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Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?
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Re: Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?
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Re: Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?
#123I've just started an opensource project (platform) that closely matches your idea. We gathered over 60 people interested in contributing on Slack in just two days.
A quote from my post on dev.to where it all started -
"A platform where people can express their app wishes (e.g. "I wish I had an app for X and Y") and vote up other people's great ideas.
Developers can use Appwish to keep track of the most wanted apps and features. They can assign themselves to projects, create dev teams and collaborate to fulfil people's needs.
In the future, the platform could also introduce elements of fund-raising or voluntary donations for the most appreciated developers and teams."
At the moment we are on stage of planning features/architecture and the development will start soon - we got frontend developers, backend devs, devops, a few designers and even mobile devs. + We were offered free hosting on one of startups offering managed Kubernetes clusters.
If anyone is interested, I can share our Slack channel/Github URL - we put everything in public anyways :)
Re: Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?
#124I tried to tackle this problem, or atleast the problem of helping people find ideas. I built http://oppsdaily.com and http://oppslist.com . They're both now sunset and I'm no longer sending emails out or updating the platform. I will say that ideas are generally far less valuable than a first customer. My readers told me time and time again that they wanted to be connected to someone who would pay for the idea. That…
Just my opinion, but I think you need some sort of immediate display or realtime feed of the number of stock mentions you're tracking. For me personally, it's the sort of thing that sounds interesting but that I'm probably not going to sign up for an email to explore at some arbitrary point in the future. I don't get the 'idea' of selling ideas, however. Surely to be willing to pay for an idea, you'd want to know wha…
Great feedback! We'll likely be setting up some kind of platform to show realtime data in the next few weeks.
The value I hope we provide is in summarizing and simplifying major trends in these often overlooked, and sometimes sketchy places. So you don't have to wade through a massive amount of content, that is sometimes offensive, in order to understand what people are talking about.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?
#125I tried to tackle this problem, or atleast the problem of helping people find ideas. I built http://oppsdaily.com and http://oppslist.com . They're both now sunset and I'm no longer sending emails out or updating the platform. I will say that ideas are generally far less valuable than a first customer. My readers told me time and time again that they wanted to be connected to someone who would pay for the idea. That…
I contributed an idea to one of these and was contacted by someone who wanted to contract with me to build a tool. That's not what I wanted. I didn't want to spend $15k to get someone to make something for me. I wanted to say "this is annoying to me. If that gives you a hint as to something that you could build, that's awesome: I'll pay you $7 / month".
What I definitely did not desire is a bespoke solution. I can go get that from a contracting website.
What I also definitely didn't desire is wanting to research things so I can create a nice opportunity for you. That's a waste of my time. I can just pay someone on Upwork to research for me.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?
#126I tried to tackle this problem, or atleast the problem of helping people find ideas. I built http://oppsdaily.com and http://oppslist.com . They're both now sunset and I'm no longer sending emails out or updating the platform. I will say that ideas are generally far less valuable than a first customer. My readers told me time and time again that they wanted to be connected to someone who would pay for the idea. That…
FWIW, I really loved oppslist.com. It was fun to visit it almost every other day (I am obsessed with ideas lol). If you ever want to bring it up, would love to help in any way possible.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sharing idea's are pretty useless in general, if you're not excited enough to work on your own idea, why would someone else be excited to work on it? I'm curious if people posting things they NEED would be more functional, along with a bounty. Other people who also want it can contribute to the bounty. Anyone can work on the idea's and the bounty is awarded to whoever solves it first/best. (I think you would need som…
Someone actually developed an MVP of this concept. It was really highly upvoted on hacker news but I can't remember the name of it. I don't think the project ever got off the ground, but I can say it was definitely a popular idea amongst developers. So you'll have no problem getting that side of the equation to show up. It's finding folks with a problem and some money that is the challenge. But if you figure it out y…
Inkit? Pretty cool product https://www.inkit.com/
Re: Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?
#128I've just started an opensource project (platform) that closely matches your idea. We gathered over 60 people interested in contributing on Slack in just two days. A quote from my post on dev.to where it all started - "A platform where people can express their app wishes (e.g. "I wish I had an app for X and Y") and vote up other people's great ideas. Developers can use Appwish to keep track of the most wanted apps an…
Yes, post the Slack invite link... This sounds really interesting!
Re: Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?
#129I just maintain such a list on my website: http://www.nateeag.com/software/ideas.html I haven't tried to publicize it at all (well, until this post). Start the list on a website somewhere, and if you want people to look at it, submit it to HN, Reddit, et al. That should give you everything you need. Not everything needs to be a platform.
I really like your Marauders Map idea. I'd been playing around with location sharing, and making a map to see where everyone in my family is, as wall art. But I completely forgot about how neat the Harry Potter Design was. I'd love to put a skin on it to make it more like the Marauders Map.
Have at it! The whole reason I publish these ideas is in hopes they may come into being.
If you do get something working I'd love to see it.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?
#130I just maintain such a list on my website: http://www.nateeag.com/software/ideas.html I haven't tried to publicize it at all (well, until this post). Start the list on a website somewhere, and if you want people to look at it, submit it to HN, Reddit, et al. That should give you everything you need. Not everything needs to be a platform.
For your audio engine, I'm unclear on which of this isn't covered by JUCE (besides open source)?