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Show HN: Place to support and validate early startup ideas

52 points by leobg 4y ago

I made this for people like myself who keep a list of ideas for apps / startups. I also made it for people who are curious to see what projects others have "in their drawer"... and who may want to have a say in which idea should see the light of day. https://ideas.dynamate.io/ https://ideas.dynamate.io/ The site allows creators to anonymously showcase their idea: Title. Description text. Maybe some mockups... I've tried to make it so that it's quick and easy to just dump an idea in there that's been sitting on some list of yours for months - and hopefully get some feedback on it. If someone else on the site sees your idea and likes it, they have various choices of showing support: They can upvote. They can subscribe to progress updates. They can tell you why they want it (there's a questionaire that is loosely based on "The Mom Test"). And they can even send you money as encouragement. As the owner of an idea, you can see how many unique upvotes, subscriptions, etc. your idea has received. You get a nice table of all the ideas you have on the site, sorted by feedback score. Also, in the case of non-anonymous subscriptions or donations, you can get in touch with early supporters. Publicly, though, neither upvotes nor any other form of support for an idea are shown. This is so you cannot go to the site and just grab the most popular ideas from there. And also so that each idea can get the same amount of exposure and attention. There are many great books out there on validating startup ideas. And my site won't be a replacement for those. Rather, it's designed as a low hanging fruit to get your idea out there. I hope some of you find it useful. Feel free to test it out on the ideas I've posted on there. And perhaps share some of your own! Also curious to hear your feedback both on the idea itself and the execution so far. The site is still early beta. Please let me know if you run into any bugs. Also, and ideas how I can make it better would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

