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Show HN: A website to pitch your new startup ideas

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Re: Show HN: A website to pitch your new startup ideas

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Cool sites - I like this idea of sharing concepts and getting feedbacks. One other larger one is producthunt.co. I'd be curious to see a full list if you happen to do some more competitive research!

There are many sites like this, here's a list I started: http://appworthy.co/alternatives

Thanks for the link!

Re: Show HN: A website to pitch your new startup ideas

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post #18

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Nice! I had never heard of this website... Indeed, very similar!

Cool sites - I like this idea of sharing concepts and getting feedbacks. One other larger one is producthunt.co. I'd be curious to see a full list if you happen to do some more competitive research!

Thanks for your feedback and for the link. Nice website!

Re: Show HN: A website to pitch your new startup ideas

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I have a couple of thoughts. 1. I don't have a twitter account. 2. I found it strange that the landing page didn't have any pitched ideas. To see an idea, I had to read the bottom text, and click on one of the countries. I didn't know those were links at first either. 3. Can ppl only pitch the title of their idea? Is there a description or something.

1. That's unfortunate. I will probably make the pitches accessible to not-logged in visitors in a near future.

2. You can access the ideas list here: http://www.gopitch.me/ideas/all

3. You can see a pitch here: http://www.gopitch.me/idea/4769741570834432

Re: Show HN: A website to pitch your new startup ideas

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I've been playing with a similar idea - http://appworthy.co One thing I've done on my site is abandon passwords. Authentication is by email (if you can receive a link you can "sign in" once with it - thereafter cookies). This avoids the need to ask for permission (to tweet for me? really?) up front. Users can start reading and posting without giving up anything but their email. This is not a new idea, but I think it…

Congrats for appworthy. I didn't know about it.

Your auth is pretty clever to minimize the barrier to entry.

Yet, I thought Twitter could be an interesting channel for my app and decided to build my website on top of it.

Re: Show HN: A website to pitch your new startup ideas

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post #15

I have a couple of thoughts. 1. I don't have a twitter account. 2. I found it strange that the landing page didn't have any pitched ideas. To see an idea, I had to read the bottom text, and click on one of the countries. I didn't know those were links at first either. 3. Can ppl only pitch the title of their idea? Is there a description or something.

I also don't have a twitter account, and therefore can't post my ideas.

Re: Show HN: A website to pitch your new startup ideas

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Seriously, why would any one sign in without even knowing what it would contain. Put some samples atleast.

You can view examples by clicking the links at the bottom of the page like here: http://www.gopitch.me/ideas/all

I also hadn't realized that this was possible.

Again, there are reasons for the things you are doing - I understand this. And there are ways to get around your block - but take the feedback.

If one person says it here, it means that dozens had the same reaction and just decided not to voice it.

Re: Show HN: A website to pitch your new startup ideas

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Thumbs down for the twitter login. Recent ideas should be more prominent. Probably show the latest ten on the main page, then a link for more. Plus a huge (red) button to pitch a new idea in the front page.

Why does a website need to do this?

    Read Tweets from your timeline.
    See who you follow, and follow new people.
    Update your profile.
    Post Tweets for you.
I just want to view and list projects.
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