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| half-siblings | Sometimes ideas are just in the air.
And until there's a way of searching for "a site just like
the one I'm thinking of," sites will co-evolve, maybe with
slightly different spins. |
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| https://melikesyou.com/books/joudyht6uwap0f6rbcpw96tbwkqnz5 | ||
| "New Things" by Lauren Mary Barnett is a lovingly
illustrated collection of Lauren's "weird, goofy,
and sometimes unsettling" ideas that just
came out in Fall 2023 and immediately raced to the
top of my "if you like this site,
you might like ..." list. | ||
| https://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/ | ||
| A reddit forum devoted to sharing ideas in a long,
unstructured, vote-ordered list with the usual
comment threads. | ||
| https://ideamill.info/ | ||
| Martin Wilson and Richard Bruce of Brighton-based
digital marketing agency Albion.one built
the standard broadly optimistic story-blog based
idea list, with user profiles, tags, and votes.
But they have big plans for expansion:
"Soon, brands can have customers brainstorm new
product ideas. Entrepreneurs can find popular business
ideas. Visionaries can date-stamp privately
published ideas and invite specific collaborators.
And with the IdeaMill app anybody can sketch pictures,
record music or use a dictation machine to plant ideas."
Not to mention their plan to sell pay-for-placement karma and
ads. | ||
| http://www.quirky.com/ | ||
| I'd previously written that Ben Kaufman's '09 startup
"does a great job mixing marketing, crowdsourcing,
and greed". Alas, it wasn't good enough--they went
through bankruptcy in 2017. The home automation part
has been sold off to Flextronics, and the crowdsourcing
part has been, erm, reinvented under new
CEO Gina Waldhorn, who in 2019 herself moved on
to Sports marketing research company COO.
The obnoxious timers are gone; there's
a formal process for sharing the (sparse) royalties
an inventor might get from the separate licensing
process with "influencers" who help improve the
invention in advance to it being picked up. | ||
| http://www.stupidhackathon.com/ | ||
| STUPID SHIT NO ONE NEEDS & TERRIBLE IDEAS HACKATHON
organized by Sam Lavigne and Amelia Winger-Bearskin back
in 2013, and updated in 2017. The contributors are
artists; all the ideas are illustrated (and sometimes
built). Delightful. | ||
| http://mschf.xyz/ | ||
| Definitely far, far cooler than anything here,
MSCHF hovers between conceptual art collective and
collectible-producer, fully plugged into a scene of
"drops" and inevitable unwrap videos of their real-life
loot boxes where just being in the know is part of the
game. Still, many of these projects would
pitch very much like halfbakery ideas. | ||
| http://www.kickstarter.com/ | ||
| A by now well-known and stable crowd-funding site (and
one of a number of similiar sites.)
Select projects to pledge to from an illustrated list
with videos by the project owners;
select the amount to pledge; get a gift or some form
of participation back. | ||
| http://www.innocentive.com/ | ||
| High-end bounties posted by companies looking for innovations.
The site makes a credible attempt at protecting the
intellectual property of the large corporations looking for
solutions. | ||
| https://www.unnecessaryinventions.com/ | ||
| Matty Benedetto (no relation to the race car driver) pays the bills
by using his degree in Business Administration and Marketing to create
and market consumer brands for the kind of designer electronics- or travel
accessory you'd have seen sold in the SkyMall catalogue.
His "Unnecessary Inventions" brand is where he lets off steam and has fun,
somewhere between chindogu and a millenial Ron Popeil.
(If you want to know more, there's also a
youtube
channel,
instagram,
a reddit
AMA, among others.) | ||
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chind%C5%8Dgu | ||
| Chris Kuan writes: "If shouldexist is the halfbakery's
good twin, then surely Chindogu is the slightly demented
older brother who's kept in the back room." Too true. | ||
| http://pages.total.net/~fishnet/ | ||
| "For Sale By Mental Patient" spreads out existentialist,
beautifully warped wares like "TIME REMOVING SOAP!!",
"BARKLESS TOMATO!!!*" or "NAP SACK!!!!". | ||
| http://www.yet2.com | ||
| Aiming to create a global business-to-business market
for technology, this slick startup has scored $20m in
funding and charges mostly medium- to large
corporations for listing their licensable technology. | ||
| http://www.invent.org/collegiate/ | ||
| US Collegiate inventors' competition. Since 1991,
fully enrolled college or university students
have been competing for prize money, alone or
in teams of up to three. | ||
| http://www.creativitypool.com | ||
| A moderated idea database that supports submissions,
searches, and voting for ideas,
with banner ads and many cool text effects. | ||
| http://www.ideasbychuck.com/ | ||
| Charles McCarthy's ideas until 2011 (he seemed
to have about one attack per week), peppered with
mildly topical soft-core porn and relentless
self-promotion. | ||
| http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com | ||
| A small university spin-off that used to market web
software and has no relation to this web site
other than by name. | ||
| http://half-bakedbaker.blogspot.com/ | ||
| A food blogger from Alabama,
also unrelated to this website other than
in spirit. Or stomach. | ||
| https://halfbakedpuzzles.blogspot.com/ | ||
| Will Eisenberg, a stunningly productive music
teacher and horn player in Minnesota, is publishing
weekly puzzles here, accompanied by picture of a
different deliciously half-baked good each week.