spking 4y ago
This was executed nicely. The ability to include screenshots, a video or link is especially helpful to communicate a concept. One idea that could be cool would be some kind of forced ranking of features/functionality that idea posters could include so that interested users could indicate what would be most important to them. That would take it beyond high-level elevator pitch and into feature-product fit insights.
- leobg 4y ago
  Thanks for the kind words. Let me see if I understand your suggestion correctly. You want users to be able to not only support the idea as it is, but to also be able so suggestion additional features, or to indicate what parts of the idea are most important to them. Right now, a user who wants to suggest specific features would select "share my contact info with the owner", or they'd fill out the "use case questionaire". In both cases, you as the owner of the idea would be able to reach out to them (an d they'd have indicated that they'd actually want you to do so). Though, as it is now, you'd be doing that outside of the platform then (say, through email, Zoom, or a Telegram group perhaps).
junofan 4y ago
Not useful to post ideas where your customers aren’t tbh
- niemal_dev 4y ago
  While it is nice to have a platform to explore ideas and talk about them, your point is very accurate.
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- leobg 4y ago
  I agree. However, when you post your idea, you also get a link that you can share elsewhere. In this case, you're essentially using the site as a quick and easy hosting service for your idea. And you get to piggyback on the built-in options for visitors to leave feedback (both anonymous and personal). If you have several ideas, and one of them is getting significantly better results, you'll have a lot more motivation to invest the time, energy and money to set up a more in-depth test for that idea.
jstanley 4y ago
I'm trying to sign up for an account, but when I click "create account" it just tells me "This field is required" next to each field, even though I filled in all 3 fields. EDIT: It's worked now. I think it didn't like "jstanley" as a username, but has accepted "James Stanley". Maybe it requires a space in the username field??? That's an... unusual choice. A few more things: Once I'd submitted an idea I got a page saying "Thank you for your submission", and it gave me a URL to copy to share with others, but the URL was "http://127.0.0.1:5500/item?id=25 http://127.0.0.1:5500/item?id=25" - this probably wants fixing on the public version. Also it says my idea was submitted "2 days ago" even though it was only in the last few minutes (maybe the server's clock is wrong?) The "following" page leads to "Internal Server Error". This site is a really interesting idea, nice work. I like that the ideas are shown anonymously. I clicked to provide contact details to my own idea, but I can't find anywhere that I actually access the contact details that have been provided to the idea. Does this exist yet?
- davnicwil 4y ago
  > Maybe it requires a space in the username field I was curious and thought it may be more likely that the requirement is the first letter must be a capital letter. Tried out some combinations and that is the case (pun intended :-) Not sure how I spotted this as being the likely thing, just intuition I guess from doing this kind of thing for long enough. For the OP, my guess at the cause would be a bad regex on username, if it's not intended. Also for the OP, I signed up with a couple of usernames starting dw with matching emails, if you want to delete those accounts :-).
  - leobg 4y ago
    Thank you for the detective work! I'll look into this. This is not intended behavior at all. In fact, my own username on the platform is leobg - so, no space, no caps. Whatever it is, I'll fix it! Also, thanks for adding a marker to your test domains. That was really thoughtful of you.
  - leobg 4y ago
    Fixed the username issue.
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cdiamand 4y ago
Hey! This looks a lot like my old project https://oppslist.com https://oppslist.com - open them side by side ;) (which I no longer maintain, and yes I know it throws a warning when you open it) Best of luck with the platform! It's an interesting space, but a challenging one.
- leobg 4y ago
  Oh wow. Even the same color! This is hilarious! :) Boy. You got lots of ideas on there. And you've got a slightly different angle, if I see it correctly. It's actually business owners who are posting things they'd like to get done. I imagine that it's hard to get businesses to tell you what they need. I imagine that they often not only understand the problem they have, or even the fact that they have one. Much less how it could be solved. Was that the challenge that you faced, and which caused you to give up on the project? It looks really well done. You must have spent many weeks on this!
Wronnay 4y ago
I miss features for commenting and downvoting. There are a lot of ideas on there currently which already exist. Like Companies data API, Daisy Disk for personal finance and Email parser with categorization and actions
- senecaso 4y ago
  ya, a way to submit feedback/comments might be a good idea. I just submitted an idea, and immediately was wondering how I would be able to engage with the people who voted (or didnt)
