My humble suggestion: write a web page with all your ideas, publish the page on HN and let people comments. It has already been done in the past.
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”?
#42I'm reminded of the Halfbakery [0] "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] [0] https://www.halfbakery.com/ [1] https://www.halfbakery.com/editorial/about.html
Whoa, that site is still around! Brings back some web 1.0 memories. I used to hit that one regularly in my search results.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?
#43I'm reminded of the Halfbakery [0] "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] [0] https://www.halfbakery.com/ [1] https://www.halfbakery.com/editorial/about.html
Fictitious? I put my very best ideas on there.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?
#44I'm reminded of the Halfbakery [0] "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] [0] https://www.halfbakery.com/ [1] https://www.halfbakery.com/editorial/about.html
Fictitious? I put my very best ideas on there.
:) I am just quoting their about page verbatim. Personally, I think the statement undersells its value considerably.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?
#45You can do that on Twitter.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?
#46I'm reminded of the Halfbakery [0] "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] [0] https://www.halfbakery.com/ [1] https://www.halfbakery.com/editorial/about.html
First idea I opened actually got implemented: https://www.halfbakery.com/idea/anti_20enron_20policy#108023...
Re: Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?
#47I 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 is the real challenge, and if you can figure that out, you're going to have a booming business. And I think there is opportunity in the space somewhere between e-lance and just "ideas". Some kind of platform that matches a developer and an initial customer in a way that rewards both. Finding these people is a challenge, but I think it's possible, and the person who figures out how to do it is going to have a MASSIVE business on their hands. I could go on about this a lot further, but I wholly recommend exploring it.
I'm onto my next project now, which interestingly is helping people find investing ideas. We launched yesterday so we'll see how it goes. If you want to chat about the idea space - cory @t topstonks.com or check out the the new project its at http://topstonks.com. Good luck!
Re: Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?
#48"Ideas are worthless, execution is everything" means that with high probability everyone who can execute already knows your ideas. If your idea isn't good enough for you to work on it, why would it inspire anyone else?
That's a good point. On the other hand one may have ideas that are not pursued because of: lack of domain expertise, lack of capital, family commitments, etc.
Exactly this. If I woke up with a million-$ idea tomorrow, chances are good I could not just get up and just pursue it. Why not let someone else take the chance?
Add to this that, as time progresses, more and more ideas that are doable by a person (or a small group) are already done. So your idea needs to solve its problem better (by whatever metric, e.g. price/usability/...).
This is somewhat countered by improved tooling (e.g. stripe, node.js, $stack_of_the_week) and cheaper tech (e.g. raw compute power), as well as by growing and better interconnected global markets (the global equivalent to opening a specialty shop in a tiny village or a booming mega city).
Re: Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?
#49I 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.
Nice list!
There are at least four Android GPS trackers in F-Droid: OpenTracks, RunnerUp, OSMTracker and TinyTravelTracker, maybe there's one less app you need to build!
https://github.com/OpenTracksApp/OpenTracks
https://github.com/jonasoreland/runnerup
Re: Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?
#50Products that people wish existed are usually (not always) terrible ideas. There's no barrier to just blurting out something you wish existed - you know, something you want to exist, but you definitely won't be building and can't promise you'll use and definitely won't pay for. There's literally nothing holding you back from stating something that you wish existed even if it's just a tiny thing that you personally want in this specific moment for this specific use case.