Again, unreleated (but I love puzzles and may be
spending quite some time there, now that I've
run into it by chance). | ||
| http://www.thesurrealist.co.uk/priorart | ||
| The Prior-Art-O-Matic from Kevan Davis. | ||
| http://www.totallyabsurd.com | ||
| Under the subtitle "America's Goofiest Patents",
artist and marketing consultant Ted VanCleave
comments on illustrations from old and new
weird patents. | ||
| spinoffs | Halfbakery-related side projects
that have sprung up over time. |
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| http://twitter.com/bakesperson | ||
| When I see halfbakery-esque tweets, I sometimes
repost them here. | ||
| http://www.flickr.com/groups/inglybinglydingly/ | ||
| Flickr photo group for halfbakers | ||
| http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Halfopoly | ||
| Wagster has follwed through with his idea for
a "Halfopoly" layout in spite of [_sctld_]
posting a very similar idea earlier. Go coevolution!
Designs:
Board,
50x50cm board at 180 dpi,
Board in A4 segments:
1,
2,
3,
4 from wagster,
and generic board game
assembly instructions for parts 1-4 from our very own
Steve DeGroof. | ||
| http://aphorism-game.blogspot.com/ | ||
| The Aphorism Game Show, hosted by freerunner. | ||
| patents | Sites focusing on intellectual property,
patents, and patent searches,
both serious and silly. |
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| http://www.uspto.gov/patft | ||
| US Patent and Trademark Office's searchable
patent database. | ||
| http://ep.espacenet.com/ | ||
| European Patent Office, with database search
including worldwide patents. | ||
| http://www.priorartdatabase.com/ | ||
| Browsable and, to a limited degree, searchable
documents submitted by companies and gathered
from the world at large; full access costs extra. | ||
| http://www.researchdisclosure.com/ | ||
| Research Disclosure magazine publishes, for a fee,
ideas in a way that holds up legally as prior art;
patent offices subscribe to this. | ||
| friends of halfbakery |
I have met these people and would post bail for them.
They're funny and richly creative and they've been at
it for years. |
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| http://sorabji.com/ | ||
| New York artist, pianist, web person Mark Thomas. | ||
| http://www.plover.com/ | ||
| Mark Jason Dominus' plentiful Universe of Discourse | ||
| http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/ | ||
| Cosma Shalizi, Rennaissance man. | ||
| http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/ | ||
| John Lawler, associate professor of Linguistics at U Michigan. | ||
| http://www.mattblaze.org/ | ||
| Matt Blaze, cryptophotomacrographer. | ||
| mutually yours |
These are homepages and blogs of halfbakery users and
other inventive people.
(Usually, people link to their home page from
their profile page, but sometimes it's nice to
have them all in one place.) Send e-mail to
bakesperson@gmail.com if you
belong on this list. |
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| http://iotd.patrickandrews.com/ | ||
| Patrick Andrews' "Invention of the Day" blog, not to be
confused with idea-a-day. Given this impressive collection
of halfbaked inventions, he doesn't really need an account
here, but we're glad to have him anyway. | ||
| http://www.stinz.com/ | ||
| Comic artist Donna Barr (of "Desert Peach" fame)
is a halfbakery user. Hey, go back to work! | ||
| http://www.tvwritersvault.com/ | ||
| (Formerly realityshowpitch.tv.)
A site that specializes in bringing
writers and buyers of new reality TV shows together. | ||
| http://www.abettermousetrap.co.uk/ | ||
| Consultancy run by two British
technologists who help companies and inventors evaluate
and improve ideas. | ||
| http://sneaker.nl/ | ||
| Peter Sneekes's lively XSL-ized weblog
and homepage. | ||
| http://www.deepfun.com/ | ||
| An archive of Bernard "blue" DeKoven's games and ideas. | ||
| http://www.dafydd.net/ | ||
| Dafydd Ll. L. Rees, a Welsh software engineer and
halfbakery contributor. | ||
| http://www.ee0r.com/ | ||
| Elliott C. "Eeyore" Evans, technical writer,
inventor. | ||
| http://www.coolstop.com/ | ||
| A portal that values creativity and attitude;
in spite of the "cool" verbiage I'm pleased to have
been recommended by it. | ||
| http://www.monstro.com/ | ||
| Because some of your finer moments occur somewhere else. | ||
| http://www.purecontent.blogspot.com/ | ||
| "Look at more stuff. Think about it harder." | ||
| http://www.waltzer.net/ | ||
| Charming Irish DJ bloke's weblog. | ||
| http://www.explodingdog.com/ | ||
| sam draws pictures | ||
| http://www.gusset.net/ | ||
| Kylie Gusset's weblog, pink and pastel blue. | ||
| http://reinder.rustema.nl/ | ||
| ReindeR Rustema, a media consultant and Halfbakery contributor. | ||
| http://www.improbable.com/ | ||
| The Annals of Improbable Research, awarders of the
prestigious Ig Nobel prize. | ||
