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If you're going to submit an idea to HN, it should be accompanied by more than a Launchrock spashpage. I get that your goal is to gague interest, but please, gi

If you're going to submit an idea to HN, it should be accompanied by more than a Launchrock spashpage. I get that your goal is to gague interest, but please, give us a little more effort than a one-liner and a splash page. How about a blog post outlining your idea with some details on how it would work. "Github for X" is a great jumping off point, but it doesn't tell me anything distinctive about your project.

inkaudio 16y ago
I understand your point, but I spend the better half of the last decade building things and blogging about it and nobody cared. You've never heard of my past projects and they are nowhere to be found because nobody cared. I was not going to repeat that.
- inkaudio 16y ago
  I really didn't know if anyone would care to look, in fact I thought my chances were very low, so this is actual a first for me.
- bradleyland 16y ago
  I'm right there with you :) I'm 35 years old (old for this business), started developing my business ideas at 20, and am still plugging away at what most people would consider crazy (a service-based startup) ideas. Success has only started to develop in the last three years. It's a long, difficult journey. I'm intimately familiar with failure. I can tell you this though, the moment I'm not prepared to commit 100% effort to everything I do is the day that I re-evaluate my choice to remain an entrepreneur. There are too many people out there who are willing to put in 100% all day every day. Even if the momentum of this submission catapults you to point of progress that you've never seen before, you'll have to be ready to commit that 100% effort to stay ahead of the inevitable onslaught of competition. I would encourage you to try to understand what was different this time around. I would be willing to bet that these factors were not all mutually exclusive from your previous efforts. There's no telling if this will lead to a viable business, but if you can figure out what got you noticed this time around, you may be able to repeat it again in the future.

inkaudio 16y ago

I understand your point, but I spend the better half of the last decade building things and blogging about it and nobody cared. You've never heard of my past projects and they are nowhere to be found because nobody cared. I was not going to repeat that.

inkaudio 16y ago
I really didn't know if anyone would care to look, in fact I thought my chances were very low, so this is actual a first for me.
bradleyland 16y ago
I'm right there with you :) I'm 35 years old (old for this business), started developing my business ideas at 20, and am still plugging away at what most people would consider crazy (a service-based startup) ideas. Success has only started to develop in the last three years. It's a long, difficult journey. I'm intimately familiar with failure. I can tell you this though, the moment I'm not prepared to commit 100% effort to everything I do is the day that I re-evaluate my choice to remain an entrepreneur. There are too many people out there who are willing to put in 100% all day every day. Even if the momentum of this submission catapults you to point of progress that you've never seen before, you'll have to be ready to commit that 100% effort to stay ahead of the inevitable onslaught of competition. I would encourage you to try to understand what was different this time around. I would be willing to bet that these factors were not all mutually exclusive from your previous efforts. There's no telling if this will lead to a viable business, but if you can figure out what got you noticed this time around, you may be able to repeat it again in the future.