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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 cdiamand »

samcheng wrote: post #80
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…

Cory, I really enjoyed reading your "Opps Daily" emails. Even though I, like many others, never acted on any of them. Thanks for your effort here!

Thanks Sam, that means a lot :) Onwards!

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

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Post by Jarwain »

stanmancan wrote: post #77
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…

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…

There's a site I used to look at that does something similar called mindsumo.

They do more than just tech problems though, and the solver doesn't really maintain ownership

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

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Post by wpietri »

For a while I ran an event called Pitchosaurus. We'd get together in the evening with beers. The general structure was:

Someone pitches the core of an idea. The idea can be either serious or ridiculous, but they should always pitch it as if it were serious.

Then everybody else, one at a time, proposed amendments or amplifications. These too may be serious or ridiculous, but they must be done in a "yes and" [1] style. No criticism is allowed (although add-ons may of course address a perceived flaw.

Eventually, when the amendments stop coming, a brief discussion of the idea and related topics is allowed. When that runs down, start again.

It was a lot of fun. I stopped doing it for life-happens reasons, but I'd encourage anybody to pick it up and run with it. It might be possible to capture the spirit in a website as well. Feel free to email or tweet at me if I can be of service.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_and...

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

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Post by otras »

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…

I subscribed to oppsdaily for roughly two years. Thank you for running it! While my stars never aligned to work on any of them, it was great to see real problems that were out there.

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

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Post by wpietri »

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…

I'm curious: who, if anybody, was your first customer for the opps* projects?

I'm a person with a big idea surplus, so I'm sure you had the supply end nailed. But who's on the demand end? This may be more related to my personality, but I just don't know anybody who ever is in the state of, "Gosh, I want to do something but have no idea what".

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

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Post by kevan »

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…

>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.

DemandRush[1] had this model. You'd post ideas along with how much you were willing to pay for it. It looks like the website[2] was shut down sometime in 2019.

[1] https://www.producthunt.com/posts/demandrush [1] https://www.demandrush.com/

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

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Post by cpach »

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.

I took a look at your page and found Watson. Thank you so much for linking to it. I’ve been looking for such a tool for a very long time. Will probably try it out soon. Thank you again!
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