when I first stumbled across youtube I thought "they stole my idea!" :1orglaugh

Anyhow, I never intended to have full length vids, just sponsor clips in flash format and had the actual videos clickable to the sponsor site.

It was a ton of work and never really fully launched. I don't even own the domain anymore.

In 1999 I owned a free web host service, geocities style which I wanted to turn into a myspace style site but didn't have the resources or know how to pull it off.

Many more throughout the years.

I invented poo...

Now everyone is doing it daily...

I started in the industry in early 1998 but didn't take it seriously at that stage...so, that would be a yes.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh...

"Any idea you have now will be developed by someone else within 6 months"

Can't remember who said that, but it's pretty much a given. Happened to me several times.

U werent making real $$ then if thats the case. I took it very seriously ;)

I made real money when I started, worked probably 2 hours a week aside from studying traffic sources. I made money so damn easy that I didn't see it ever slowing down. This was 2001 by the way.

Justice lies at the heart of honor, for no obligation fulfilled is honorable if the act of fulfilling it creates an injustice. Justice is simply knowing the difference between right and wrong and doing right. :2 cents:

I was in my very early 20's, freshly married and working at a 'real' job. I thought this would just be 6 months of 'fun' to help pay off the wedding bills. More than a decade latter ....

coulda shoulda woulda.

I used to live near the beach and a neighbor had one of those little sunfish sailboats and it was resting at the water's edge. She told me I could take it out if I wanted but I wasn't interested in sailing that day so I just started goofing around on it mostly because she was kinda hot :winkwink:

Being a surfer and the fact a Sunfish is about nine foot long I tried standing up on the sailboat like a surfboard and then tried to make it go by holding onto the sail. I remember telling her " Hey, look at me I'm a sail surfer ". I couldn't get the thing to go because there was no way to hold onto the sail and also let it catch the wind. I remember telling her that it needed some kind of bar across the sail so I could hold it sideways. We shrugged it off and didn't think anymore about it.

About eight years later the first Windsurfer appeared on the market and it was essentially just what I had talked about on that day. There were a lot of people on the beach that day and I can imagine somebody sitting on a beach chair watching what I was doing, taking the inspiration and had the ability to turn it into a world wide sport. :upsidedow

I'm sitting on something right now that could be unbelievably huge but life continues to throw me so many curve balls I haven't had the chance to hit it out of the park.

too many to count.