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Show HN: A website to pitch your new startup ideas
- dexkiki 13y agoI have a couple of thoughts. 1. I don't have a twitter account. 2. I found it strange that the landing page didn't have any pitched ideas. To see an idea, I had to read the bottom text, and click on one of the countries. I didn't know those were links at first either. 3. Can ppl only pitch the title of their idea? Is there a description or something.
- detcherry 13y ago1. That's unfortunate. I will probably make the pitches accessible to not-logged in visitors in a near future. 2. You can access the ideas list here: http://www.gopitch.me/ideas/all http://www.gopitch.me/ideas/all 3. You can see a pitch here: http://www.gopitch.me/idea/4769741570834432 http://www.gopitch.me/idea/4769741570834432
- jliptzin 13y agoI also don't have a twitter account, and therefore can't post my ideas.
- ondiekijunior 13y agoWell too invasive. i have registered either way but yet to see the upside.
- vlokshin 13y agosounds a heck of a lot like LaunchSky.com :)
- detcherry 13y agoNice! I had never heard of this website... Indeed, very similar!
- cykho 13y agoCool sites - I like this idea of sharing concepts and getting feedbacks. One other larger one is producthunt.co. I'd be curious to see a full list if you happen to do some more competitive research!
- KiwiCoder 13y agoThere are many sites like this, here's a list I started: http://appworthy.co/alternatives http://appworthy.co/alternatives
- detcherry 13y agoThanks for the link!
- detcherry 13y agoThanks for your feedback and for the link. Nice website!
- IndieDevClub 13y agoThis is why I don't like posting my product ideas publicly for anyone who searches keywords. If I give away all the details of my implementation, I could be helping someone else who is doing "competitor research." If I don't give the details, then my idea sounds incomplete or just like everyone else's idea in that space. No matter how many articles I read on HN that ideas are worthless, I still feel reluctant posting my best ideas on a site like that. But I have a solution. It's called Indie Developer Club (see my profile for link). All the meetings are small with less than 10 people. You can show off a pre-release demo or talk about the specifics of your project, but you aren't posting it for the world to see. So you get some feedback but you don't have to worry about a competitor Googling you.
- mkaziz 13y agoAlas for all those twitter permissions it needs. Does it really need to read my tweets and post tweets for me? No thanks.
- detcherry 13y agoI ask for the Twitter connect just to make tweeting from the app easier. Tweets are like this one: https://twitter.com/spolu/status/443117201621413888 https://twitter.com/spolu/status/443117201621413888 Nothing spammy.
- Doctor_Fegg 13y agoWeb intents. You can prepopulate a message but the user has to click 'Tweet'. No need to ask for permissions.
- timdorr 13y agoMore specifically, he means using this button: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/tweet-button https://dev.twitter.com/docs/tweet-button
- lbr 13y agoI believe you. But I had the same reaction as mkaziz. And was about to comment on this. So I think the takeaway is that people are turned off by this - and you can convince people on HN that you won't abuse it. But not everywhere. And, with a million products attempting to take my time - anything that makes me hesitate (like that I have to allow you to "update my profile") is enough to turn me off.
- palakchokshi 13y agoOk then why not just ask to post tweets on my behalf? why ask for Update your profile., Read my tweets, etc. Not letting any unknown app update my profile. Sorry.
- detcherry 13y ago
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- beenpoor 13y agoSeriously, why would any one sign in without even knowing what it would contain. Put some samples atleast.
- detcherry 13y agoYou can view examples by clicking the links at the bottom of the page like here: http://www.gopitch.me/ideas/all http://www.gopitch.me/ideas/all
- lbr 13y agoI also hadn't realized that this was possible. Again, there are reasons for the things you are doing - I understand this. And there are ways to get around your block - but take the feedback. If one person says it here, it means that dozens had the same reaction and just decided not to voice it.
- kramerc 13y agoI didn't realize that "France", "USA", and "anywhere else" were links until you mentioned so right here. You should make these links distinctive from the rest of the text without the need of having to hover over them so that they are more obvious.
- KiwiCoder 13y agoI've been playing with a similar idea - http://appworthy.co http://appworthy.co One thing I've done on my site is abandon passwords. Authentication is by email (if you can receive a link you can "sign in" once with it - thereafter cookies). This avoids the need to ask for permission (to tweet for me? really?) up front. Users can start reading and posting without giving up anything but their email. This is not a new idea, but I think it works well to minimise barriers for potential contributors.
- detcherry 13y agoCongrats for appworthy. I didn't know about it. Your auth is pretty clever to minimize the barrier to entry. Yet, I thought Twitter could be an interesting channel for my app and decided to build my website on top of it.
- gkoberger 13y agoI don't mean to alarm you, but I think http://medium.com http://medium.com stole your design.
- detcherry 13y agoAhah good artists copy, great artists steal! :-) As a non-designer, I acknowledge that medium.com was a strong inspiration for my website
- Eleutheria 13y agoThumbs down for the twitter login. Recent ideas should be more prominent. Probably show the latest ten on the main page, then a link for more. Plus a huge (red) button to pitch a new idea in the front page.
- megablast 13y agoWhy does a website need to do this? Read Tweets from your timeline. See who you follow, and follow new people. Update your profile. Post Tweets for you. I just want to view and list projects.
- jobnobber 13y agoI like the Twitter login. Just a data point.
- sciguy77 13y agoI have no idea why this is required. Why add friction to posting? Email + password + confirm password seems like the best idea, with Twitter as a separate option.
- jeffbr13 13y agoI didn't terribly mind having to use Twitter for signup. As soon as you asked for my email AS WELL, I could no longer be bothered to click through - the only value of 3rd-party login is not having to give you my email address.
- camus2 13y agoquit the twitter login.
- Frozenlock 13y agoAgreed. I don't have Twitter nor Facebook. Stop making those the only way to log in.
- tigerman 13y agoCan you tell me where and how did you host your site? I really want to host one but cannot find any cheap way
- detcherry 13y agoBasically: Google App Engine
- nemasu 13y agoMy 2 cents: I've thought about doing this exact thing before...then I realized it's like giving other people free ideas. Isn't this just the perfect place for others to steal your stuff? What're you gonna do if that happens? I would never post a good idea publicly, just asking for competition you probably can't afford to have.
- bdcravens 13y agoThis point has been discussed into the ground before, but in general, ideas mean nothing. I've had many million dollar ideas: I know because I've seen them in the marketplace. No execution, no value. Also, most people aren't the precious little butterfly they think they are: someone has had their idea before.