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The HN community could form an idea hub to host and protect ideas and monetize them as products to fund further ideas and products.

sparkie 13y ago
Interesting proposition, but do you have any idea how this could actually work? Where would funding come from initially? Would this be a for-profit or non-profit organization? How would we reach a consensus on anything, given the diversity of the community and other communities? How would we protect ideas, other than developing them? (since this can already be done by anyone, given the resources). I can't picture how we could create such system in a society built around the complete opposite, where the government backs corporations and fails to acknowledge the innovations of individuals, unless they pay for it. On a side note, I have many ideas that I've not released, not because I'm worried about someone stealing them, but because they're so far outside any mainstream convention that I'd be seen as a raving lunatic by many if I published them.
- pawelceranka 13y ago
  > [..] I'm [not] worried about someone stealing them, but because they're so far outside any mainstream convention that I'd be seen as a raving lunatic by many if I published them. Today? :) If they are really that crazy, this alone is the reason to release them into the wild... and you will feel better to. Ideas are only alive when they are free (as in released) ;p
- sigkill 13y ago
  >On a side note, I have many ideas that I've not released, not because I'm worried about someone stealing them, but because they're so far outside any mainstream convention that I'd be seen as a raving lunatic by many if I published them. This is a very good reason for why your idea should be put up for everyone to see. No, I don't mean that they should think you're a lunatic, but because of how awesome it would be if someone just picks up the tiniest bit and develops it.
  - rasur 13y ago
    To go further, a lot of the worlds good ideas (and their inventors/discoverers) have been thought of as lunatic at some point in their existence. It's almost a prerequisite! ;)
pawelceranka 13y ago
Concept of Idea Hub is pretty interesting. For me there is an angle that I haven't really seen explored i.e. a place to collaborate on (develop) high level concepts related to CS and CS applications. Very much alike to what you'have done in some points in your list. E.g. how to apply patterns/concepts from game design to other more traditional fields (your GP examples). I would love to see a place for collaboration centered around this approach--an idea incubator. I see it married to a platform leveraging experimentation around some of those ideas in lean startup style:)

sparkie 13y ago

Interesting proposition, but do you have any idea how this could actually work? Where would funding come from initially? Would this be a for-profit or non-profit organization? How would we reach a consensus on anything, given the diversity of the community and other communities? How would we protect ideas, other than developing them? (since this can already be done by anyone, given the resources). I can't picture how we could create such system in a society built around the complete opposite, where the government backs corporations and fails to acknowledge the innovations of individuals, unless they pay for it. On a side note, I have many ideas that I've not released, not because I'm worried about someone stealing them, but because they're so far outside any mainstream convention that I'd be seen as a raving lunatic by many if I published them.

pawelceranka 13y ago
> [..] I'm [not] worried about someone stealing them, but because they're so far outside any mainstream convention that I'd be seen as a raving lunatic by many if I published them. Today? :) If they are really that crazy, this alone is the reason to release them into the wild... and you will feel better to. Ideas are only alive when they are free (as in released) ;p
sigkill 13y ago
>On a side note, I have many ideas that I've not released, not because I'm worried about someone stealing them, but because they're so far outside any mainstream convention that I'd be seen as a raving lunatic by many if I published them. This is a very good reason for why your idea should be put up for everyone to see. No, I don't mean that they should think you're a lunatic, but because of how awesome it would be if someone just picks up the tiniest bit and develops it.
- rasur 13y ago
  To go further, a lot of the worlds good ideas (and their inventors/discoverers) have been thought of as lunatic at some point in their existence. It's almost a prerequisite! ;)

pawelceranka 13y ago

Concept of Idea Hub is pretty interesting. For me there is an angle that I haven't really seen explored i.e. a place to collaborate on (develop) high level concepts related to CS and CS applications. Very much alike to what you'have done in some points in your list. E.g. how to apply patterns/concepts from game design to other more traditional fields (your GP examples). I would love to see a place for collaboration centered around this approach--an idea incubator. I see it married to a platform leveraging experimentation around some of those ideas in lean startup style:)