Strategies for Generating Ideas

I've started a creative exercise where I take a few minutes to think up a few new tech startup ideas per day, mostly based on the criteria of my own interest in them or things I think would be fun to build. After a few days of doing this, I've had to come up with strategies for generating ideas when I'm stumped. It's not too hard to think of these strategies. A few I came up with are: cruise Product Hunt and make tangents of the top daily launches, make a list of attributes of startups (industries, markets, core tech) and combine them randomly, or just think of what you think about through the course of the day and what you wish you had to help you. The most surprising thing about this exercise is that I thought I was bad at idea generation (I don't usually think this way,) but once I tried it has been easier to do than I thought. But are they good ideas? Well...