I have had a few outlets for where I'd share random ideas I came up with: used to have one on the Elm slack, and also various places in work channels. I found that sharing my ideas was always fun, then when I'd implement them, I could take feedback from others to lead me in a new direction. I particularly liked difficult ideas - things that others would consider impossible or at least very hard to solve. Bouncing ideas off of others is a great way to discover what problems _other_ people are facing.
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#22There's a range of reasons why sharing ideas help foster a positive culture of creativity so if you don't already have a time and place to do so I strongly suggest brainstorming, 10xing, or whichever other method makes this process easy on groups of individuals. It's a lot of fun and we get a lot out of it. - you never know who might be interested in your idea - putting your ideas out there helps you to get feedback…
On the rare occasion I make an effort to contribute my thoughts in a positive way I get downvoted but nobdy even mentions why. Is it that obvious? Maybe someone else can tell me? I'd like to understand if it can help me improve my online etiquette or the HN rules better.
Its meant to be that you don't downvote people just because you disagree, but in practise its different.
If I were to downvote (and I don't recollect that I ever have) I hope I would take the time to explain why.
I think your point is good - downvoting because someone is holding an unpopular but considered opinion is bad practise - ultimately it will lead to us here being in even more of an echo chamber than we are already.
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#23There's a range of reasons why sharing ideas help foster a positive culture of creativity so if you don't already have a time and place to do so I strongly suggest brainstorming, 10xing, or whichever other method makes this process easy on groups of individuals. It's a lot of fun and we get a lot out of it. - you never know who might be interested in your idea - putting your ideas out there helps you to get feedback…
On the rare occasion I make an effort to contribute my thoughts in a positive way I get downvoted but nobdy even mentions why. Is it that obvious? Maybe someone else can tell me? I'd like to understand if it can help me improve my online etiquette or the HN rules better.
Thanks for the honest feeback. Also shortened my comment considerably to keep it to my thoughts and not the ones expressed in by the author of this article.
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#24I do something similar by sharing ideas I think would be good for startups/SaaS in a newsletter called Unvalidated Ideas (link in bio).
I've had people be so interested that they went off and tried to build some of the ideas (usually market validation first is the goal), so it’s been nice to see that.
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#25My wife has a saying, “you don’t get what you want unless you ask for it” Similar I’ve heard “if you ask you might not get it. If you don’t ask, you definitely will not” Even if the OP didn’t get their guitar, what did they lose by trying? Nothing. But since they were willing to put themself out just a little they ended up with something I’m sure they love. There’s a fine line between this attitude and demanding from…
As the say here "shy bairns get nowt."
Had to look closer into it, there's a nice audio file of it here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shy_bairns_get_nowt
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#26I asked NFL+ for the ability to hide scores, since I have evolved to avoiding the news, and then watching selected games as though they were live, and it was there the next week.
Yeah I was amazed last Olympics how my local provider spoiled the result of literally every clip in their streaming service. Surely most people want to watch without knowing the result?
The olympic broadcaster here did that here too, in the thumbnails of finished events, where you would go if you missed it live. A friend (and I would guess plenty more people) mailed them about it and they actually stopped pretty much immediately.
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#27I have often thought it would be great to have an idea marketplace, where someone could put up an idea and their 'cost' for giving it to someone ("just give me a lifetime subscription to its use and you can have all the profit"). There would undoubtedly be hundreds of issues to be thrashed out, but it could conceivably do a lot of good as well.
You should check out https://www.halfbakery.com/
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#28My wife has a saying, “you don’t get what you want unless you ask for it” Similar I’ve heard “if you ask you might not get it. If you don’t ask, you definitely will not” Even if the OP didn’t get their guitar, what did they lose by trying? Nothing. But since they were willing to put themself out just a little they ended up with something I’m sure they love. There’s a fine line between this attitude and demanding from…
As the say here "shy bairns get nowt."
I'm not sure where you're from but it's incredibly cool that you still use words recognisable from Anglo-Saxon (bearn and nawiht).
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#30If you are curious, the standard price for this guitar in a flat color is $1100, and the limited edition he wanted is only $1600. So not even anywhere near double the price.
The "deluxe" model is $1300, and one painted just like Eddie Van Halen's distinctive red/white/black "Frankenstrat" is $1750. Making your own out of the best parts you can find in pawn shops like Young Eddie did is probably less than any of these; masking tape and a few cans of spray paint are only a few bucks more. :)