• LousyCornMuffins
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    91 year ago

    How about “Ooo, that’s a good idea” “oh, someone else thought of that thirty years ago and it went nowhere”

  • nocturne
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    81 year ago

    Naw, even worse is thinking of something, creating a prototype, using one of the patent help services and not hearing anything back until a few years later when you see a commercial for your idea.

  • @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    61 year ago

    ADHD is doing that every single fucking day, and taking prescriptions that sorta help with it sometimes, but also have a lot of extremely irritating and frustrating side effects for a lot of people.

  • @crystenn@lemmy.ml
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    41 year ago

    actually me way back in high school. i had heard about bitcoin and went “ooh what an interesting way to make money” set up the miner and opened a wallet and everything, never mined and forgot about it. fast forward to the crypto boom 10 years later and i was sad

  • @CptInsane0@lemmy.world
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    41 year ago

    My team and I built an automated restaurant management/ordering system that used touch screens as my senior project in college, way before they were a big thing (we put lcds into a table and used one of those things you put over the screen to make them touchable).

    After college, none of us continued working on it.

  • I’ve thought of an improvement to an existing product, but don’t have the thousands of dollars to try an patent it, or start selling it in it’s improved fashion. It sucks, cause it would be nice to have and I think a lot of people would want to buy it.