We are working on something similar at the moment, but it's less about news and more about sharing and inspiration. Going to launch 1 quarter 09
Going to launch 1 quarter 09
How are you doing the time machine part ;)
Hacker news, but for ideas
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Re: Hacker news, but for ideas
#52I agree on the need for this. I am working on a similar project, oriented towards students: http://www.aleveo.com/ideas
IMHO, more discussion there is on ideas, more people are willing to cross the threshold and actually start working.
Re: Hacker news, but for ideas
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
The "Cheap custom suits for Men" idea is described simply as "$100 custom suits for men.". This reminds me of the Ali G episode where he presents his idea for the ice cream glove ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkuOuxRD1Bc ). The Venn Diagram for $100 custom suits would have "all the people without much money" in one circle, and "all the people who want to be really well-dressed" in the other. The intersection repre…
I actually bought a $100 custom suit when I visited Shanghai. It was perhaps the best $100 I ever spent, it ended up looking really good.
I got a suit for €100 in Damascus a few weeks back. It looks awesome and is really, really comfortable. :-P
Re: Hacker news, but for ideas
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's always the crazy ideas that get marginalized by the majority, because chances are the majority are right. However the ideas that turn out to be great initially manifests as crazy to the majority. Rather unfortunate "adaptation" but the one way we can avoid killing potentially great things is to not discredit something until it can be proven to be bad, and to not discourage "weird" behavior.
It's not my job to filter out every idea out there and try to prove it's a bad one. It's not up to me to carry the burden of proof. Also, I don't "discourage weird behavior". I do discourage "weird behavior who relies on my acceptance of the terms", and that's what bugs me about amichail constant polls and 'ASK YC' posts. To make an analogy, I don't mind reading about people who are into body modification, even to th…
About the twin getting his brother's arm, that was actually an April fool's story that bme ran: http://www.bme.com/news/people/A10101/addsub/fools.html
Re: Hacker news, but for ideas
#55I love talking about ideas and was actually thinking of implementing something like this myself. You've got one user.
Great people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small people talk about people. - Dave Marinaccio
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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#56This is a great idea for a site. But it's success will depend entirely on how serious the majority of submittors take it. On that, I don't have much confidence. If there were some kind of incentive, like the top-voted idea each month or bi-monthly is somehow actually funded, then the jokers would become completely irrelevant.
What if you could vote with money? So everyone who votes on the winning idea can then choose to contribute some amount and the sum of everyone's contributions buys, say, a 25% share in the idea, acting as seed funding.
If only there was a website where I could discuss with people if this is a good idea or not...
Re: Hacker news, but for ideas
#57If I may respectfully say that the domain name is terrible. There must be a nice .COM brand name for such a concept? I was curious about the Hacker News backend, interesting to see it is open source. I really like the http://slinkset.com hosted service which is essentially the same functionality.
I like the name, it reminds me of the old del.icio.us
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#58whats next? now we have a simple, yet functional community based idea incubator. definitely not the ideal tool for the job, but a really good start. We also have startups.com, a stackoverflow type knowledge exchange, focused on startup experience. Tools like skype, github, basecamp or fogbugz let startups and developers coordinate efforts across the office or across the world. Social networks let users discover mutua…
Yes.
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#59I get "502 Bad Gateway". I guess that's a good idea ...
Re: Hacker news, but for ideas
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Great people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small people talk about people. - Dave Marinaccio
How about: Wealthy businessmen talk about people. Average businessmen talk about things. Poor businessmen talk about ideas.
I want to clarify that half my point is that this crap is easy to write.