[IDEA] A web site for sharing startup ideas.
[STARTUP] www.shareyourstartupidea.com. Comments welcome.
And of course this should be recursive and should be applied to comments themselves (subcomments affect the comment).
(2) If I have an idea but I'd like to "check the waters" before implementing it.
(3) Any brainstorming.
Most of us shouldn't be afraid of sharing ideas openly, because the value of what we do mostly is in how we do it.
It was trying to do a lot of what's being described here.
I also tried to do something similar back in the day, a kind of "human capital investment group."
What any "group" that gets together like this will inevitably find is, 99% of people, or more, will just want to put up ideas. The people who would actually implement them (like myself and other entreprehackers on here), already have way to many ideas of their own that they don't have enough time to pursue.
it was kind of like what's being described in this thread.
the difference was that the creators wanted to somehow compensate (with stock) both all of the people who submitted ideas / feedback.
you can't do that though without coming very very near to violating SEC regulations. (Agloco will surely run into this issue as well)
Net result: The Business Experiment had a hard time finding anyone to actually code up the ideas.
While their first idea was still in development, a competitor came out that totally demolished their potential app's functionality.
The idea was something like Google Answers meets Wisdom of Crowds.
Also, we need some way to search only 'idea' posts. Perhaps if news.yc had tags that would suffice, but otherwise this may deserve a different namespace. Not something one reads everyday but more of a tool to submit or search for ideas.
Will post when I've got something worth looking at (this week)
Planning on making it kind of an 'Ideas wanted' or 'People wanted' or 'Money wanted' site, so people can interface. Putting my money where my mouth is with some distributed karma systems as well.
Heh. I'm a bit amped.
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I have a problem with this - why? And is there a good litmus test?
I may have some free time in a few months if anyone wants to team up and build it :P
I definitely think collaboration would work best - if the site is going to be used by the community it needs all of our support. It can't be a one man show.
Personally, I envision a site with several different tools: idea feedback, find cofounders, find shared office space, demo new apps, a how-to resource archive, wiki, etc.
I think one News.YC reader has already built a site that can be used to find cofounders. Jamie, Sumon and Timmmah built a site to demo apps (demomyapp.com). Justin is building a basic idea feedback site. John Leung is trying to organize a shared office/startup hub website. I'm building a resource archive.
What if we all collaborated on one site that did it all?
My email's omouse@gmail.com and my name's Rudolf.
Kind of like google accounts w/ google/gmail/google analytics/etc.
My plan was to start simple, though (perhaps reddit style ideas submission, a wiki page for the idea, 'social net' in that people can collect their favorite ideas). Seeing the ideas taking form here, I guess ideasbin would not be too successful (should have picked a more serious domain name).
But anyway, in general I am interested to work on this, although actual time available might be limited. Email in my profile.
With all problems mentioned here: