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Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?

• Dumblydorr 7y ago
  What if HN built out a post type for idea sharing? Maybe a monthly post your coding project ideas thread?
• kkoppenhaver 7y ago
  Not a platform, but somebody I follow has been posting ideas like this on his site: https://stevegrunwell.com/categories/thoughts/ideas/ https://stevegrunwell.com/categories/thoughts/ideas/
• thedevindevops 7y ago
  Quality varies wildly but if you're not adverse to reddit, check out /r/AppIdeas
  • balzss 7y ago
    Thanks for suggesting it, I didn't know about that place. It seems like a flood of unrefined ideas coming from non technical people. I also see a lot of "that would be a good business" type of ideas which is definitely not what I'm after. The good thing about that place is that it points out some obvious flaws with my initial idea. Maybe doing it on Github instead of reddit and focusing on developers and requiring a bit more details before submitting a suggestion would solve these? I don't know.
• mynegation 7y ago
  https://www.producthunt.com/posts/ideasdrop https://www.producthunt.com/posts/ideasdrop Producthunt link instead of a direct one so you can check “related” as well.
• gowld 7y ago
  "Ideas are worthless, execution is everything" means that with high probability everyone who can execute already knows your ideas. If your idea isn't good enough for you to work on it, why would it inspire anyone else?
  • balzss 7y ago
    Maybe "idea" is a too vague term here. I'm not thinking about business and large scale things. Only small little things that are in the "sideproject" category. And it's not that it's not good enough for me but having a full time job and other responsibilities seriously limits my abilities for execution. Here the "refinement" of the ideas could be shared like it is in a company environment or in the open source development space (but that is more the execution part). Other than that I see your point and that's why I was (and still is) unsure about this. Maybe it can never work in practice...
  • rocketpastsix 7y ago
    I get your quote, but some people like myself get stuck when we try to think of fun side project ideas or app ideas to build something. This helps people like that who just need a little push in the right direction.
  • sircastor 7y ago
    I don't think there's a direct correlation between a good idea and or interest in pursuing it. The idea may simply not cross the threshold of what you want to send time on. This also may be one of those things that's not a billion dollar idea, or a million dollar idea, but just a 'couple of thousand dollars' idea. Some people aren't willing to spend time on things that don't cross that money threshold, but others most be willing to do it.
  • neverartful 7y ago
    That's a good point. On the other hand one may have ideas that are not pursued because of: lack of domain expertise, lack of capital, family commitments, etc.
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• iloveitaly 7y ago
  Here's a twitter-sourced list of product ideas: https://www.requestforproduct.co https://www.requestforproduct.co
• pjmorris 7y ago
  I'm reminded of the Halfbakery [0] "The Halfbakery is a communal database of original, fictitious inventions, edited by its users. It was created by people who like to speculate, both as a form of satire and as a form of creative expression." [1] [0] https://www.halfbakery.com/ https://www.halfbakery.com/ [1] https://www.halfbakery.com/editorial/about.html https://www.halfbakery.com/editorial/about.html
  • balzss 7y ago
    Thanks for sharing it. It is similar to what I was describing although on a much broader scale. I'll look into it in more details later because it has some funny/interesting suggestions.
  • ravenstine 7y ago
    Whoa, that site is still around! Brings back some web 1.0 memories. I used to hit that one regularly in my search results.
  • beamatronic 7y ago
    Fictitious? I put my very best ideas on there.
    • pjmorris 7y ago
      :) I am just quoting their about page verbatim. Personally, I think the statement undersells its value considerably.
  • herval 7y ago
    First idea I opened actually got implemented: https://www.halfbakery.com/idea/anti_20enron_20policy#1080234000 https://www.halfbakery.com/idea/anti_20enron_20policy#108023...
  • netrap 7y ago
    I've been trying to remember this site for a long time. This is it! Thanks for posting, couldn't remember what the name was for ages!
• xena 7y ago
  Twitter
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• PookMook 7y ago
  I'm building https://makeithappen.dev https://makeithappen.dev just for that, it's in the MVP stage and pretty slow, but it will get there eventually!
  • PookMook 7y ago
    (btw, looking for other people that would want to build something like that, feel free to reach if interested!)
