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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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Post by SilasX »

nitwit005 wrote: post #138
SilasX wrote: post #135

I thought that Kickstarter/Indiegogo had effectively become this. A common complaint is, "hey, I launched a Kickstarter, got funded, and some Chinese factory stole the idea!" My response is always, "so? Aren't those sites more for 'I wish this existed so I could be a customer' than 'I want to personally profit from this idea'?" So, yeah, if you don't care about someone stealing it, you might be able to repurpose Kick…

I assume there's still some friction from credit card charges and whatnot, but I do like that plan as a cheap way to get something made.

I wasn't sure, so I checked their help page, and apparently, failed projects aren't charged anything:

>If a project does not reach its funding goal, no fees are collected.

https://help.kickstarter.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005028634-...

I don't know how they handle -- or if it would be an issue if you went the route of -- "Funding goal met but canceled anyway".

Or if they have rules against, "I have no idea how to make this thing but that stereotypical overseas factory says they can do it so I'm contracting it out to them."

Re: Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?

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Post by gitgud »

karlicoss wrote: post #139

I keep mine on my personal blog https://beepb00p.xyz/ideas.html In fact one of main drives to write for me is to spread ideas on other people so someone else works on them!

Wow pretty interesting, I too wonder why avocados are the only fatty fruit!

Does that page use a framework? Or is it designed from scratch? Very cool design.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?

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Post by gitgud »

NateEag wrote: post #129
ghostbrainalpha wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Such a refreshing opinion on ideas!

Its hard for a lot of people to look past their selfish motivations of being the creator.

But at the end of the day, if you don't have time but want it to be made... Why not share it!

Re: Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?

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Post by fhbdukfrh »

HeyLaughingBoy wrote: post #96
stanmancan wrote: post #77

Earlier 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…

I have more ideas than I have time to implement, so I focus on the ones that are most interesting/doable/potentially profitable. The bounty idea is a good one, but again, I think it will rapidly become a race to the bottom on price. As soon as the bounty gets to the point where someone in e.g., Eastern Europe thinks it's good money, they'll bid on it even though a dev in SF thinks it's pocket change. I'll bet dollars…

Don't we already know the magic number is $5?

Re: Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?

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Post by pseudozach »

yourapostasy wrote: post #57
jcadam wrote: post #32

There are a lot of us with the technical chops (and/or can get a team together) to make a good software solution/product/service that are stuck on step 1: Identifying a real problem that companies will pay money to have solved for them. I wish there was a place/service that would connect businesses with real problems (that they either can't or would rather not solve in-house) with aspiring (tech) entrepreneurs. I'm s…

You identified a sales problem. There is a giant gulf between problems that companies say they have, even say they want to pay for, and actually cutting a purchase order when the rubber meets the road. What we are lacking is a blockchain-verifiable reputation audit trail into an escrow-like system tied to an ideas factory on one side, implementers on another side, and funders on a third side, down to the individual n…

oh please don't bring blockchain into this and put a simple task/bounty website on a giant replicated public db.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?

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Post by karlicoss »

gitgud wrote: post #143
karlicoss wrote: post #139

I keep mine on my personal blog https://beepb00p.xyz/ideas.html In fact one of main drives to write for me is to spread ideas on other people so someone else works on them!

Wow pretty interesting, I too wonder why avocados are the only fatty fruit! Does that page use a framework? Or is it designed from scratch? Very cool design.

Thanks! I don't have much imagination so compensate for it by at least having clean design, glad when people like it :)

These are all just static pages, exported from org-mode (as most of my blog pages) + org-css theme [0] + some minor HTML/CSS tweaks and posprocessing I'm describing in github readme [1]

I'll upload all org-mode sources at some point as well, just need to think of a good way of cleaning them up from even more chaotic personal notes (which aren't exported).

[0] https://github.com/gongzhitaao/orgcss

[1] https://github.com/karlicoss/beepb00p#org-mode

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