Man, do I feel your pain
It's not that I haven't had ideas lately - I have. I just keep finding out someone else has already done it - most of it, all of it, or even better than I had in my head.
I was zinging for a full week on an idea I had recently for a ecomm consolidator web app thingie that would consolidate results from hundreds of sites devoted to home decorating. It would allow you to set up decorating lists for yourself - dream house stuff, new apartment wants, things my Aunt Joan would like for her house, whatever. Oh, the plans I sketched out. You wouldn't believe. Or maybe you would. I was going to quit my job, raise money, do whatever it took to make this idea fly. I searched all over the web and couldn't find anything similar. And then I stopped by a blog one day the second week (don't even remember which blog it was) and found a link to HomePortfolio and my dream of working for myself died again.
Damn.
So when I ran across this post on Defective Yeti I felt his pain. Do I ever know what that feels like. On the other hand, I appreciate Google more than he does - because it's saved me from going thousands into debt over an idea that someone else already had.
The quest for ideas goes on.
2002.12.23 01:50 PM