Many of the headlines look like SEO spam. "Cheap custom suits for Men" "Jewelry delivery service" etc..
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Hacker news, but for ideas
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Re: Hacker news, but for ideas
#22Many of the headlines look like SEO spam. "Cheap custom suits for Men" "Jewelry delivery service" etc..
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 represents a huge market, which means this idea is nothing short of brilliant.
Re: Hacker news, but for ideas
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It seems that talking about ideas -- especially your own -- is somehow taboo. Rather unfortunate.
I'm sorry. I know this is going to sound harsh, but I'll be the one saying it - again - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=182193 . Talking about ideas was never taboo. It's just that your ideas are consistently inane and not worth talking about.
You shouldn't make people feel self-conscious about putting their ideas out there. Maybe something that sounds silly at first might develop into something more interesting with some discussion.
Of course, you can have mechanisms in place to give everyone a chance to express their ideas. For example, you could make people pay for submissions using karma points.
Re: Hacker news, but for ideas
#24Many of the headlines look like SEO spam. "Cheap custom suits for Men" "Jewelry delivery service" etc..
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.
Re: Hacker news, but for ideas
#25Kitten Mittens
Re: Hacker news, but for ideas
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems that talking about ideas -- especially your own -- is somehow taboo. Rather unfortunate.
I'm sorry. I know this is going to sound harsh, but I'll be the one saying it - again - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=182193 . Talking about ideas was never taboo. It's just that your ideas are consistently inane and not worth talking about.
They're definitely consistently odd, but sometimes they're interesting. You have to admit the place wouldn't be the same without amichail.
Re: Hacker news, but for ideas
#27This 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.
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Great people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small people talk about people. - Dave Marinaccio
Have seen this so many times, and just realized for the first time it's self-referential. Clever!
Hey, good point! It's like Groucho Marx's "I'd never join a club that would have me as a member."
Re: Hacker news, but for ideas
#29If 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.
Re: Hacker news, but for ideas
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sorry. I know this is going to sound harsh, but I'll be the one saying it - again - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=182193 . Talking about ideas was never taboo. It's just that your ideas are consistently inane and not worth talking about.
They're definitely consistently odd , but sometimes they're interesting. You have to admit the place wouldn't be the same without amichail.
A friend of mine used to live in NY and he tells me how lots of people think that Giuliani, by fighting crime, ruined the city. By making the city safer, the residents had to start dealing with the influx of annoying tourists that they couldn't avoid, whereas once you learned where trouble was, you could just keep away.
Also, his argument is that the city lost lots of "colorful characters". People that were not exactly dangerous but were not exactly postal card-worthy. The city is just not the same without those weirdos, he said.
Perhaps that is the also the reason that my friend likes (Cambridge's) Central Square so much. Not a day goes by without some freaky (and usually funny) event close to the T.
The point is: amichail is a colorful character, yes, and the place wouldn't be the same without him. But does it necessarily mean that it would be worse?
Also, would you encourage "more amichails", or one is all we need?