• mcxlog 7y ago
  The journal of brief ideas, https://beta.briefideas.org/about https://beta.briefideas.org/about
• ataylor32 7y ago
  https://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/
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• Razengan 7y ago
  > I'm in the camp of ”Ideas are worthless” Then why ask people here for ideas for a platform? You are here because you couldn’t think of all possibilities yourself. Ideas are the first step, without which everything that comes after, wouldn’t.
  • balzss 7y ago
    I didn't used the expression in a literal sense (which I tried to state but maybe I didn't do it well enough). For me "ideas are worthless" represents the opposite of the mindset where people get secretive about their ideas or not wanting to give them away because they are afraid that someone will make good money with it. I clearly care about ideas if I want everybody to share theirs. I just want to do it openly and freely without people thinking that others will steal them and make advantage of them.
    • lidHanteyk 7y ago
      Grandparent is right, though; everybody starts out as an ideas-first person. That's because having ideas is really easy and anybody can do it. It sounds like you want the validation and esteem of your peers on the basis of your ideas. The cold reality is that having an idea does not at all entitle you to a reward; other people will also have your idea, and you'll feel like they have "stolen" or "made advantage of" your dream. Many ideas are counterproductive; if they were carried out to fruition, they would either need to be retrofitted to the point of being a different idea entirely, or consume too many resources in proportion to the resources being saved. It is completely reasonable, therefore, to insist that ideas are not enough and that prototypes are required before designs can be considered for production. Finally, consider a Kantian perspective. We can't all be ideas-first people. Therefore it'd be a lot more moral of you if you developed some programming skills.
  • svrtknst 7y ago
    It seems you misread the comment, no? There's little gain in being this standoffish, especially when your interpretation is off. They're obvioulsy not saying that ideas are worthless, period - They're saying that ideas alone don't go anywhere unless you execute them. Furthermore, it seems they're here to share ideas, not to execute others.
• NateEag 7y ago
  I just maintain such a list on my website: http://www.nateeag.com/software/ideas.html http://www.nateeag.com/software/ideas.html I haven't tried to publicize it at all (well, until this post). Start the list on a website somewhere, and if you want people to look at it, submit it to HN, Reddit, et al. That should give you everything you need. Not everything needs to be a platform.
  • balzss 7y ago
    > Not everything needs to be a platform I couldn't agree more. I was thinking about a github repo so people can contribute via pull requests. I should have put more emphasis on the fun part and how I don't want it to be a Business Ideas™ because that goes against the spirit of my original goal. I also like your list. Maybe I should put my list on my website as well. Thanks for sharing.
    • NateEag 7y ago
      You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed it. The whole site is just a static thing whose code and content lives on GitHub: https://github.com/NateEag/nateeag.com https://github.com/NateEag/nateeag.com Good luck putting yours together!
  • severine 7y ago
    Nice list! There are at least four Android GPS trackers in F-Droid: OpenTracks, RunnerUp, OSMTracker and TinyTravelTracker, maybe there's one less app you need to build! https://github.com/OpenTracksApp/OpenTracks https://github.com/OpenTracksApp/OpenTracks https://github.com/jonasoreland/runnerup https://github.com/jonasoreland/runnerup https://github.com/labexp/osmtracker-android/wiki https://github.com/labexp/osmtracker-android/wiki https://github.com/redfish64/TinyTravelTracker https://github.com/redfish64/TinyTravelTracker
    • NateEag 7y ago
      Thanks for the links! Some of these I'd seen before and I actually used OSMTracker to generate GPS traces of my walks for a while. OpenTracks looks like it might be closest to what I'd like. What I really want, though, is something that aggregates the data from a collection of GPS tracks to give me the big picture - basically a static site generator that takes a directory of GPS tracks as input. I've got a few tiny steps towards that implemented in a private repo, actually. It's private because my GPS traces are right there in the repo - maybe I should split them apart and get it out in the open. A bonus feature / stretch goal would be to use ANT+ (or something else) to log heart rate and any other markers from a fitness device and provide deeper analysis based on those (also helpful for things like strength training where GPS is inapplicable). BangleJS might just get me off my butt to work on this if it ships and gets good reviews: https://banglejs.com/ https://banglejs.com/
• nabnob 7y ago
  Follow up question - Does anyone have advice for changing your mindset so you actually notice a potential idea when you have some pain point? I feel like I ignore my own ideas that seem insignificant. It just isn't a reflex to think "hey I should write a program to solve this".
