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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by DanBC »

tptacek wrote: post #7

The moderator, 'dang, has asked that these not get posted anymore: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693262 ("Something about having all these ideas in one place makes the whole less than the sum of its parts.", "Ideas are better in the wild. Let's discuss them as they come up organically, rather than try to organize an idea-fest.")

It'd be useful (to some people) if one account could post a once monthly thread for idea-dumping.

People often point out existing solutions, so that's useful. Restricting it to a single account and once per month avoids the other problems of those threads.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by DanBC »

robotpony wrote: post #5

An app that lets you track the last person to buy beer in a group of friends by taking their picture. With an in-app-purchase, you can ensure that the next time you meet that the app lists yourself as the last beer-monger (while still retaining the history accurately otherwise). Great for that manager or boss who never pays his share.

Don't buy rounds - they lead to excess drinking. People should be buying their own drinks.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by niix »

DanBC wrote: post #12
robotpony wrote: post #5

An app that lets you track the last person to buy beer in a group of friends by taking their picture. With an in-app-purchase, you can ensure that the next time you meet that the app lists yourself as the last beer-monger (while still retaining the history accurately otherwise). Great for that manager or boss who never pays his share.

Don't buy rounds - they lead to excess drinking. People should be buying their own drinks.

But what about those of us who like things like lead to excess drinking?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by tobych »

lucb1e wrote: post #6
tobych wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Buy Nothing Project (started by a couple of friends of mine) is a successful model for this. It's not an app, but a network of Facebook groups. From their 'About' page: "The Buy Nothing Project began as an experimental hyper-local gift economy on Bainbridge Island, WA; in just 8 months, it has become a social movement, growing to over 25,000 members in 150 groups, in 4 countries. Our local groups form gift econom…

If I understand you correctly, this is for buying gifts for others and getting the same in return. I think the OP meant doing something for someone else, e.g. getting something from a store you're going to anyway, but being refunded. I wouldn't be as inclined to gift something to a stranger as much as I'd be to grab something along for someone nearby. I don't need to be reimbursed for the effort, but I also don't wan…

Buy Nothing Project (BNP) isn't about "gifts" in that sense. Here, the "gift economy" is "a mode of exchange where valuables are not sold, but rather given without an explicit agreement for immediate or future rewards".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_economy

An aim of BNP is to build a hyper-local community where people give and receive goods and services with no money or bartering involved. You get to know the people involved in your group, because only people living within a certain area are allowed to be in the group. And yes, groups do indeed have people picking up things from stores for each other, or giving them rides, on occasion. Some groups including informal lending libraries, where you can borrow tools, equipment, household items an no charge.

Around here on Bainbridge Island, you often see tables on porches for BNB'ers (Buy Nothing Bainbridge members) to pick up stuff. The things (a garlic press; a pair of pants; a lawnmower) will have been listed on the group's FB page, probably with a photo, then there'll have been a few people saying they'd love to have it. Sometimes things go first-come, first-served; other times people get randomly selected.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by yawboakye »

keithwarren wrote: post #8

System for product/service idea evaluation. I spend lots of time talking with friends and other hackers about ideas and wish I had a system to create objective evaluations of ideas based on a series of metrics. Right now we use a shared google sheet but there is bias that occurs, for example if we score the potential for viral growth on a 1-10 basis, we see each others scores.

You mean judging an idea's viability by sitting around a table and guessing? When it comes to judging ideas errors by investors and "customers" during customer validation give prudence to the fact that no one knows which idea would really take off. A computerized system would make the mistake more difficult to accept.
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