  - leobg 4y ago
    First, thank you for trying it out and for submitting an idea. That's super cool. With regards to engaging with users: In the current design, the first two levels of interest that a user may show on your idea do not include sharing any contact information. Namely upvoting an idea, and signing up for updates. A user has to support your idea on level 3 ("share contact info with the project owner") or level 4 ("share your use case") in order for you to actually get their contact info. For now, if you go to your "ideas" section, you'll already see the count of each level of support your idea got (upvoted, subscribed to updates, shared contact info, filled out questionaire). The ability to actually send out an update to the users that requested it is actually still missing. Same goes for accessing the contact info of the users who shared it with you, and for accessing the info they shared with you when they filled out the questionaire. I didn't know if this Show HN was going to go anywhere. But I'm going to add these features. These contacts are yours. And they have entrusted me with forwarding their request to you.
    - senecaso 4y ago
      I was thinking more along the lines of a public dialog, where a user could post a comment like "This is a great idea! However, if you could make it do X and Y, it would be even better!" Getting access to people's contact information would be useful at a later point in the process, but early on I think immediate feedback would be the most beneficial. Even something along the lines of a HN thread like this one would be enough engagement at first. In fact, perhaps that is even sufficient :)
anon115 4y ago
Is this the right interface for this idea?
huhtenberg 4y ago
I suspect it's not supposed to look like this - https://i.imgur.com/L4RJ5Ag.png https://i.imgur.com/L4RJ5Ag.png This is in Firefox on Windows.
- leobg 4y ago
  You're right. Looks like the header is missing. And the "thumbs up" icon is way too big. I'll look into it tomorrow. Thanks for sharing this bug, really appreciated!
- leobg 4y ago
  Layout is fixed now. Thanks!
pea 4y ago
Nice work on a cool side project! Just my 2c, but I would find this more useful as a place to validate and support early pain-points, as opposed to solutions. Validating that a genuine burning pain exists for a small group of people - with access to early adopters - would be really helpful, and I think would provide a nice play to do discovery. Going solution-first puts the cart before the horse imo.
- leobg 4y ago
  Ok. Wow. That's interesting. I never thought about it from this angle. Can you give an example? I mean a pain point that you would like to validate, or would have liked to in the past, if such a tool had existed?
  - pea 4y ago
    I think many compelling companies come from rigorously testing lots of possible solutions for a problem that the founders understand deeply. You might experiment and fail with 10 different ways to solve that problem, before one of them sticks. But the important thing for building the right solution is understanding the context, situation, nature of the pain-point, implications of it, and why the world would be better served if it was solved. The benefit of solving your own painpoint is that you often understand these things instinctively, but it's helpful to talk to other people to understand how it is different for them. From there, the first solutions should be to validate this -- maybe the first version is a Google form or a manual inbox (i.e. "What can we test in 1 week vs. 1 year?"). For an example from me, I previously had a start-up where we provided version control for PowerPoint documents. Our first iteration was way too complicated and we went in solution-first. We built all kinds of shit people didn't need, like slide-by-slide version control, git integration, etc. On your current site, I could ask people if they want a plugin into PowerPoint which gives slide-by-slide version control using git, and get a bunch of feedback on that specific solution. Instead, it would be more helpful to step back and try and validate that sharing PowerPoint documents over email leads to versioning problems. From there, maybe I could dig deeper into specific use-cases, verticals, and understand a wider problem space, before talking about how people need the problem to be solved. I think the learnings would be 100x more useful than getting some specific feedback on my myopic solution. Similarly, I have found that users often love talking about their problems more than they love giving feedback on individual solutions.
hkgjjgjfjfjfjf 4y ago
mgl 4y ago
This looks really great but eventually there is one place to validate your startup which is The Market. No encouraging words from strangers will replace a candid critical feedback from someone who is in position to consider buying your product. My 2c: Stop sharing, start selling.
- tammer2022 4y ago
  Having built a successful web service I know two things: One, there is a long journey from idea to having something ready to test in the marketplace. This sort of site is great for that phase. Second: Those of us who have been through the roller coaster of entrepreneurship know how "encouraging words from strangers" are often just the tonic you need psychologically to keep going because in the real world the "candid feedback" can often sap your morale. Love the thing. I'll use it for real.