  • gamerDude 7y ago
    You could take a route similar to how you train your brain to notice that you are dreaming. Basically, start making it a priority in your mind to notice these ideas by creating a habit to think about them intentionally. Take some time everyday to write down any and every idea you have for a software that would help solve something, anything. It's not the ideas the matter, it's about training your brain to make them important. If possible, do it multiple times a day. Fast forward a couple weeks and you'll be writing down that "insignificant" idea you just had!
    • nabnob 7y ago
      This is good advice, thanks!
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• elicash 7y ago
  A more honest way to say "ideas are worthless" would be to claim that there's no such thing as a first mover advantage. Here's a take that looks into that question fairly: https://hbr.org/2005/04/the-half-truth-of-first-mover-advantage https://hbr.org/2005/04/the-half-truth-of-first-mover-advant...
  • balzss 7y ago
    I totally agree with you and thanks for sharing the article. I'll read it later.
• Iv 7y ago
  Ideas are not just cheap, the huge majority of them are actually bad. Most ideas are actually not worth the time to consider them. If you want a repository for good ideas, I think first you need to find a way to filter the bad ones.
  • NateEag 7y ago
    And if you could do that reliably, you should already be a billionaire from your many successful startups.
    • Iv 7y ago
      Success is 1% inspiration 99% perspiration. Being successful at business is a different skillset than having good technical ideas. The best idea in the world won't build you a sales force magically nor will it put into place a manufacturing chain for you.
      • NateEag 7y ago
        Yes, agreed. But if you can consistently predict whether an idea is "good", by definition you should be either hitting it out of the park consistently or getting massive returns on investments.
  • balzss 7y ago
    You are spot on. After checking some recommended sites here (e.g. /r/appideas) it's clear that a lot of people just shitting out (for lack of a better word) ideas without half of a thought on execution. I think there are a particular kind of people who do this. The kind who wants to patent everything and always looking for the Next Big Thing™. I have no solution for this other then focusing on the following things: - How detailed the idea is. The mere fact that someone took the time to think about it and write it down (1-2 page at least) is a good first filter that throws out things such as "It's like tinder but for job search". - Limiting it to "technical" people who has experience with actual execution of ideas and instinctively point out problems
• rtx 7y ago
  Kickstarter look at products which have good response and see if you can execute faster and better.
  • AznHisoka 7y ago
    Same for upwork requests. See if you can find common tasks that can be automated or generalized into a product.
• jcadam 7y ago
  There are a lot of us with the technical chops (and/or can get a team together) to make a good software solution/product/service that are stuck on step 1: Identifying a real problem that companies will pay money to have solved for them. I wish there was a place/service that would connect businesses with real problems (that they either can't or would rather not solve in-house) with aspiring (tech) entrepreneurs. I'm sure there's a large number of such opportunities out there, probably in industries/domains most software devs don't have much experience in and wouldn't think to explore.
  • truckerbill 7y ago
    Looks like you've just identified a real problem that entrepreneurs will pay money to have solved for them.
  • yourapostasy 7y ago
    You identified a sales problem. There is a giant gulf between problems that companies say they have, even say they want to pay for, and actually cutting a purchase order when the rubber meets the road. What we are lacking is a blockchain-verifiable reputation audit trail into an escrow-like system tied to an ideas factory on one side, implementers on another side, and funders on a third side, down to the individual natural person level. The problem with an escrow is no one wants to park unused capital, but implementers are screwed if they put up the effort and when it comes time to collect all the "funders" evaporate. Milestone-based backing also encounters problems with funders getting screwed when implementers reel off an endless stream of milestones with no real end in sight, like with Star Citizen. If you can trace escrow and delivery promises (perhaps with time bounds) not just to an organization but to a natural person sponsor within that organization, then over time the actual probability of funders and implementers actually delivering can be tracked and algorithmically computed for present and future promises to fund or deliver. This tends to flush out sociopathic individuals who hide their track record behind their hops from organization to organization (especially those who implement dark patterns that only show up in the long-run). This is just recognizing a general scaling problem with monetary systems in general: they preserve pricing information but lossy encode all other aspects of the transaction, and that doesn't work efficiently in a global economy.
• zekehernandez 7y ago
  I love thinking of video game ideas, so much so that I made a website to publish the ideas in a rather fleshed out manner: http://creativeowlet.com/ http://creativeowlet.com/
• d99kris 7y ago
  Perhaps https://www.ideaswatch.com/ https://www.ideaswatch.com/
• perk 7y ago
  Not a platform but relevant: Products I'd Pay For, 2020 Edition https://dmonn.ch/smb-2020/ https://dmonn.ch/smb-2020/ I'm not the author.
• melicerte 7y ago
  My humble suggestion: write a web page with all your ideas, publish the page on HN and let people comments. It has already been done in the past.
• meerita 7y ago
  You can do that on Twitter.
• cdiamand 7y ago
  I tried to tackle this problem, or atleast the problem of helping people find ideas. I built http://oppsdaily.com http://oppsdaily.com and http://oppslist.com http://oppslist.com. They're both now sunset and I'm no longer sending emails out or updating the platform. I will say that ideas are generally far less valuable than a first customer. My readers told me time and time again that they wanted to be connected to someone who would pay for the idea. That is the real challenge, and if you can figure that out, you're going to have a booming business. And I think there is opportunity in the space somewhere between e-lance and just "ideas". Some kind of platform that matches a developer and an initial customer in a way that rewards both. Finding these people is a challenge, but I think it's possible, and the person who figures out how to do it is going to have a MASSIVE business on their hands. I could go on about this a lot further, but I wholly recommend exploring it. I'm onto my next project now, which interestingly is helping people find investing ideas. We launched yesterday so we'll see how it goes. If you want to chat about the idea space - cory @t topstonks.com or check out the the new project its at http://topstonks.com http://topstonks.com. Good luck!
  • jcadam 7y ago
    > Some kind of platform that matches a developer and an initial customer in a way that rewards both. Finding these people is a challenge, but I think it's possible, and the person who figures out how to do it is going to have a MASSIVE business on their hands. I could go on about this a lot further, but I wholly recommend exploring it. I'd pursue it, but I wouldn't know how to go about finding a first customer for the platform :)
    • cdiamand 7y ago
      Haha, this is "THE" great question. Maybe if you can find a way to siphon off demand from another platform, like craigslist or someplace? I think about it a lot!
  • asdf333 7y ago
    love the name. good luck
• xwowsersx 7y ago
  Products that people wish existed are usually (not always) terrible ideas. There's no barrier to just blurting out something you wish existed - you know, something you want to exist, but you definitely won't be building and can't promise you'll use and definitely won't pay for. There's literally nothing holding you back from stating something that you wish existed even if it's just a tiny thing that you personally want in this specific moment for this specific use case.
• mindcrime 7y ago
  Dig through the HN archives... I'm pretty sure that some variation of the basic idea of "a platform for sharing ideas that people want to give away" has been developed about 100 times over the past 10 years or so. OK, maybe not quite 100, but this seems to come up fairly often, and I'm pretty sure I remember more than a few people saying "I'm building a site to X" where X is pretty close to the above notion.
• samsquire 7y ago
  I've got my list of ideas here; https://github.com/samsquire/ideas https://github.com/samsquire/ideas
  • darekkay 7y ago
    Nice - a really long, detailed list of ideas. My dashboard project [1] is related to your item #5 (Life Engine), but it's a way to early state to be included on your list. Thanks for some new ideas. [1] https://dashboard.darekkay.com/docs/ https://dashboard.darekkay.com/docs/
  • karlicoss 7y ago
    Wow, that's fantastic! Bookmarked as it would take a while to read through :) Have you considered adding table of contents by the way? P.S. from a quick glance we seem to share some: - personal infrastructure: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21844105 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21844105 - personal data api, separating frontend and backend: https://beepb00p.xyz/mypkg.html#examples https://beepb00p.xyz/mypkg.html#examples (draft) - life engine: I've got a personal dashboard for health, exercise and sleep; also timeline for life events Exciting!
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• DannyDover 7y ago
  The podcast, Steal This Idea, does exactly what you are looking for. The hosts and their guests come up with most of the ideas, but listeners can submit ideas as well: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/steal-this-idea/id1472895373 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/steal-this-idea/id1472...
• philshem 7y ago
  Slight variation: http://highdeas.com/ http://highdeas.com/
• egypturnash 7y ago
  Twiter
• scotttheamazing 7y ago
  We have a podcast that covers these kinds of ideas! Basically every week we give out million dollar business ideas and encourage people to steal them! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/steal-this-idea/id1472895373 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/steal-this-idea/id1472...
