A Startup A Day

You Might Be A Geek

March 23, 2007 · 1 Comment

Regardless of what your mom may tell you, you might be a geek if…

- You own over 50 t-shirts. Most of them are black. You only paid for three of them.

- You’ve ever flamed a podcast for not having OGG support.

- You’re not gay, but if you were, you’d have a major crush on Kevin Rose.

- Your initial description of any new beer uses a variation of the word “hop”.

- You’ve spent an entire day getting Open GL running on SuSe just for the “Window Wobble” effect.

- You went to the midnight showing of any Star Wars movie, but only to make fun of the dressed-up nerds.

- You now have the Mario Bros. theme stuck in your head.

- You’ve stopped fixing computers unless A) you’re getting paid or B) the girl is smoking hot.

- You refuse to use a technology product because of a deep-seeded belief that it is evil.

- You buy a special brand of contacts because the standard ones aren’t thick enough.

- You think anything, and I mean anything, that is even slightly related to ninjas is automatically cool.

- You can concisely explain why LAN parties suck and XBox Live is awesome.

- You’re embarassed to admit that your high school yearbook picture bears a stricking resemblance to Blake Ross.

Happy Friday, hope you enjoy your weekend!

Categories: Not Ideas

Startup #10 – Fat Pile of Cash

March 23, 2007 · 1 Comment

Picture this. You pull into the office at 8am. You spend three hours working on a PowerPoint presentation, four hours crunching a quarterly budget report in Excel, and two more hours answering Email before heading home. A week later you get a paycheck automatically deposited to your bank account. But overall, pretty boring, right?

Now picture this scenario. You complete a PowerPoint presentation, your boss comes into your office and hands you $40 in cash. After the budget report? $55 bucks! Then another $20 or so just for sending some Emails!! And that trip to the bathroom with your copy of USA Today tucked discreetly under your arm?  $5.  Cash is a great motivator for those of us who love immediate gratification.

Here’s the idea. A widget that monitors the work that you do and presents a running total of exactly how much you are earning for doing that task. You type in your yearly salary and the widget automatically calculates how much cash you earn per minute. It would be a fun (or maybe depressing) way to track what you are earning for completing your tasks.

What do you guys think?  Anyone else on the widget bandwagon?  Shhhh…I just got paid $3 for this blog post…

Categories: Ideas