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Show HN: Leanthingy.com - Rate Startup Ideas

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Lean Thingy - Helps you get fast feedback about your startup idea.

I hope this tool can help you determine whether to pursue or kill a startup idea quickly.

I started building it after a few startup idea posts on HN with 0 replies. I think of it as a hot or not for startup ideas.

I started on this two days ago - it's not 100% complete, but I wanted to start getting feedback as soon as possible.

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I Love the idea (it does sound familiar..), just a couple nitpicks:

1. Please don't make me sign in with Twitter. Not everyone has a twitter account and not everyone wants to give you access to theirs.

2. I'd like to be able to rate ideas right from the leaderboard. If i'm just browsing and i see an idea i think is excellent i'd want to be able to tell them that.

3. The design struck me as a generic blog design. I'm not sure exactly what it was, but it looked like a generic wordpress blog at first glance.

Other than that, i like it. Good luck!

Thanks for the comments.

Reason for Twitter: Wanted to get this up fast - Faster/Easier to confirm twitter account than build confirmation emails.

Leaderboard - Great idea - I'll add that in tonight.

Design - yes - in an effort to get this up quickly - I used a free html/css template I found online. It looks like crap.

This is a test to see if the idea is viable. If it is, I'll put more effort into making it look nice.

Cool. Inspired by the same reasons as you, I too was thinking of creating something like this but you've just beaten me to it. :-)

Now, my 0.02:

(There will be some duplication [read reconfirmation] of suggestions others have already made here and some new suggestions.)

1. Yes, don't force Twitter as the only sign-in option. (If you want, we can contribute a plug-n-play type e-mail authentication sub-system to save you the time and trouble - let me know.)

2. Create a separate (exclusive) page for each idea and allow people to post comments/replies.

3. Allow posters to (optionally) upload images/sketches to explain the idea better, faster. (Show such material on the exclusive page.)

4. Many idea posters would also be having a thread on the idea running at HN and/or other forums. Allow posters to (optionally) provide link/s to such URLs (as a separate field). This way, everybody can get an expanded view of all opinions about the idea.

-HTH

Great idea, few things as well.

1. Ability to vote from leader board

2. Only allow people to vote once (cookies/username)

3. Browse though a full list of ideas

4. Show comments for ideas.

Added voting on the leaderboard - thanks for the suggestion awfulcoder14 and silent1mezzo

I just posted our concept on your site: http://leanthingy.com/idea-spotbankscom

clickable: http://leanthingy.com/

I think the biggest issue is duplicate voting.

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