  - leobg 4y ago
    Thanks for the kind words! Hadn't expected this at all on HN. I generally also agree that the real test is the marketplace, i.e. real customers voting with their wallets. But of course you're right: Seeing that someone actually cares is sometimes worth more. Or rather, is what's needed to get to the stage where you actually dare to launch something on the actual marketplace. My own use case is that I have a list of 100+ ideas. There are a few I have some degree of conviction in. Enough at least to put together an MVP that I can put to the test. But all the others? I'll never find out. For all I know, there could be one idea among them that wants to grow big, and that has a huge marketplace. But I cannot see that. And on my list, it would simply fade away from me. So the idea of having a space where I can just dump such ideas and have a chance of someone reaching out is attractive to me. That's what I'm hoping to do with this site. It also isn't about giving creators false hope. Upvotes exist on the site because they're easy and non-committal for the consumer. But they count very little. On the other side of the spectrum, a consumer can fill out a questionaire and tell you exactly why they think they need your thing, what problems they are hoping to solve with it, how they are currently dealing with that problem, etc.. While it is encouraging if someone takes the time to write all of this down for you, it's also valuable information if you're making that thing. I would have also loved to implement a thing where consumers can buy shares in your idea right now (or rather, in you implementing it). Something like, they pay you $10 now, and will be eligible as beta testers once you build it. But there seems to be no off-the-shelf solution for user-to-user payments. So for now, there's just an option to send money to the owner of an idea via an Amazon gift card. The big challenge, of course, is going to be attracting enough "consumers" to the site - meaning people who go there to shop for potential solutions to problems they might have, or for ideas they want to see become real.
hlandau 4y ago
Nice site. I like the design. The speed of page loads is particularly noticeable to me; what does the stack look like? There's no visible border on the username/password fields on the login page for me, you might want to fix that.
- leobg 4y ago
  Yeah, I'll fix those borders. Thanks for the compliments. Pretty much my first time making a proper app, actually. I stuck close the the Hacker News design. I used Flask and HTMX.
- leobg 4y ago
  Fixed the borders
nicofo 4y ago
Hello! I have been working on something similar, in RoR, I have already implemented social logins, comments, gallery, rating and other things to help inventors reach people to help them. Greetings!
PookMook 4y ago
Great Job, I ran a somewhat related site https://makeithappen.dev/ https://makeithappen.dev/ (no longer maintained, this was a hack weekend project build on stream a few years ago) but there's some cross functionality in there. Really like your solution, this is rekindling that old makeithappen flame ahah. Best of luck and keep going! Cheers
- leobg 4y ago
  I like your project. And your domain name. Very similar, indeed. Are these real suggestions that are posted on the site? Like from the photographer wanting a solution to quickly share photos right from his DSLR? Because that's great stuff. Actual users describing problems they need solved. I would imagine that, most of the time, people don't even realize that there is a better way. Hence they're often not actively hunting for a solution, or able to even just describe how a potential solution could look like. If you, during a weekend, got several strangers to post such detailed requirements, I'd love to hear how you did it.
  - PookMook 4y ago
    I posted a few of them to show the flow and not be an empty website and then it was people on the stream going in with their ideas. I was looking into parsing reddit like r/SomebodyMakeThis, twitter and keep on doing some streams picking stuff from the ideas in there to promote its use but you know life happened and it got put on the side lines. The hardest criticism I received is "why would I give my idea to someone else, they may make millions out of it" which is not a big problem in my book, as I have way more ideas and problems than time to build solutions for them, but this might be the biggest pushback I received. The plan was to let ideas float around, let people discuss and gather around, maybe mark that they would be willing to pay for a solution. When an entrepreneur or company comes along and want to tackle the problem, we can link people with the problem with the people building the solution, which in my experience was the hardest part of starting a project.
dmundhra 4y ago
I tried submitting an idea. The permalink is being set to 127.0.0.1
- leobg 4y ago
  Yeah that’s a bug. I’ll fix it when I get to my computer. For now, you can replace the 127.0.01:5500 part with ideas.dynamate.io. Thanks for using it and posting an idea!
- leobg 4y ago
  Fixed
qwerty456127 4y ago
Interesting but doesn't work - always throws Internal Server Error.