• kerridge0 7y ago
  used to be one called the global ideas bank but went away presumably due to lack of funding. Founded by Nicholas Albery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Albery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Albery
• BigBalli 7y ago
  I believe most of us techies have our own personal list saved somewhere. Your best bet is probably Reddit if you do not have a large following on social media.
• kerkeslager 7y ago
  I'm in the camp of "Ideas are worthless, execution is everything", in a literal sense. I'd rather have an executed bad idea than a good idea. An obvious conclusion of this is that even though I think your "platform for sharing ideas" idea is bad, just execute it. :)
  • ada1981 7y ago
    Intend to think of ideas as an exponent to execution. You can take 5 years working your ass off to build a local pizza shop or Uber. And from working with both small and large business people the hours and stress is about the same. A great idea will reward execution much more than a bad idea.
• rapnie 7y ago
  Open source ideas: https://github.com/open-source-ideas/open-source-ideas https://github.com/open-source-ideas/open-source-ideas
• oth001 7y ago
  Good idea!
• buboard 7y ago
  https://www.reddit.com/r/AppIdeas/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AppIdeas/
• wpietri 7y ago
  For a while I ran an event called Pitchosaurus. We'd get together in the evening with beers. The general structure was: Someone pitches the core of an idea. The idea can be either serious or ridiculous, but they should always pitch it as if it were serious. Then everybody else, one at a time, proposed amendments or amplifications. These too may be serious or ridiculous, but they must be done in a "yes and" [1] style. No criticism is allowed (although add-ons may of course address a perceived flaw. Eventually, when the amendments stop coming, a brief discussion of the idea and related topics is allowed. When that runs down, start again. It was a lot of fun. I stopped doing it for life-happens reasons, but I'd encourage anybody to pick it up and run with it. It might be possible to capture the spirit in a website as well. Feel free to email or tweet at me if I can be of service. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_and.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_and...
  • frankus 7y ago
    There's a card game that was recently on KickStarter called Pitch Deck: https://pitchdeck.business https://pitchdeck.business, sort of in the vein of Schmoovie.
• kamranahmedse 7y ago
  I am not aware of such platform but you can just create a GitHub repository and dump your ideas there. Alot of people especially new developers are looking for project ideas; you can just put your ideas there and share the repository in /r/learnprogramming or similar subreddits.
• Can_Not 7y ago
  I found a similar platform to what to are describing once in the past, the main issue was that 100% of the ideas I found were wildly outside the scope of apps I was interested in making. Maybe if I could categorically exclude IOT, iPhone ideas, blockchain, full video games, etc..
• anant90 7y ago
  I've been trying to give away ideas via a simple Twitter thread that I hope to keep updating over time: https://twitter.com/anant90/status/1171867648285540352 https://twitter.com/anant90/status/1171867648285540352 Incidentally, "a platform for sharing well-researched ideas" is #11 on this list :)
• ogou 7y ago
  Yes, it's called "grandparents" and can also be found on "in-laws."
• hananbo 7y ago
  I've built willpayfor.com not long ago. You're all welcome to share ideas and mention how valuable in terms of money a product or service might be.
• hananbo 7y ago
  I've built https://willpayfor.com https://willpayfor.com scratching my own itch. You're all welcome to share ideas there, please also mention how valuable a product or service idea might be or specify how you think it should be monitized
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• pjeziorowski 7y ago
  I've just started an opensource project (platform) that closely matches your idea. We gathered over 60 people interested in contributing on Slack in just two days. A quote from my post on dev.to where it all started - "A platform where people can express their app wishes (e.g. "I wish I had an app for X and Y") and vote up other people's great ideas. Developers can use Appwish to keep track of the most wanted apps and features. They can assign themselves to projects, create dev teams and collaborate to fulfil people's needs. In the future, the platform could also introduce elements of fund-raising or voluntary donations for the most appreciated developers and teams." At the moment we are on stage of planning features/architecture and the development will start soon - we got frontend developers, backend devs, devops, a few designers and even mobile devs. + We were offered free hosting on one of startups offering managed Kubernetes clusters. If anyone is interested, I can share our Slack channel/Github URL - we put everything in public anyways :)
  • craze3 7y ago
    Yes, post the Slack invite link... This sounds really interesting!
