Advice for vague startup ideas
When I read hacker news and techcrunch I get ideas constantly for potential web services that I might create. Sometimes I take an idea seriously and google it. Sometimes I go further and think about technical issues. I wanted to ask your suggestions for a forum to discuss such projects. I tried to ask freelancers at guru.com and elance.com but understandably they want to make money on real assignments, not spend time discussing half-baked ideas. I am in New York and I don't have access to an environment of hacker friends or startups to discuss such things. Thanks.
You could do a lot worse than post your half-baked ideas here. If you frame the question properly, I bet you'd get some good advice.
In my experience, having too many ideas can be as much trouble as not having any. Write them down (an idea journal) to get them out of your skull, put them away for that inevitable day in the bleak future when the ideas start to dry up, and meanwhile look for the one that you feel will succeed and you can build, and have fun building it, and when you think you have that one, stop thinking about it before you talk yourself out of it and go make it happen.
Thanks. I'll do that. Also two recent posts, one by biztools http://biztools.pbworks.com/, the other Getting Real by 37 Signal were helpful. And I realize that "framing the question properly" usually leads to a better understanding.