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

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Post by balzss »

I'm in the camp of "Ideas are worthless, execution is everything". Not in a literal sense, obviously, but I definitely have more ideas than time for executing them. Most of them are fun little thing or tools that would be helpful but not enough to actually do them.

I would like to submit them somewhere and maybe someone likes it and wants to create it. Or maybe I could get input why it's a stupid idea or how to improve them.

It would be also nice to see others' fun ideas. Maybe find a collaborator to work on them together.

Are you aware of such a platform? If there is none, what do you think about the concept?

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Post by balzss »

thedevindevops wrote: post #2

Quality varies wildly but if you're not adverse to reddit, check out /r/AppIdeas

Thanks for suggesting it, I didn't know about that place. It seems like a flood of unrefined ideas coming from non technical people. I also see a lot of "that would be a good business" type of ideas which is definitely not what I'm after.

The good thing about that place is that it points out some obvious flaws with my initial idea. Maybe doing it on Github instead of reddit and focusing on developers and requiring a bit more details before submitting a suggestion would solve these? I don't know.

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Post by pjmorris »

I'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

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

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Post by balzss »

gowld wrote: post #4

"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?

Maybe "idea" is a too vague term here. I'm not thinking about business and large scale things. Only small little things that are in the "sideproject" category. And it's not that it's not good enough for me but having a full time job and other responsibilities seriously limits my abilities for execution.

Here the "refinement" of the ideas could be shared like it is in a company environment or in the open source development space (but that is more the execution part).

Other than that I see your point and that's why I was (and still is) unsure about this. Maybe it can never work in practice...

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Post by rocketpastsix »

gowld wrote: post #4

"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?

I get your quote, but some people like myself get stuck when we try to think of fun side project ideas or app ideas to build something. This helps people like that who just need a little push in the right direction.
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