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How about an website that collects/harvests good startup ideas? Like what we're doing on this HN page?

run4yourlives 17y ago
This post comes up regularly on HN, and a comment like yours is pretty much guaranteed to accompany it. I wonder why such a site has yet to exist?
- harpastum 17y ago
  Some of the ideas are more whimsical than others, but the halfbakery [1] has existed for quite a while. "The Halfbakery is a communal database of original, fictitious inventions, edited by its users. It was created by people who like to speculate, both as a form of satire and as a form of creative expression." [1]http://www.halfbakery.com/ http://www.halfbakery.com/
  - run4yourlives 17y ago
    The issue with that site is that it lives up to it's name. I think you'd need to launch any real idea site from a forum like HN. It's the people submitting and evaluating the idea that will make it work.
- jeromec 17y ago
  What if we made a site where ideas could be posted, along with the likely resources required (programmers, marketers etc.) and interested parties could sign on to them. An idea which garnered a full group could spin off into a project/company. The site wouldn't make money but would be valuable for the participants, and would be fitting as a derivative of YC, which finds companies from the very beginning.
  - robotrout 17y ago
    I like that. I'd amend it as follows. 1) You apply for the position you want. If a project needs a JS guy, and you're a JS guy, you apply for that position. 2) To keep people from applying for every single JS position available, there is a $100, sign on fee. This fee is kept in escrow, and if you are not selected as the JS guy, it's returned to you. Until a decision is made, it's out of your account, so you can't apply to 100 projects at once. 3) Once your application is accepted, and you become the JS guy, you lose your $100 permanently, and are possibly asked for more money as well. At completion of this transaction, you are now "one of the founders". You now review resumes of other applicants, and vote on them. Applicant with the most votes becomes "the mechanical engineer guy", for example, and he buys in to the company, and helps vote for the next guys, and so on.
- ErrantX 17y ago
  I've been working on it in my spare time for the last couple of weeks. The code is there, Im just not sharing it with you yet :D (some cleaning up to do and a bit of fine tuning)
  - stevejohnson 17y ago
    I am working on the exact same thing and have a cool domain to go with it. Sounds like you are much farther along than I am - would you like to talk about combining our resources/ideas? Steve.Johnson.Public@gmail.com
jpwagner 17y ago
http://highdeas.com/ http://highdeas.com/
olefoo 17y ago
http://www.halfbakery.com/ http://www.halfbakery.com/ -- actually it just collects ideas, but it's very entertaining. And who knows some of them might be good.
comb 17y ago
http://opensourcefunding.qrimp.com http://opensourcefunding.qrimp.com

This post comes up regularly on HN, and a comment like yours is pretty much guaranteed to accompany it. I wonder why such a site has yet to exist?

harpastum 17y ago
Some of the ideas are more whimsical than others, but the halfbakery [1] has existed for quite a while. "The Halfbakery is a communal database of original, fictitious inventions, edited by its users. It was created by people who like to speculate, both as a form of satire and as a form of creative expression." [1]http://www.halfbakery.com/ http://www.halfbakery.com/
- run4yourlives 17y ago
  The issue with that site is that it lives up to it's name. I think you'd need to launch any real idea site from a forum like HN. It's the people submitting and evaluating the idea that will make it work.
jeromec 17y ago
What if we made a site where ideas could be posted, along with the likely resources required (programmers, marketers etc.) and interested parties could sign on to them. An idea which garnered a full group could spin off into a project/company. The site wouldn't make money but would be valuable for the participants, and would be fitting as a derivative of YC, which finds companies from the very beginning.
- robotrout 17y ago
  I like that. I'd amend it as follows. 1) You apply for the position you want. If a project needs a JS guy, and you're a JS guy, you apply for that position. 2) To keep people from applying for every single JS position available, there is a $100, sign on fee. This fee is kept in escrow, and if you are not selected as the JS guy, it's returned to you. Until a decision is made, it's out of your account, so you can't apply to 100 projects at once. 3) Once your application is accepted, and you become the JS guy, you lose your $100 permanently, and are possibly asked for more money as well. At completion of this transaction, you are now "one of the founders". You now review resumes of other applicants, and vote on them. Applicant with the most votes becomes "the mechanical engineer guy", for example, and he buys in to the company, and helps vote for the next guys, and so on.
ErrantX 17y ago
I've been working on it in my spare time for the last couple of weeks. The code is there, Im just not sharing it with you yet :D (some cleaning up to do and a bit of fine tuning)
- stevejohnson 17y ago
  I am working on the exact same thing and have a cool domain to go with it. Sounds like you are much farther along than I am - would you like to talk about combining our resources/ideas? Steve.Johnson.Public@gmail.com

jpwagner 17y ago

http://highdeas.com/ http://highdeas.com/

olefoo 17y ago

http://www.halfbakery.com/ http://www.halfbakery.com/ -- actually it just collects ideas, but it's very entertaining. And who knows some of them might be good.

comb 17y ago

http://opensourcefunding.qrimp.com http://opensourcefunding.qrimp.com