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[Tell YC]Let's build a Crowdsourced webapp
A litte backstory: When I left my Job to start my startup life, the first thing I did was http://www.7days7app.com/ . Building a webapp in a day is taxing, but a lot of fun. But these are just ... webapps, not usable webapps.
So at news.YC, we have a great collection of people who are interested in Webapps. It would be a great idea to crowdsource together, to build an useful webapp, with a deadline of a week. (This part is important! :) )
What we need:
An Idea: Let us all propose ideas, as a new top level comments, and discuss them. Vote up trhe ideas you like, and we can agree on the most promisisng idea.
Development: A lot of us here are developers, so I don't think this should be a problem. For whatever this is worth, I would be willing to deveote a significant amount of time next week to this.
Design: I don't think there are a lot of designers on news.YC. If we can find designers who are willing to be part of this experience, cool. Otherwise, I think I can convince my partners at www.Uswaretech.com, to sponsor a reasonable money for the designs.
So what are we waiting for? Let's get started!
[Edit: Formatting, of course]
- aaronblohowiak 18y agoPerhaps you meant http://www.7days7apps.com/ http://www.7days7apps.com/ instead of the broken http://www.7days7app.com/ http://www.7days7app.com/ Have you created a project at some hosted distributed scm repo service?
- shabda 18y agoNot yet, let us decide on the idea, and we can host it on Google code/Github etc?
- inovica 18y agoRather than getting complicated, see if something can be built that is really simple at first and if this works then move to creating something else. Two initial ideas from me: 1. A simple site for people to post ideas they want to work on with others. Discussion and possibly some collaboration tools around it. All work would be virtual with this model I suppose, but a site like this provides the mechanism to run your idea more than once 2. Create a simple host/service/site monitoring tool that is distributed across multiple servers From my own experience, and I suspect others here would agree, small teams work the best, so you could always post several ideas and on a first come basis these can be allocated. Then have a demo day for everyone to vote for their favourite.
- shabda 18y agoI am hoping we can do this as an experiment in Crowdsourcing, how fast can a group of interested and intelligent people can come together to build somethinh, which is Usable.
- iuguy 18y agoI think no1 was taken care of by justhackit.com. I'm interested in no2 but don't really have that much time at the mo.