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(1) If I have an idea but don't have the time to implement it, let someone pick it up through this site. (2) If I have an idea but I'd like to "check the water
by mojuba 20y ago
(1) If I have an idea but don't have the time to implement it, let someone pick it up through this site.
(2) If I have an idea but I'd like to "check the waters" before implementing it.
(3) Any brainstorming.
Most of us shouldn't be afraid of sharing ideas openly, because the value of what we do mostly is in how we do it.
- ido 20y agoThat sounds like a neat idea - but why don't you just use a wiki?
- mojuba 20y agoWiki sucks in many respects, including lack of true parallelism, while a simple reddit-like system with discussions would work better, perhaps with some modifications.
- Leonidas 20y agoYou could just put up a simple forum and people can just enter their "Idea" as a topic on the forum.
- mojuba 20y agoTrue, but doesn't voting add some dynamics to a simple forum?
- sbraford 20y agoHave you guys heard of The Business Experiment? It was trying to do a lot of what's being described here. I also tried to do something similar back in the day, a kind of "human capital investment group." What any "group" that gets together like this will inevitably find is, 99% of people, or more, will just want to put up ideas. The people who would actually implement them (like myself and other entreprehackers on here), already have way to many ideas of their own that they don't have enough time to pursue.
- mojuba 20y agoLooks like TheBusinessExperiment.com is currently down. Can you tell us please what was that about?
- sbraford 20y agohey mojuba, sure. it was kind of like what's being described in this thread. the difference was that the creators wanted to somehow compensate (with stock) both all of the people who submitted ideas / feedback. you can't do that though without coming very very near to violating SEC regulations. (Agloco will surely run into this issue as well) Net result: The Business Experiment had a hard time finding anyone to actually code up the ideas. While their first idea was still in development, a competitor came out that totally demolished their potential app's functionality. The idea was something like Google Answers meets Wisdom of Crowds.
- mojuba 20y agoIn fact, YCnews is perfect, except it doesn't take into account voting that's going on inside a post. That is, if there are good comments under a post from many people (the more the better) that post should get a higher rank. Well, hm, like this one :)
- akkartik 20y agonews.yc doesn't allow searching ideas either. Also, we need some way to search only 'idea' posts. Perhaps if news.yc had tags that would suffice, but otherwise this may deserve a different namespace. Not something one reads everyday but more of a tool to submit or search for ideas.