52 points by leobg 4y ago

spking 4y ago

This was executed nicely. The ability to include screenshots, a video or link is especially helpful to communicate a concept. One idea that could be cool would be some kind of forced ranking of features/functionality that idea posters could include so that interested users could indicate what would be most important to them. That would take it beyond high-level elevator pitch and into feature-product fit insights.

leobg 4y ago
Thanks for the kind words. Let me see if I understand your suggestion correctly. You want users to be able to not only support the idea as it is, but to also be able so suggestion additional features, or to indicate what parts of the idea are most important to them. Right now, a user who wants to suggest specific features would select "share my contact info with the owner", or they'd fill out the "use case questionaire". In both cases, you as the owner of the idea would be able to reach out to them (an d they'd have indicated that they'd actually want you to do so). Though, as it is now, you'd be doing that outside of the platform then (say, through email, Zoom, or a Telegram group perhaps).

junofan 4y ago

Not useful to post ideas where your customers aren’t tbh

niemal_dev 4y ago
While it is nice to have a platform to explore ideas and talk about them, your point is very accurate.
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leobg 4y ago
I agree. However, when you post your idea, you also get a link that you can share elsewhere. In this case, you're essentially using the site as a quick and easy hosting service for your idea. And you get to piggyback on the built-in options for visitors to leave feedback (both anonymous and personal). If you have several ideas, and one of them is getting significantly better results, you'll have a lot more motivation to invest the time, energy and money to set up a more in-depth test for that idea.

jstanley 4y ago

I'm trying to sign up for an account, but when I click "create account" it just tells me "This field is required" next to each field, even though I filled in all 3 fields. EDIT: It's worked now. I think it didn't like "jstanley" as a username, but has accepted "James Stanley". Maybe it requires a space in the username field??? That's an... unusual choice. A few more things: Once I'd submitted an idea I got a page saying "Thank you for your submission", and it gave me a URL to copy to share with others, but the URL was "http://127.0.0.1:5500/item?id=25 http://127.0.0.1:5500/item?id=25" - this probably wants fixing on the public version. Also it says my idea was submitted "2 days ago" even though it was only in the last few minutes (maybe the server's clock is wrong?) The "following" page leads to "Internal Server Error". This site is a really interesting idea, nice work. I like that the ideas are shown anonymously. I clicked to provide contact details to my own idea, but I can't find anywhere that I actually access the contact details that have been provided to the idea. Does this exist yet?

davnicwil 4y ago
> Maybe it requires a space in the username field I was curious and thought it may be more likely that the requirement is the first letter must be a capital letter. Tried out some combinations and that is the case (pun intended :-) Not sure how I spotted this as being the likely thing, just intuition I guess from doing this kind of thing for long enough. For the OP, my guess at the cause would be a bad regex on username, if it's not intended. Also for the OP, I signed up with a couple of usernames starting dw with matching emails, if you want to delete those accounts :-).
- leobg 4y ago
  Thank you for the detective work! I'll look into this. This is not intended behavior at all. In fact, my own username on the platform is leobg - so, no space, no caps. Whatever it is, I'll fix it! Also, thanks for adding a marker to your test domains. That was really thoughtful of you.
- leobg 4y ago
  Fixed the username issue.

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cdiamand 4y ago

Hey! This looks a lot like my old project https://oppslist.com https://oppslist.com - open them side by side ;) (which I no longer maintain, and yes I know it throws a warning when you open it) Best of luck with the platform! It's an interesting space, but a challenging one.

leobg 4y ago
Oh wow. Even the same color! This is hilarious! :) Boy. You got lots of ideas on there. And you've got a slightly different angle, if I see it correctly. It's actually business owners who are posting things they'd like to get done. I imagine that it's hard to get businesses to tell you what they need. I imagine that they often not only understand the problem they have, or even the fact that they have one. Much less how it could be solved. Was that the challenge that you faced, and which caused you to give up on the project? It looks really well done. You must have spent many weeks on this!

Wronnay 4y ago

I miss features for commenting and downvoting. There are a lot of ideas on there currently which already exist. Like Companies data API, Daisy Disk for personal finance and Email parser with categorization and actions

senecaso 4y ago
ya, a way to submit feedback/comments might be a good idea. I just submitted an idea, and immediately was wondering how I would be able to engage with the people who voted (or didnt)
- leobg 4y ago
  First, thank you for trying it out and for submitting an idea. That's super cool. With regards to engaging with users: In the current design, the first two levels of interest that a user may show on your idea do not include sharing any contact information. Namely upvoting an idea, and signing up for updates. A user has to support your idea on level 3 ("share contact info with the project owner") or level 4 ("share your use case") in order for you to actually get their contact info. For now, if you go to your "ideas" section, you'll already see the count of each level of support your idea got (upvoted, subscribed to updates, shared contact info, filled out questionaire). The ability to actually send out an update to the users that requested it is actually still missing. Same goes for accessing the contact info of the users who shared it with you, and for accessing the info they shared with you when they filled out the questionaire. I didn't know if this Show HN was going to go anywhere. But I'm going to add these features. These contacts are yours. And they have entrusted me with forwarding their request to you.
  - senecaso 4y ago
    I was thinking more along the lines of a public dialog, where a user could post a comment like "This is a great idea! However, if you could make it do X and Y, it would be even better!" Getting access to people's contact information would be useful at a later point in the process, but early on I think immediate feedback would be the most beneficial. Even something along the lines of a HN thread like this one would be enough engagement at first. In fact, perhaps that is even sufficient :)