    • pjeziorowski 7y ago
      Here you are - https://join.slack.com/t/appwish/shared_invite/enQtODk4MTgzOTMwMjg4LWUwZGFlNjQ5ZWZiMzIyYWRmYjA1NDgyMzVlMjIxNzc4NTU0NmUyMWIzYzgyNzk0YjVlMDkzMjZjMmUzYmQyMTg https://join.slack.com/t/appwish/shared_invite/enQtODk4MTgzO...
• carapace 7y ago
  WWW Start a web-ring?
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• sne11ius 7y ago
  Live your idea ;) I built https://egghead.space https://egghead.space exeggdly for this - absolutely some pun intended ;) Just look at this awesome idea: https://egghead.space/sketch/iKGw9vQ9Qmub39Djz1ZR/Fallout+4+face+generator https://egghead.space/sketch/iKGw9vQ9Qmub39Djz1ZR/Fallout+4+... I never managed to bring it beyond alpha stage though and no one ever used it. Main problem for me was that I always got the feeling it looked just ugly. I'm not a designer, so that was really demotivating...
• SilasX 7y ago
  I thought that Kickstarter/Indiegogo had effectively become this. A common complaint is, "hey, I launched a Kickstarter, got funded, and some Chinese factory stole the idea!" My response is always, "so? Aren't those sites more for 'I wish this existed so I could be a customer' than 'I want to personally profit from this idea'?" So, yeah, if you don't care about someone stealing it, you might be able to repurpose Kickstarter that way: 1) Start a KS for the idea. 2) Wait for someone to steal it. 3) Cancel and refund everyone's money.
  • nitwit005 7y ago
    I assume there's still some friction from credit card charges and whatnot, but I do like that plan as a cheap way to get something made.
    • SilasX 7y ago
      I wasn't sure, so I checked their help page, and apparently, failed projects aren't charged anything: >If a project does not reach its funding goal, no fees are collected. https://help.kickstarter.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005028634-What-are-the-fees- https://help.kickstarter.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005028634-... I don't know how they handle -- or if it would be an issue if you went the route of -- "Funding goal met but canceled anyway". Or if they have rules against, "I have no idea how to make this thing but that stereotypical overseas factory says they can do it so I'm contracting it out to them."
    • passivepinetree 7y ago
      IIRC they don't actually run anyone's cards until the project meets the goal, so refunding isn't an issue. Perhaps someone who's funded a Kickstarter more recently than me could confirm.
• acvny 7y ago
  Producthunt
• karlicoss 7y ago
  I keep mine on my personal blog https://beepb00p.xyz/ideas.html https://beepb00p.xyz/ideas.html In fact one of main drives to write for me is to spread ideas on other people so someone else works on them!
  • gitgud 7y ago
    Wow pretty interesting, I too wonder why avocados are the only fatty fruit! Does that page use a framework? Or is it designed from scratch? Very cool design.
    • karlicoss 7y ago
      Thanks! I don't have much imagination so compensate for it by at least having clean design, glad when people like it :) These are all just static pages, exported from org-mode (as most of my blog pages) + org-css theme [0] + some minor HTML/CSS tweaks and posprocessing I'm describing in github readme [1] I'll upload all org-mode sources at some point as well, just need to think of a good way of cleaning them up from even more chaotic personal notes (which aren't exported). [0] https://github.com/gongzhitaao/orgcss https://github.com/gongzhitaao/orgcss [1] https://github.com/karlicoss/beepb00p#org-mode https://github.com/karlicoss/beepb00p#org-mode
  • j88439h84 7y ago
    Zulip does threaded chat.
  • rtb 7y ago
    Great list. Re advocados: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1c94s3/why_do_avocados_contain_so_much_fat/ https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1c94s3/why_do_a...
• gitgud 7y ago
  This mailing list share ideas with an execution plan too. Fun to read in the inbox every now and then. https://www.startupsfromthebottom.com/ https://www.startupsfromthebottom.com/
• dwrodri 7y ago
  I keep an idea list on my personal website. I like the thought of my ideas being valuable enough to hide in plain sight, but interesting enough to be worth saving and sharing with my fellow nerd friends on occasion.
• fullstackchris 7y ago
  a few from product hunt product i occasionally look at that are fun: http://problemoftheday.co/ http://problemoftheday.co/ https://ideasareworthless.io/ https://ideasareworthless.io/
• justboxing 7y ago
  24K Members: https://www.reddit.com/r/Startup_Ideas/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Startup_Ideas/ 569K Members: https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyIdeas/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyIdeas/ The 1st one is pretty active in that you get feedback also from the community.
