Ideas are Cheap
Ideas are cheap, execution is everything - prove it for $1
Ideas are Cheap launched on August 23, 2018 with 81 votes, #498 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.
What it does
Ideas are Cheap is an experiment in proving that Chris Sacca was right. Pay me $1 and I'll give you your Next Big Idea.
Proving that ideas are cheap and execution is everything
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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