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Very nice, apparently this is a great enough need (perceived at least) that crowdsourcing seed money worked. I wonder if there are other sites this would work

Very nice, apparently this is a great enough need (perceived at least) that crowdsourcing seed money worked. I wonder if there are other sites this would work for - ones that have huge userbases, with a big enough proportion of them being very dissatisfied?

jacquesm 16y ago
That's a good point, the anti-facebook hype is definitely what drives this (and facebook is helping nicely), but for other ventures it may not be so easy to get the public mobilized. Throwing $10 or $50 on the table for a bunch of strangers out of frustration is probably quicker done than out of interest for a good but unproven idea. If linux hadn't happened someone could go and suggest to rewrite windows in 3 months if $10,000,000 is pledged. There must be other sources of frustration on the web.