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Great!! I have this idea in my list of ideas as well. I had thought about this for sometime, and will share a few of thoughts. 1. Ownership of the resultant pr

Great!! I have this idea in my list of ideas as well. I had thought about this for sometime, and will share a few of thoughts. 1. Ownership of the resultant product: If some likes an idea, and builds upon it? who owns the products? Does, the person with the idea owns a part of it? I hope US has first to invent system, that means the person who first runs with that idea, has the most advantage. How do we tackle this? 2. Incentive for the thinker: I'm willing to share ideas that I'm not ready to work on. But, others may find it useful and that may also go on to become a billion dollar business. But, I might like to have something out of it, not money necessarily, may be a recognition that the inception happened in my mind. 3. Business model possibilities: Site can employ intention marketers, which can work with the people with ideas to sell license them on their behalf, which may also be a viable model. Note: Invention marketers, not patent lawyers or market research approaches. Invention marketers only get paid when the idea get licensed. 4. Pairing Geeks and Non-Geeks Service: Since, these you are talking about tech products, the site can pair non-developers with great ideas with great developers to get a prototype or product of the ground. The structure could be like revenue share on the product, this way people with idea doesn't have to invest a lot of money at the beginning, and they will get developers, who believe in the idea, might be a success. This has great potential IMO, when done right.

anujkk 15y ago
Thanks for your valuable feedback. 1. Idea is not a product. If the concept is patentable, patent it first to protect your assets. The whole concept of this tool will be to share and validate idea, or to just share the idea that you can't develop due to lack of skills, time but would like to use. 2. Again, one can't claim he owns an idea. A person not using this tool can come up with same idea. You earn money for execution of idea not the idea itself. The best that can be done is to have a HN like karma system. If developer of product wants, he may give credit to you but can't be forced to do so. 3. I'm planning to make a twitter like "follower" system where the followers can be categorized in developers,designers,funder,promoter etc. Idea owner can contact them to form a group to kickstart a project. It can be excellent for open source project ideas. 4. As mentioned in point 3, it can be done but negotiation can't be done just on basis of idea. It is out of scope of this tool. We can add a feature to keep ideas private and share it with limited people and make them agree to a Non-disclosure agreement first. Not advisable but can be done if required

anujkk 15y ago

Thanks for your valuable feedback. 1. Idea is not a product. If the concept is patentable, patent it first to protect your assets. The whole concept of this tool will be to share and validate idea, or to just share the idea that you can't develop due to lack of skills, time but would like to use. 2. Again, one can't claim he owns an idea. A person not using this tool can come up with same idea. You earn money for execution of idea not the idea itself. The best that can be done is to have a HN like karma system. If developer of product wants, he may give credit to you but can't be forced to do so. 3. I'm planning to make a twitter like "follower" system where the followers can be categorized in developers,designers,funder,promoter etc. Idea owner can contact them to form a group to kickstart a project. It can be excellent for open source project ideas. 4. As mentioned in point 3, it can be done but negotiation can't be done just on basis of idea. It is out of scope of this tool. We can add a feature to keep ideas private and share it with limited people and make them agree to a Non-disclosure agreement first. Not advisable but can be done if required