If they are not behind it, we should still send them this link. They could certainly make use of some of those ideas, maybe with a little bit of twist here and there to make them more comic. I doubt writers could get better startup ideas than actual SV people and SV-wannabies :).

In the original thread I made the joke that they don't really need writers, just a bot that reads popular HN blogspam all day.

Sad thing is it's true.