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Twtspire uses the twitter search api to find tweets with key phrases like "I wish there was a site that..."

Hopefully it'll help give an idea of some of the things that people actually want, and inspire a weekend project or two.

I would love to hear some feedback.

Great job. Could you perhaps add a feature where people could vote for a particular idea?

This could help those fishing for ideas get a feel of which are the ones which have a higher potential

What about a way to loop back, so when you make that sweet iOS app, @brenda25056 can know about it?

Had you seen http://twistori.com ?

That's really nice, I like it better than the OP's page.

Feature idea: Add a "This is a good idea" button so users can vote up uncommon and plausible ones.

Ok. I just implemented a quick and dirty voting mechanism that'll due for now.

It uses the reddit algorithm for calculating how "hot" a story is.

That was fun!

Great job! This could definitely be useful to find something people already want, especially if you could keep a tally of the most wished for ideas. What did you develop it in?

I also like the logo of the two birds talking. Did you make it yourself, or did you get it from somewhere?

One thing that I see could use a little improvement is the "next" and "previous" links. Right now they just blend in to the background. You should try making them stand out, and maybe make them look a bit more button-like. It would also be worth testing "next" and "previous" links on the top of the content.

I wish I had the design chops to create a graphic of that quality...

I got it from http://iconfinder.com/. You can find lots of great graphics there for free (don't forget to check the licenses).

I love this. They seem to fall into a few categories: Silly and impossible, "I want a website to take my boredom away," and the mildly disturbing. Oh, and some not horrible ideas. thumbs up

Nice project. What language did you use? Python, Php, Ruby? and what framework? I'm just curious :)

Good idea + looks great. I found a slight glitch and couldn't find a better way to contact you so here goes:

When I clicked like it went from a nice looking FB Like button to http://imgur.com/f5AID

Something I'd be very interested to see are the ideas that multiple people are asking for.

And then the next thing I would want is a fast way to throw up an ad for the app in question, just to see how many clicks it gets.

Cool idea!

If nothing else, some of the posts will make you laugh: "someone should make a site called wetpussies.org and upload nothing but videos/pictures of people giving their cat a bath. "

Great job, btw.

I read this as "twat spire" in en-GB: twat is a word somewhere between "pussy" and "cunt" in British English. Just FWIW. I guess you're not British?

It's like that in en-US too. I also read it as "twat spire" :)

Me too. I don't know if that means I have a dirty mind, or if I try to guess missing vowels in alphabetical order.