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Future startup ideas excavated from science fiction
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A research archive of 6,222 fictional inventions mined from old science fiction and translated into present-day startup opportunities.
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PH · launched Nov 2, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 6%)
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- B2C
- Hobby / open-source project
- Artificial Intelligence
- Books
- Business
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See all 89 similar launches →Could you build this?
Partial The website itself is simple to build, but the 6,222-entry archive of mined fictional inventions and their startup translations is a large curated dataset that is the real work.
What it would actually take: A static or lightly dynamic site with search, tagging, and per-entry pages is easy to vibe-code. The hard part is the content: extracting inventions from a large body of science fiction, verifying and summarizing them, and writing credible startup translations for each. That requires sustained research labor and editorial judgment, and LLM-assisted extraction would still need human review to be trustworthy.
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Launched 363 days after the earliest competitor.
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