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Two weeks ago I had no idea what to make, so I made a website allowing anyone to anonymously submit and vote on project ideas. (https://oneweektomake.com https:

Two weeks ago I had no idea what to make, so I made a website allowing anyone to anonymously submit and vote on project ideas. (https://oneweektomake.com https://oneweektomake.com) The deal was that whichever project got the highest score by the end of week 1, I had to actually implement it by the end of week 2. In week 1, 1.1K people visited, 48 ideas were submitted, and 1016 votes were cast. Most of my visitors came from HN by the way, so thank you! (proof: https://simpleanalytics.com/oneweektomake.com https://simpleanalytics.com/oneweektomake.com) The winning project idea was to "turn this into a platform". It had 95 upvotes, hence the title of this post. In 8 days of manic coding, I created that platform: fanfavorite.io. This lets anyone copy my voting page, with their own custom page that they are in charge of, just by filling out a form. I'd love to hear your opinions on it!

chovybizzass 6y ago
i like it. cool idea
- pooriar 6y ago
  Thank you :)
lecarore 6y ago
I had a similar idea when trying to vote with friends on where to go out on a Friday evening (which bar). We used another tool that got the job done. The UI of yours is nicer, but I don't want to create an account for such a one off event. At least, make people fill the poll creation form before asking for sign-up. Make sign up optional, just to get the results by email. Maybe add a web notification button to get updates this way without sign-up.
mxxx 6y ago
Nice one! I built something similar a few years ago, and found the most difficult problem was how to prevent people from voting twice. You sort of get stuck between wanting people to just be able to vote but then also needing them to authenticate somehow to prove that they're only voting once.
crazypython 6y ago
Cool, can you link to prior projects you built?
- pooriar 6y ago
  Hi, thanks! oneweektomake.com is the precursor to this project, and I run a little random newsletter at peptalkto.me

chovybizzass 6y ago

i like it. cool idea

pooriar 6y ago
Thank you :)

lecarore 6y ago

I had a similar idea when trying to vote with friends on where to go out on a Friday evening (which bar). We used another tool that got the job done. The UI of yours is nicer, but I don't want to create an account for such a one off event. At least, make people fill the poll creation form before asking for sign-up. Make sign up optional, just to get the results by email. Maybe add a web notification button to get updates this way without sign-up.

mxxx 6y ago

Nice one! I built something similar a few years ago, and found the most difficult problem was how to prevent people from voting twice. You sort of get stuck between wanting people to just be able to vote but then also needing them to authenticate somehow to prove that they're only voting once.

crazypython 6y ago

Cool, can you link to prior projects you built?

pooriar 6y ago
Hi, thanks! oneweektomake.com is the precursor to this project, and I run a little random newsletter at peptalkto.me