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Hacker news, but for ideas
- genieyclo 17y agoNo Clickpass login implementation.
- SwellJoe 17y agoDidn't you get the memo? Ideas have very little value on their own.
- chrischen 17y agoIdeas have little value because they must be tested. That is, any idea is useless unless you know it works, and If you know, you must have already implemented it. So getting advice for an idea is still valuable.
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- milkshakes 17y agoWhile ideas might not be worth as much as the implementation of ideas, an implementation without an idea would probably be worth less. I think anyone would agree that it's better to start with a good idea than a bad one. I think it will be very interesting to see what ideas an intelligent, invested community would select.
- bemmu 17y agoThat's why it's OK just to trade them around for fun. Btw. I'm getting "502 BAD GATEWAY" all the time.
- bravura 17y agoAre you sure ideas have very little value on their own? "Some kind of city made of marshmellows" -http://idea-ne.ws/item?id=63 http://idea-ne.ws/item?id=63 That idea alone is priceless.
- tianaco 17y agoThink outside the box, SwellJoe. Brainstorming has value of it's own.
- hpvic03 17y agoI love talking about ideas and was actually thinking of implementing something like this myself. You've got one user.
- milkshakes 17y agotwo. I would love to help.
- amichail 17y agoIt seems that talking about ideas -- especially your own -- is somehow taboo. Rather unfortunate.
- rglullis 17y agoI'm sorry. I know this is going to sound harsh, but I'll be the one saying it - again - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=182193 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=182193 . Talking about ideas was never taboo. It's just that your ideas are consistently inane and not worth talking about.
- amichail 17y agoYou shouldn't make people feel self-conscious about putting their ideas out there. Maybe something that sounds silly at first might develop into something more interesting with some discussion. Of course, you can have mechanisms in place to give everyone a chance to express their ideas. For example, you could make people pay for submissions using karma points.
- rglullis 17y agoI'd argue exactly the opposite. I want people to feel self-conscious about their own ideas. I want people to be reasonably good filters. We already live in an information overloaded world. If I started "putting my ideas" out there with no filter, I would certainly be a source of information with a terrible SNR. And please, this is not saying that I want to conform to the majority. What I want is for you to stop transferring the burden of testing and validation of your ideas (especially ones at such an early phase) to others. You say "maybe something that sounds silly at first might develop into something more interesting with some discussion". Honest question: has it happened before? ----------- As an example, I'm going to take your last paragraph and show exactly what kind of "filters" I'm talking about, the kind of filters that you should be using: Of course, you can have mechanisms in place to give everyone a chance to express their ideas. For example, you could make people pay for submissions using karma points. Before typing the question, you should've recognized that: 1. There already are mechanisms in place to "give everyone a chance for people to express their ideas". It's called comment box. 2. Not everyone is here to "express their ideas". I am here to find good content. Some are here just because of the community. Some are here just because of YC. 3. There are other ways to express your ideas. For instance, you could easily start a blog or stick to twitter. It does not take much to see that what you want is not "mechanisms in place to give everyone a chance to express their ideas", but actually what you are trying is to devise a solution for a problem that exists only in your head, i.e, "How can we turn this simple forum into some sort of discussion game?" What bothers me is not the fact that you want to think on problems with little practical utility. What bothers me is that you expect others to join you without showing no glimpse of a solution! Case in point: HN and reddit's source code is free. If you really think that either website would be better with your proposals, show us the code!
- milkshakes 17y agowhats next? now we have a simple, yet functional community based idea incubator. definitely not the ideal tool for the job, but a really good start. We also have startups.com, a stackoverflow type knowledge exchange, focused on startup experience. Tools like skype, github, basecamp or fogbugz let startups and developers coordinate efforts across the office or across the world. Social networks let users discover mutual friends with aligned interests or ambitions. Finally, we can't forget about the extensive libraries of articles, presentations, and videos that are multiplying at a frightening pace. I, for one would be interested in a service that integrated all of the above together. Would anyone else?
- Vivtek 17y agoYes.
- chaosmachine 17y agoMany of the headlines look like SEO spam. "Cheap custom suits for Men" "Jewelry delivery service" etc..
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- adriand 17y agoThe "Cheap custom suits for Men" idea is described simply as "$100 custom suits for men.". This reminds me of the Ali G episode where he presents his idea for the ice cream glove (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkuOuxRD1Bc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkuOuxRD1Bc). The Venn Diagram for $100 custom suits would have "all the people without much money" in one circle, and "all the people who want to be really well-dressed" in the other. The intersection represents a huge market, which means this idea is nothing short of brilliant.
- bokonist 17y agoI actually bought a $100 custom suit when I visited Shanghai. It was perhaps the best $100 I ever spent, it ended up looking really good.
- dkersten 17y agoI got a suit for €100 in Damascus a few weeks back. It looks awesome and is really, really comfortable. :-P
- mahmud 17y agoI had that idea 3 years ago and even sourced the tailors in Vietnam :-) I want to Saigon with a backpack full of GQ, Esquire, and tons of catalogs. All that came out of it was some tiny tailors started making fashion-house suits in some Saigon slum and nothing was exported due to the messy business that is Vietnam shipping industry (they work best when you stay in the country and show up at the port. Vietnam Post is unreliable for frequent small shipments, for made to order garments. If you're gonna do business with locals make sure they have a $ stake in the venture, and foreigners there are slacker-type teachers, isolated in their own expat-communities and are not very business minded.)
- sutro 17y agoI had a feeling that we've all been missing out on something here on HN. Now we know what that something is: ideas.
- kajecounterhack 17y agoKitten Mittens
- hkuo 17y agoThis is a great idea for a site. But it's success will depend entirely on how serious the majority of submittors take it. On that, I don't have much confidence. If there were some kind of incentive, like the top-voted idea each month or bi-monthly is somehow actually funded, then the jokers would become completely irrelevant.
- ahpeeyem 17y agoWhat if you could vote with money? So everyone who votes on the winning idea can then choose to contribute some amount and the sum of everyone's contributions buys, say, a 25% share in the idea, acting as seed funding. If only there was a website where I could discuss with people if this is a good idea or not...
- DotSauce 17y agoIf I may respectfully say that the domain name is terrible. There must be a nice .COM brand name for such a concept? I was curious about the Hacker News backend, interesting to see it is open source. I really like the http://slinkset.com http://slinkset.com hosted service which is essentially the same functionality.
- gojomo 17y agoThere's also Halfbakery and its ilk: http://www.halfbakery.com/ http://www.halfbakery.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfbakery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfbakery (lists 5 similar sites)
- ComputerGuru 17y agoSimilar site at http://halfbakery.com http://halfbakery.com - I really love it
- fbailey 17y agoWe are working on something similar at the moment, but it's less about news and more about sharing and inspiration. Going to launch 1 quarter 09
- tocomment 17y agoI get "502 Bad Gateway". I guess that's a good idea ...
- dejan 17y agoI agree on the need for this. I am working on a similar project, oriented towards students: http://www.aleveo.com/ideas http://www.aleveo.com/ideas IMHO, more discussion there is on ideas, more people are willing to cross the threshold and actually start working.
- Vivtek 17y agoError 404: The domain you are trying to reach has been disabled for violations of our TOS/AUP. (That apparently applies to ne.ws as a whole.) Bravura, do you have a backup? Will you move to a different domain? Please?