anon115 4y ago

Is this the right interface for this idea?

huhtenberg 4y ago

I suspect it's not supposed to look like this - https://i.imgur.com/L4RJ5Ag.png https://i.imgur.com/L4RJ5Ag.png This is in Firefox on Windows.

leobg 4y ago
You're right. Looks like the header is missing. And the "thumbs up" icon is way too big. I'll look into it tomorrow. Thanks for sharing this bug, really appreciated!
leobg 4y ago
Layout is fixed now. Thanks!

pea 4y ago

Nice work on a cool side project! Just my 2c, but I would find this more useful as a place to validate and support early pain-points, as opposed to solutions. Validating that a genuine burning pain exists for a small group of people - with access to early adopters - would be really helpful, and I think would provide a nice play to do discovery. Going solution-first puts the cart before the horse imo.

leobg 4y ago
Ok. Wow. That's interesting. I never thought about it from this angle. Can you give an example? I mean a pain point that you would like to validate, or would have liked to in the past, if such a tool had existed?
- pea 4y ago
  I think many compelling companies come from rigorously testing lots of possible solutions for a problem that the founders understand deeply. You might experiment and fail with 10 different ways to solve that problem, before one of them sticks. But the important thing for building the right solution is understanding the context, situation, nature of the pain-point, implications of it, and why the world would be better served if it was solved. The benefit of solving your own painpoint is that you often understand these things instinctively, but it's helpful to talk to other people to understand how it is different for them. From there, the first solutions should be to validate this -- maybe the first version is a Google form or a manual inbox (i.e. "What can we test in 1 week vs. 1 year?"). For an example from me, I previously had a start-up where we provided version control for PowerPoint documents. Our first iteration was way too complicated and we went in solution-first. We built all kinds of shit people didn't need, like slide-by-slide version control, git integration, etc. On your current site, I could ask people if they want a plugin into PowerPoint which gives slide-by-slide version control using git, and get a bunch of feedback on that specific solution. Instead, it would be more helpful to step back and try and validate that sharing PowerPoint documents over email leads to versioning problems. From there, maybe I could dig deeper into specific use-cases, verticals, and understand a wider problem space, before talking about how people need the problem to be solved. I think the learnings would be 100x more useful than getting some specific feedback on my myopic solution. Similarly, I have found that users often love talking about their problems more than they love giving feedback on individual solutions.

hkgjjgjfjfjfjf 4y ago

mgl 4y ago

This looks really great but eventually there is one place to validate your startup which is The Market. No encouraging words from strangers will replace a candid critical feedback from someone who is in position to consider buying your product. My 2c: Stop sharing, start selling.

