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Really like both the idea and the implementation: the tie in to the email list is quite nice. One possible enhancement I could see would be a followup to the p
by fomojola 9y ago
Really like both the idea and the implementation: the tie in to the email list is quite nice.
One possible enhancement I could see would be a followup to the person making a suggestion. Not sure if there's an easily deduced standard form but basically over a couple of days ask them a few more detailed questions (as a suggestion, maybe 3 questions 2 days later, and 4 questions 5 days later?) to try and dig into the problem and figure out how deeply they've thought about this and if there is really any substance behind it. Things like what they use/how they currently solve this problem and how much time a day does this take: if they can come up with more insight/detail then that might help spur someone to think more about the dev. Otherwise it risks becoming an Internet version of the "Oh, you make apps? I have a GREAT idea you should drop everything you're working on and build" scenario.
Another potential enhancement would be a bounty-style implementation: along with the suggestion they could actually escrow some money towards the idea, and later emails could say "5 people have paid $X towards this idea: submit your solution" as an incentive to developers to actually take the idea seriously. One could almost see this as a reversed-Patreon: instead of posting your work and waiting for people to pay, you post a workable/working solution and if enough people use it/approve you collect the pot. Significantly more thorny to ensure people don't get robbed of their money or time but would be a unique way to crowdsource specific solutions.
- cdiamand 9y agoI really like both of these ideas! Some of these problems could use a bit of fleshing out. And, a bounty program is a good idea too. It's really hard to find people who are willing to share their problems. I wonder if there is a place where these folks gather on the web that I'm just not aware of?
- ThomPete 9y agoI did some research on that and turned into this. It should give you an idea of how and why. https://medium.com/black-n-white/the-problem-with-problems-47ee63bb3511 https://medium.com/black-n-white/the-problem-with-problems-4...
- 52-6F-62 9y agoI like your escrow idea as well. Sort of a decentralized crowdfunder for software projects. Hell that idea could be scaled up to include anything, really