Ask HN: Problem finding/choosing an idea to work on
TL;DR: Bad at coming up with startup ideas, or possibly just think about them too critically and don't pursue them. Advice? To give context: I'm 17 and just started college (web dev. with design degree). Got my first computer at 13. Have been interested in startups and designing/coding for a couple of years. Had a job at a web dev. company in Summer '09. They offered me a full-time job as a front-end designer for when I finished high school (Summer '10), but I gracefully declined as I wanted to pursue my own projects and go to college. Debated about going to college and eventually decided to go for the networking aspect - and since my country has a free educational system, it's not as if going would put me in debt like in the US. But I have this ongoing problem. At first, I just thought I was bad at generating good startups ideas, but now I'm starting to think maybe the problem is over-t
Why it failed
TL;DR: Bad at coming up with startup ideas, or possibly just think about them too critically and don't pursue them. Advice? To give context: I'm 17 and just started college (web dev. with design degree). Got my first computer at 13. Have been interested in startups and designing/
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- throwAway741
- Ended
- 2010
- Source
- hackernews