Ask HN: Trouble deciding between 2 ideas

[quotz]

How to choose one idea over the other? Not as sideprojects but more serious ones

[DoreenMichele]

I generally let life decide this for me. Interest, traction, whatever can cause one project to suck up more of my time than the other. At some point, this becomes a formal decision to stop sinking resources into some half baked idea that is failing to launch and get more serious and organized about the thing that has legs.

[tlack]

a mix of the following works for me:

1. resources (time) required to get mvp together to test assumptions

2. amount of long-term work needed to get foothold in market

3. total size of market vs costs over growth -> projections

4. if you fail, what have you lost? sunk costs vs variable ones.. redeemable experience at the end..?

5. most importantly, which actually interests you more?

[anigbrowl]

Flip a coin and see whether you feel disappointed by the outcome.

[smt88]

Ask potential customers