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Life & fun · August 23, 2018

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$1 buys you a startup idea

Proving that ideas are cheap and execution is everything

$1 buys you a startup idea launched on August 23, 2018 with 11 votes, #927 of 2,619 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

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This site generates startup ideas using machine learning and sells them for $1 each. It's designed for entrepreneurs and aspiring founders who want inspiration for their next venture. The service embodies the philosophy that ideas themselves have little value compared to the work required to execute them, offering a low-cost way to explore business concepts and prove the point about execution being what truly matters.

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Chris Sacca once famously said that ideas are cheap but execution is everything. So I'm selling ideas, generated by machine learning (sort of) for $1. If you use an idea from this site and make All The Money, please let me know! "This is amazing. I paid off my gambling habit using my startup idea!" "Ideas-are-Cheap gave me an idea that made me afrom ideasarecheap.net

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