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No Dumb Ideas
Personal blog · nodumbideas.com · on HN as nodumbideasbusinessstartups
No Dumb Ideas is a personal blog at nodumbideas.com about business and startups. Since 2025, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Betting on the Pope was the original prediction market”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One HN commenter links this blog for a historical piece on betting on papal conclaves. The comment is brief and only points to that article.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
No Dumb Ideas is a newsletter where I take nonsensical, and possibly brilliant, business ideas and follow them through to their logical conclusion.
Most-linked posts?
- Betting on the Pope was the original prediction market2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-07
What Hacker News says?
There was also an interesting article here a month ago about the history of betting on conclaves. https://nodumbideas.com/p/betting-on-the-pope-was-the-origin... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43290892
Comment linking /p/betting-on-the-pope-was-the-original
on “First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV”Submitted Betting on the Pope was the original prediction market as a story · 145 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Startup idea: a swag recycling service as a story · 1 points
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