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I would disagree about needing incentives/rewards to get people voting. You are the counterargument to your own comment. You just commented on this idea here on

I would disagree about needing incentives/rewards to get people voting. You are the counterargument to your own comment. You just commented on this idea here on HN, for free, with no incentive and no reward. People like us often love to see new ideas, and comment on them and join in a discussion with the founders. "This is great", "I don't think this will work", "this would be better if...", "what are you planning to do about..." LaunchSky is "Hacker News for Ideas Not News" I've dreamed of having something like this before, and I would love to see LaunchSky do it. I think I would go there often enough to see other people's ideas and provide my own. I think this is best aimed at the same people that like Hacker News, NOT the general Facebook population.

vlokshin 14y ago
Thanks! I'd like to think the same, but from a numbers standpoint -- we're probably going to need a fairly clear incentive for the "reviewer/early adopter" side. It's going to be a balance of quality vs. volume of reviewers, but these will all be some fun challenges to figure out and tackle. edit: Your comment (after re-reading) made my day.
- caleywoods 14y ago
  I commented below regarding this issue of voting for free and it not costing them anything. I feel like, after reading your comments parent and your reply that I'm replying to, I feel that it might be beneficial to have each user on the site have a weight calculated from various criteria (that probably doesn't exist yet). Firstly let's assume that submitted ideas have a lifecycle, something like this: Inception (posting to the site) Green-lit (threshold of submitters required Yes votes) Lack of Interest (threshold not met) Released (product launch) Let's say a project reaches Release (from our above defined lifecycle), all users who voted "Yes, I would use this" for the project might need to verify they've used the app or risk having their weight ratio degraded (thus making future "Yes, I would use this" votes count for less). If the project they 'backed' fails then there is no change to the weight. This solves one side of the problem for idea submitters. They should be able to view something like an "Interest Index" which takes into account the weight of users who have stated they would use it. Eventually if I clicked "Yes, I'd use this" on 40 projects and 20 of them reached release and yet I never followed through with using them, my vote might not count for squat any longer. Just a thought.
  - vlokshin 14y ago
    I definitely like the idea/approach. It may complicate the initial product, but we could always keep this less exposed to end users (or at least the voters/reviewers). Thanks for the awesome feedback / insight / thought -- I really appreciate you taking the time to think though it for us!
justjimmy 14y ago
Of couse there is an incentive for me to comment here on HN. 1. It's a community, there's give & take. Who knows one day I may need HN's help. I want to be treated the same way others treat me - golden rule. 2. This place is full of smart people. I'd listen carefully to what everyone has to say. If it's just mass voting from randoms, it'll get nowhere. Hence my 4th point in the original comment. 3. Being part of the community, actively, builds connects and networks. If LaunchSky is going to be community oriented, I think that'd be a great avenue to explore. So I'd disagree about how there's no incentive or reward for me to comment here.

vlokshin 14y ago

Thanks! I'd like to think the same, but from a numbers standpoint -- we're probably going to need a fairly clear incentive for the "reviewer/early adopter" side. It's going to be a balance of quality vs. volume of reviewers, but these will all be some fun challenges to figure out and tackle. edit: Your comment (after re-reading) made my day.

caleywoods 14y ago
I commented below regarding this issue of voting for free and it not costing them anything. I feel like, after reading your comments parent and your reply that I'm replying to, I feel that it might be beneficial to have each user on the site have a weight calculated from various criteria (that probably doesn't exist yet). Firstly let's assume that submitted ideas have a lifecycle, something like this: Inception (posting to the site) Green-lit (threshold of submitters required Yes votes) Lack of Interest (threshold not met) Released (product launch) Let's say a project reaches Release (from our above defined lifecycle), all users who voted "Yes, I would use this" for the project might need to verify they've used the app or risk having their weight ratio degraded (thus making future "Yes, I would use this" votes count for less). If the project they 'backed' fails then there is no change to the weight. This solves one side of the problem for idea submitters. They should be able to view something like an "Interest Index" which takes into account the weight of users who have stated they would use it. Eventually if I clicked "Yes, I'd use this" on 40 projects and 20 of them reached release and yet I never followed through with using them, my vote might not count for squat any longer. Just a thought.
- vlokshin 14y ago
  I definitely like the idea/approach. It may complicate the initial product, but we could always keep this less exposed to end users (or at least the voters/reviewers). Thanks for the awesome feedback / insight / thought -- I really appreciate you taking the time to think though it for us!

justjimmy 14y ago

Of couse there is an incentive for me to comment here on HN. 1. It's a community, there's give & take. Who knows one day I may need HN's help. I want to be treated the same way others treat me - golden rule. 2. This place is full of smart people. I'd listen carefully to what everyone has to say. If it's just mass voting from randoms, it'll get nowhere. Hence my 4th point in the original comment. 3. Being part of the community, actively, builds connects and networks. If LaunchSky is going to be community oriented, I think that'd be a great avenue to explore. So I'd disagree about how there's no incentive or reward for me to comment here.