Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#1

Post by ashwin_kumar » Sun, Oct 04, 2015, 5:10 AM UTC

Whoever started it, the intent was good. We should resume Idea Sunday threads. A small HN experiment maybe. Every Sunday, a new thread will be started to share product ideas. Why? Because many people have ideas they will simply not have the time to implement, and many need product ideas to work on.

Links to some interesting Idea Sundays happened earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7541601

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7582077

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7616910

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693262

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9165278

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7654771

EDIT: Well, HN admins don't see this adds a good value to HN core. More on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693640

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#2

Post by weddpros » Sun, Oct 04, 2015, 5:52 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#3

Post by minimaxir » Sun, Oct 04, 2015, 6:00 AM UTC

Your list omits the valid reason why it stopped: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693640

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#4

Post by mindcrime » Sun, Oct 04, 2015, 6:16 AM UTC

Yeah, they stopped doing them regularly because the HN admins didn't think they added enough value. I tend to disagree and would love the resumption of this as a regular thread, but unless somebody changes their mind, it will probably continue to be shut down.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#5

Post by ashwin_kumar » Sun, Oct 04, 2015, 6:20 AM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #3

Your list omits the valid reason why it stopped: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693640

Well, I wasn't aware of this. I will remove my post?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#6

Post by christopherDam » Sun, Oct 04, 2015, 8:28 AM UTC

I also disagree. It should be started again. It is very nice to see what people wants and it creates another ideas which can benefit community. If it is not interesting for someone it does not mean it is not interesting to others.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#7

Post by mapster » Sun, Oct 04, 2015, 6:32 PM UTC

Better to have this than not have it. HN admins wants to subcommittee this idea to death. Just to do it.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#8

Post by minimaxir » Sun, Oct 04, 2015, 8:29 PM UTC

mapster wrote: post #7

Better to have this than not have it. HN admins wants to subcommittee this idea to death. Just to do it.

What? Having something for the sake of having something isn't productive.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#9

Post by DanBC » Sun, Oct 04, 2015, 8:32 PM UTC

If these do happen again:

1) A special account should be set up to post the threads (and people should flag the other threads).

2) There should be no more than one thread per month.

I did recently ask about this, and HN staff are reluctant, so I didn't go ahead.

There are websites (half-baked) and there's probably a sub-reddit (and it would be easy enough to create a subreddit).

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#10

Post by DanBC » Sun, Oct 04, 2015, 8:35 PM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #3

Your list omits the valid reason why it stopped: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693640

The race condition would be easy to avoid by just having a volunteer operating an account. "IdeasMonthly" would post the thread once per month, with a bit of boilerplate.

I'm not strongly advocating for this though - mods are pretty clear about what they think and HN is divided.