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Weekly IdeaWarz Winner - Open Render Networks
Weekly IdeaWarz has another winner! Congratulations to Kevin_Cox for his idea, Open Render Networks.
Here’s the Pitch: For Everyone who uses a computer the Open Render Network is a public processing powerhouse that optimizes performance, speeds render time, and accelerates innovation without investment in IT infrastructure. Unlike high cost commercial computer grids our product is cheap or even free.
Cambrian House community and staff are divided over the merits of this idea. Some are adamant this idea is great only in theory and would not support a viable business model, yet it won this week’s tournament by a landslide! Certainly there are examples of network computing (yes similar ideas have been implemented) but we can’t find a commercial success story to date.
Will Open Render Networks destroy the competition? Or co-exist in a comfortable niche? Will Kevin_Cox build a new peer-to-peer computing structure from the ground up? Or can he leverage existing technologies and still make a buck? Will he arrange for possible competitors within the community to meet untimely deaths? Or will they band together to knock this one out of the park?
Check out our video for more discussion on Kevin_Cox’s idea!
Honorable Mentions:
- Best Painkiller: Mobile Phone Application Tester Service by fish99
- Good idea but misunderstood?: Babybookpro.com by mannymix03
- Most Entertaining: JinxMyBoss by Tournesol
- Christine’s Pick: mobiFlick by Me_
In the last 7 days, we received the most idea comments in a 7 day period ever, and the most votes in a 7 day period since the very beginning of idea voting in Aug 2006. We say that’s some nice feedback on the current tournament format, no?
Would love to read your thoughts, let us know what you think. Be part of the wisdom of crowds by voting in next week’s round and…
May the best idea win!
June 21st, 2007 at 10:08 am
Hey all
Thanks for the support and the honorable mention re the best painkiller.
June 21st, 2007 at 11:15 am
np - well deserved.
June 21st, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Congrats Kevin. Great idea.
June 21st, 2007 at 10:00 pm
Too funny, best painkiller. I’m trying to think of how I can use that at my next social outing. (I’m due out in October 2008).
Kevin, I said congrats in the forum, and repeat it here. Cheers!
June 22nd, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Um… How do you express the business model in 1000 characters???
I get what you are saying MJ but come on its only a limited amount of space?
You just can’t get that across in so little space?
June 25th, 2007 at 10:48 am
hey gods_light - convert your idea into a business and use the wiki to work on your business model and/or update docs. I would suggest using Guy Kawasaki’s Art of the Start template.
June 27th, 2007 at 10:51 am
About the winning idea:
On the video, MJ’s comments on Kevin’s idea are at the “industrial strength” end of the scale - he envisions a system that Pixar could use for a feature film.
My vision as I read about the idea was more of a retail thing, for smaller users who wouldn’t be able to buy the computing power they need, but could bring some great ideas to life if they had borrowed computing resources.
It isn’t limited to film and graphic art, which I think some people in the idea discussion threads had made clear.
Anyway, today’s the last day of school here in Calgary. Starting at 3 p.m. today all those computers are going to be on summer vacation. Could they potentially be generating revenue for the schools? I think our local Board of Education should seriously look at negotiating partnerships to sell this - evenings, weekends, summer.
Hmmmm.