  • zhamisen 7y ago
    There is also https://www.reddit.com/r/Lightbulb/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Lightbulb/
• pseudozach 7y ago
  Ironically this is on my to-do list. A site where devs can put out ideas, users can lock money on them and the person that develops it and brings it live can claim the bounty. I have so many ideas but I'm tired of putting out things that only a few people use as are lots of others on here.
• mmmuhd 7y ago
  Well I am in the camp of "ideas and even execution are worthless" now, what really matters is strong focus, I have executed 3 ideas from November of last year but after building them to what I feel like is a finished mvp, I always feel strong irresistible desire to build something else that I think is the coolest thing only to throw it after finishing, this is really my problem now.
• akman 7y ago
  Y Combinator Requests for Startups: https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/ https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/
• ken 7y ago
  I appreciate the sentiment, but at the same time, most ideas are worthless. Even if you had knowledge of some successful system of today, went to an alternate universe that lacked it, and described it to them in detail, the team would still screw it up. It's not their baby. They need a leader who gets it, not just an idea dump. Recall the story of Bezos and his challenge to let customers order from Amazon "with a single click". His team's first prototype required twelve clicks. He sent them back to work, and the second prototype required two clicks. It's not a question of complexity, because ideas don't get any simpler than that.
• aanonymouse 7y ago
  https://www.fiveideasaday.com/ https://www.fiveideasaday.com/ Could run into same issues as others, but right now looks to be focused on the light-hearted, fun aspect of idea generation and potential for sparking creativity. Unsure about the intent to start a sub community that is paid, don’t think this will be the long term winning approach.
• aabbcc1241 7y ago
  The Idea Machine A live crowd-sourced collection of ideas for new apps & business ideas that have been requested by the internet. Sorted by Hot, Top and New. With upvotes and downvotes. To post your own idea use the hashtag #ideaMachine or click the "submit a new idea" button below. http://www.ideamachine.io/ http://www.ideamachine.io/ (I'm not the owner, just share it here)
• AlchemistCamp 7y ago
  Yes, there is: https://nugget.one/nuggets https://nugget.one/nuggets
• jelliclesfarm 7y ago
  You said that you are of the camp that ‘ideas of worthless’. That strikes me as predatory. People who are technical and don’t have creativity to come up with new ideas should be employees, not creators. People who can come up with ideas but cannot manage need managers. All those who cannot come up with any of the above should be investors. It is a cunning trick that I observed in the past decade in the start up scene. Instinctively I don’t trust anyone who says that ‘ideas are worthless’. Perhaps this is the reason why many start ups fail. There is no creator or domain expert. I see that in Agtech. The best Agtech companies are those who have some connection to farming. A handful of them are technical. Even those who are technical do not work in the field. It is the uneducated non technical Joses and Marias who are immigrant labour that do all the work that needs to be automated. They are not technical. They barely know English. But by not including those who Agtech is seeking to replace with tech and robots at the table, they set themselves up for failure. I have a small farm and a little technical, but Ag robotics is multiple platforms. As a small farm owner who also has to keep the farm financially solvent and someone who also does manual work that needs to be replaced, I can spot right away how many of the Agtech companies will fail. And most of them will fail. The ones that will make it are those who have someone in the team with in-field experience. It’s this non technical team that will come up with the best ideas because they know where they need help desperately. This is also why Europe will likely succeed first in Agtech than America. Because they have technical expertise as well as the idea team. I hope those who dismiss ideas will reconsider. An idea is like a possibility. There are many ways it can fail and a narrower path to succeed. Only the person who came up with the idea will know the limitations and by excluding them, the chances of failures are multiplied. As an aside: YC is also guilty of this dismissive attitude. This is also why most start ups will fail. Failure is not necessarily a bad thing but failed start ups are graveyard of what may have succeeded. It’s an enormous waste of space and resources. The only upside is redistribution of capital and creation of jobs. Hence even failed start ups and bad ideas that get funding is not necessary a bad thing. If we don’t have jobs, I guess there won’t be a way to employ the hordes of STEM educated young people pouring out into the world as they come of age.
• BlameKaneda 7y ago
  When I'm bored, I occasionally find myself here: https://unawaz.github.io/stochastic-hill-climbing/tasks/ https://unawaz.github.io/stochastic-hill-climbing/tasks/ Unfortunately there isn't a way to submit anything.