Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

151–160 of 173 posts

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

#151

Post by fullstackchris »

HeyLaughingBoy wrote: post #100
sailfast wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wouldn't that be an excellent outcome for the person with the idea?

Absolutely. But OP is focused on getting good projects for the developers and usually the devs saying they can't find customers are in locations where the COL is too high for this to be profitable for them. One to get around this problem is to focus on only doing the same kind of work and getting better at doing it quickly so it becomes profitable to you, or doing it in a more Productized Service fashion. But that's…

This is huge, and what plagues a lot of software engineers / product developers to this day. You may find a super cheap software company somewhere out in the world - but if the project is anything more than something like a webpage with jquery (as most modern projects involving software are) you end up spending more on fixing, re-fixing, and billing than you would have if you had just paid one time for the more expensive company / service / consultant that is well vouched for or acreddited

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

#153

Post by karlicoss »

samsquire wrote: post #64

I've got my list of ideas here; https://github.com/samsquire/ideas

Wow, that's fantastic! Bookmarked as it would take a while to read through :)

Have you considered adding table of contents by the way?

P.S. from a quick glance we seem to share some:

- personal infrastructure: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21844105

- personal data api, separating frontend and backend: https://beepb00p.xyz/mypkg.html#examples (draft)

- life engine: I've got a personal dashboard for health, exercise and sleep; also timeline for life events

Exciting!

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

#154

Post by passivepinetree »

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.

IIRC they don't actually run anyone's cards until the project meets the goal, so refunding isn't an issue. Perhaps someone who's funded a Kickstarter more recently than me could confirm.

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

#155

Post by pseudozach »

Ironically this is on my to-do list. A site where devs can put out ideas, users can lock money on them and the person that develops it and brings it live can claim the bounty. I have so many ideas but I'm tired of putting out things that only a few people use as are lots of others on here.

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

#156

Post by mmmuhd »

Well I am in the camp of "ideas and even execution are worthless" now, what really matters is strong focus, I have executed 3 ideas from November of last year but after building them to what I feel like is a finished mvp, I always feel strong irresistible desire to build something else that I think is the coolest thing only to throw it after finishing, this is really my problem now.

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

#158

Post by ken »

I appreciate the sentiment, but at the same time, most ideas are worthless. Even if you had knowledge of some successful system of today, went to an alternate universe that lacked it, and described it to them in detail, the team would still screw it up. It's not their baby. They need a leader who gets it, not just an idea dump.

Recall the story of Bezos and his challenge to let customers order from Amazon "with a single click". His team's first prototype required twelve clicks. He sent them back to work, and the second prototype required two clicks. It's not a question of complexity, because ideas don't get any simpler than that.

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

#159

Post by thrwaway69 »

AQuantized wrote: post #119
cdiamand wrote: post #47

I 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…

Same, I am curious too so I just decided to (shameful plug) create an email and reply to any requests for now at get_an_idea@protonmail.com for ideas with some details regarding your background, field of interest, and motive.

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

#160

Post by NateEag »

InitialLastName wrote: post #130
NateEag wrote: post #23

I 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)?

If it targets desktop OSes or mainstream mobile devices, it's not real-time. Those appear to be JUCE's targets.

I guess in the modern era of Web devs redefining established terminology, I should say I want a hard real-time system.

I want guarantees audio will not glitch, not reasonably good odds everything will be okay if I turn off networking, only use plugins from developers who know how to write safeish code on desktop OSes, kill all nonessential programs, and pray.

Similarly, I want the engine to be able to tell me what it can do on the hardware hosting it.

If you're familiar with the Nord Modular or the Nord Modular G2 (https://www.nordkeyboards.com/products/nord-modular-g2), their audio engines met all my requirements except open source and hardware-agnostic (really, they were the source of most of the requirements).

Learning audio programming on my beloved G2X, falling in love with it, and watching the platform slowly die is why OSS and hardware agnostic are requirements now. It's been unsupported for years and Motorola hasn't made the DSP chips it uses in years.

One day, my patches will no longer be playable, in a way that just isn't true for acoustic instruments.

I don't want that to happen with the platform I move to once the G2 dies completely.

Hope that clarifies it some?

Post reply on HN