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Show HN: Brainstorm.gg – Get ideas out of your head fast

18 points by ajoshu 1y ago

How to get ideas for your next startup or side project. - Use this tool

rrdotspace 1y ago
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- ajoshu 1y ago
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chasing 1y ago
Evidence that ideas are a dime a dozen.
jonathaneunice 1y ago
Given the title, thought this was going to be another "write it down, get it out of your head" note-taking tool. Boy was I surprised when the first thing I typed in exploded into 10 more things to think about!
- ajoshu 1y ago
  Thanks for trying it out!
eamag 1y ago
A more focused way of generating ideas would be to have a multi-step approach, define the scope, collect information, generate ideas, clean up, expand/deduplicate, evaluate and rank, see a figure 4 from a review [1] I tried to do it based on ICLR conference, and rank via LLM-tournament, see result https://openreview-copilot.eamag.me/projects https://openreview-copilot.eamag.me/projects and process https://eamag.me/2025/Paper-To-Project https://eamag.me/2025/Paper-To-Project [1] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-Review-of-LLM-Assisted-Ideation-Li-Padilla/4e49b3efd70f479e8e45bd2e52a8310ca6b5005c/figure/4 https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-Review-of-LLM-Assist...
- ajoshu 1y ago
  Interesting, thanks
- apercu 1y ago
  You’ve described my manual consulting process :) Except when I have access to the right ears I force some measurable success metrics at the beginning to maintain scope stability after agreements.
tianqi 1y ago
Whenever I click "Brainstorm", I get an error saying "Failed to fetch ideas." Just wanted to report it in case it's helpful for the developer.
- ajoshu 1y ago
  Thanks for the feedback I'll look into those logs now! Sometimes specific questions can throw errors, which I am trying to improve.
  - tianqi 1y ago
    if specific question matters, my testing input is "How to bet on the NRL" which will cause the error.
prmph 1y ago
I'm told: > Enter a topic and get some ideas And when I enter something I get: "Error: Invalid topic"
- ajoshu 1y ago
  Hi, yes this happens very rarely, it's usually triggered when it thinks you are trying to escape out of the subject, try to limit your question length a little. - Thanks for giving it a try.
bhollan 1y ago
Love this! UX nit: I love that I can 'lock' good ideas in and ask for a fresh batch, but I want a way to say 'I reject this idea and don't want to see it again.' I kept getting the same 'wrong flavor' ideas even after 2-3 rounds.
- ajoshu 1y ago
  Interesting, I could prob store that locally then make it avoid re-generating Thanks for feedback
apercu 1y ago
It was fun, I’ll try it again when I have more time.
ajoshu 1y ago
This really exploded in traffic, thanks to everyone who tried it out and gave me feedback!

18 points by ajoshu 1y ago

How to get ideas for your next startup or side project. - Use this tool

rrdotspace 1y ago

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ajoshu 1y ago
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chasing 1y ago

Evidence that ideas are a dime a dozen.

jonathaneunice 1y ago

Given the title, thought this was going to be another "write it down, get it out of your head" note-taking tool. Boy was I surprised when the first thing I typed in exploded into 10 more things to think about!

ajoshu 1y ago
Thanks for trying it out!

eamag 1y ago

A more focused way of generating ideas would be to have a multi-step approach, define the scope, collect information, generate ideas, clean up, expand/deduplicate, evaluate and rank, see a figure 4 from a review [1] I tried to do it based on ICLR conference, and rank via LLM-tournament, see result https://openreview-copilot.eamag.me/projects https://openreview-copilot.eamag.me/projects and process https://eamag.me/2025/Paper-To-Project https://eamag.me/2025/Paper-To-Project [1] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-Review-of-LLM-Assisted-Ideation-Li-Padilla/4e49b3efd70f479e8e45bd2e52a8310ca6b5005c/figure/4 https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-Review-of-LLM-Assist...

ajoshu 1y ago
Interesting, thanks
apercu 1y ago
You’ve described my manual consulting process :) Except when I have access to the right ears I force some measurable success metrics at the beginning to maintain scope stability after agreements.

tianqi 1y ago

Whenever I click "Brainstorm", I get an error saying "Failed to fetch ideas." Just wanted to report it in case it's helpful for the developer.

ajoshu 1y ago
Thanks for the feedback I'll look into those logs now! Sometimes specific questions can throw errors, which I am trying to improve.
- tianqi 1y ago
  if specific question matters, my testing input is "How to bet on the NRL" which will cause the error.

prmph 1y ago

I'm told: > Enter a topic and get some ideas And when I enter something I get: "Error: Invalid topic"

ajoshu 1y ago
Hi, yes this happens very rarely, it's usually triggered when it thinks you are trying to escape out of the subject, try to limit your question length a little. - Thanks for giving it a try.

bhollan 1y ago

Love this! UX nit: I love that I can 'lock' good ideas in and ask for a fresh batch, but I want a way to say 'I reject this idea and don't want to see it again.' I kept getting the same 'wrong flavor' ideas even after 2-3 rounds.

ajoshu 1y ago
Interesting, I could prob store that locally then make it avoid re-generating Thanks for feedback

apercu 1y ago

It was fun, I’ll try it again when I have more time.

ajoshu 1y ago

This really exploded in traffic, thanks to everyone who tried it out and gave me feedback!