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

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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 Giorgi »

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 was opps daily subscriber too, but all the ideas were from people that do not know how to Google.

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

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Post by anant90 »

I've been trying to give away ideas via a simple Twitter thread that I hope to keep updating over time:

https://twitter.com/anant90/status/1171867648285540352

Incidentally, "a platform for sharing well-researched ideas" is #11 on this list :)

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

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Post by cdiamand »

Giorgi wrote: post #111
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 was opps daily subscriber too, but all the ideas were from people that do not know how to Google.

Thanks for reading! :) Yep, a fair amount of these folks should have done a bit of research!

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

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Post by cdiamand »

thesehands wrote: post #110
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

Thank you :)

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

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Post by cdiamand »

xeroaura wrote: post #105
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.

Great catch! We're still very early. The landing page is not completely dialed in yet.

Going to get SSL, privacy etc set up in the coming days, and then do a proper launch.

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

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Post by ada1981 »

kerkeslager wrote: post #79

I'm in the camp of "Ideas are worthless, execution is everything", in a literal sense. I'd rather have an executed bad idea than a good idea. An obvious conclusion of this is that even though I think your "platform for sharing ideas" idea is bad, just execute it. :)

Intend to think of ideas as an exponent to execution.

You can take 5 years working your ass off to build a local pizza shop or Uber. And from working with both small and large business people the hours and stress is about the same.

A great idea will reward execution much more than a bad idea.

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

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Post by cdiamand »

steakin wrote: post #104
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.

Hahaha I was wondering if anybody would read that!

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

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Post by AQuantized »

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…

Just my opinion, but I think you need some sort of immediate display or realtime feed of the number of stock mentions you're tracking. For me personally, it's the sort of thing that sounds interesting but that I'm probably not going to sign up for an email to explore at some arbitrary point in the future.

I don't get the 'idea' of selling ideas, however. Surely to be willing to pay for an idea, you'd want to know what it is. And to know what it is would mean you wouldn't have to pay for it.

The only solution I can see to that is some sort of sci fi phenomenon, like entering a room with an 'ideas guy,' whose ideas you evaluate and can agree to buy, before having your memory of what happened in the room wiped.

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