tammer2022 4y ago
Having built a successful web service I know two things: One, there is a long journey from idea to having something ready to test in the marketplace. This sort of site is great for that phase. Second: Those of us who have been through the roller coaster of entrepreneurship know how "encouraging words from strangers" are often just the tonic you need psychologically to keep going because in the real world the "candid feedback" can often sap your morale. Love the thing. I'll use it for real.
- leobg 4y ago
  Thanks for the kind words! Hadn't expected this at all on HN. I generally also agree that the real test is the marketplace, i.e. real customers voting with their wallets. But of course you're right: Seeing that someone actually cares is sometimes worth more. Or rather, is what's needed to get to the stage where you actually dare to launch something on the actual marketplace. My own use case is that I have a list of 100+ ideas. There are a few I have some degree of conviction in. Enough at least to put together an MVP that I can put to the test. But all the others? I'll never find out. For all I know, there could be one idea among them that wants to grow big, and that has a huge marketplace. But I cannot see that. And on my list, it would simply fade away from me. So the idea of having a space where I can just dump such ideas and have a chance of someone reaching out is attractive to me. That's what I'm hoping to do with this site. It also isn't about giving creators false hope. Upvotes exist on the site because they're easy and non-committal for the consumer. But they count very little. On the other side of the spectrum, a consumer can fill out a questionaire and tell you exactly why they think they need your thing, what problems they are hoping to solve with it, how they are currently dealing with that problem, etc.. While it is encouraging if someone takes the time to write all of this down for you, it's also valuable information if you're making that thing. I would have also loved to implement a thing where consumers can buy shares in your idea right now (or rather, in you implementing it). Something like, they pay you $10 now, and will be eligible as beta testers once you build it. But there seems to be no off-the-shelf solution for user-to-user payments. So for now, there's just an option to send money to the owner of an idea via an Amazon gift card. The big challenge, of course, is going to be attracting enough "consumers" to the site - meaning people who go there to shop for potential solutions to problems they might have, or for ideas they want to see become real.

hlandau 4y ago

Nice site. I like the design. The speed of page loads is particularly noticeable to me; what does the stack look like? There's no visible border on the username/password fields on the login page for me, you might want to fix that.

leobg 4y ago
Yeah, I'll fix those borders. Thanks for the compliments. Pretty much my first time making a proper app, actually. I stuck close the the Hacker News design. I used Flask and HTMX.
leobg 4y ago
Fixed the borders

nicofo 4y ago

Hello! I have been working on something similar, in RoR, I have already implemented social logins, comments, gallery, rating and other things to help inventors reach people to help them. Greetings!

PookMook 4y ago

Great Job, I ran a somewhat related site https://makeithappen.dev/ https://makeithappen.dev/ (no longer maintained, this was a hack weekend project build on stream a few years ago) but there's some cross functionality in there. Really like your solution, this is rekindling that old makeithappen flame ahah. Best of luck and keep going! Cheers

leobg 4y ago
I like your project. And your domain name. Very similar, indeed. Are these real suggestions that are posted on the site? Like from the photographer wanting a solution to quickly share photos right from his DSLR? Because that's great stuff. Actual users describing problems they need solved. I would imagine that, most of the time, people don't even realize that there is a better way. Hence they're often not actively hunting for a solution, or able to even just describe how a potential solution could look like. If you, during a weekend, got several strangers to post such detailed requirements, I'd love to hear how you did it.
- PookMook 4y ago
  I posted a few of them to show the flow and not be an empty website and then it was people on the stream going in with their ideas. I was looking into parsing reddit like r/SomebodyMakeThis, twitter and keep on doing some streams picking stuff from the ideas in there to promote its use but you know life happened and it got put on the side lines. The hardest criticism I received is "why would I give my idea to someone else, they may make millions out of it" which is not a big problem in my book, as I have way more ideas and problems than time to build solutions for them, but this might be the biggest pushback I received. The plan was to let ideas float around, let people discuss and gather around, maybe mark that they would be willing to pay for a solution. When an entrepreneur or company comes along and want to tackle the problem, we can link people with the problem with the people building the solution, which in my experience was the hardest part of starting a project.

dmundhra 4y ago

I tried submitting an idea. The permalink is being set to 127.0.0.1

leobg 4y ago
Yeah that’s a bug. I’ll fix it when I get to my computer. For now, you can replace the 127.0.01:5500 part with ideas.dynamate.io. Thanks for using it and posting an idea!
leobg 4y ago
Fixed

qwerty456127 4y ago

Interesting but doesn't work - always throws Internal Server Error.