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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 ghostbrainalpha »

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 really like your Marauders Map idea.

I'd been playing around with location sharing, and making a map to see where everyone in my family is, as wall art.

But I completely forgot about how neat the Harry Potter Design was. I'd love to put a skin on it to make it more like the Marauders Map.

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

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Post by darekkay »

samsquire wrote: post #64

I've got my list of ideas here; https://github.com/samsquire/ideas

Nice - a really long, detailed list of ideas. My dashboard project [1] is related to your item #5 (Life Engine), but it's a way to early state to be included on your list. Thanks for some new ideas.

[1] https://dashboard.darekkay.com/docs/

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

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Post by [deleted] »

nabnob wrote: post #24

Follow up question - Does anyone have advice for changing your mindset so you actually notice a potential idea when you have some pain point? I feel like I ignore my own ideas that seem insignificant. It just isn't a reflex to think "hey I should write a program to solve this".

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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 steakin »

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 haven't read it, but I bet it's great."

Jonathan R., CFA and Investor "

Hahaha, you're great.

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

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Post by xeroaura »

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…

Btw, the TOS/privacy policy are both just links to support(?) email.

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

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Post by pascalxus »

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…

Good on you for attempting to solve this problem.

This part of your comment is absolutely key and worth repeating: "My readers told me time and time again that they wanted to be connected to someone who would pay for the idea. That is the real challenge"

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

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Post by Can_Not »

I found a similar platform to what to are describing once in the past, the main issue was that 100% of the ideas I found were wildly outside the scope of apps I was interested in making. Maybe if I could categorically exclude IOT, iPhone ideas, blockchain, full video games, etc..

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

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Post by frankus »

wpietri wrote: post #86

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.…

There's a card game that was recently on KickStarter called Pitch Deck: https://pitchdeck.business, sort of in the vein of Schmoovie.

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

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Post by netrap »

pjmorris wrote: post #7

I'm reminded of the Halfbakery [0] "The Halfbakery is a communal database of original, fictitious inventions, edited by its users. It was created by people who like to speculate, both as a form of satire and as a form of creative expression." [1] [0] https://www.halfbakery.com/ [1] https://www.halfbakery.com/editorial/about.html

I've been trying to remember this site for a long time. This is it! Thanks for posting, couldn't remember what the name was for ages!

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

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Post by thesehands »

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…

Thanks for opps daily, i was a subscriber and enjoyed thinking through the problems posted but as with others here was too busy to commit pen to paper on any of them. good luck with topstonks.com
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