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Show HN: 1 week to crowdsource an idea, 1 week to make it

oneweektomake.com

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Hello! I made this site to help me get a project idea and then quickly create it.

In the past I worked inefficiently and in secrecy, and I never ended up launching anything. This project is about turning that around.

Anyone can post ideas anonymously and vote anonymously. The voting ends in less than a week, and then I have a week to build the most popular project.

I'm super nervous to be sharing this here, thank you for taking the time to check it out!

To author, nice app. You handled few of the edge cases for ideas submission. Kudos.

I think you should add email option where a subscriber can get a mail every day about the most upvoted ideas. This way it'll be more collaborative. You can open up a discord server where people can discuss all the submitted ideas.

Also you need to add spam protection when someone added an idea. I just added an idea with text: "BLA BLA....". Prevention from spam and Bot protection will helps.

Oh that was you! Haha well thank you for testing my site in good faith :)

I have a "gibberish detector" that is supposed to catch nonsense but I guess BLAH BLAH BLAH doesn't trip it.

I added an email input form to send the final results. A discord is a good idea, I'll add that today.

Thanks so much for your feedback

Awesome app! Constraining the time to 1 week makes users more interested. An MVP of anything can be built in ~4 days.

captcha is probably enough for spam control.

Posting it on /r/Crowdfunding might get more users.

I'd love to help when you're ready to build the first project :)

edit: If there aren't enough votes after a week, maybe try requiring some number of votes before the project gets built. 500? 10000? Something that will give enough time for the projects to get enough attention.

Thanks so much for the feedback!

Oh hey, this is kind of in a similar spirit to your prove they want it site! I like that your site actually requires some skin in the game.

I will post it on /r/crowdfunding, good idea!

And I'd love to work together :) can you please email me so we can talk more? pooria@hey.com

This should be a platform. The main problem is how to convince users to come and vote on projects. If you figure that out - you'll be a millionaire :)

One way might be through cryptocurrencies - users crowd-source the idea with money, then one or more developers submit MVP's, then users vote on those and the winner gets all the collected money, while users get the product they want. Sort of like improved Kickstarter.

Thanks, yeah while building it I had the same thought - I bet other people would like to have an easy way to run a time-limited "vote for what you want" event like this.

Your suggestion reminds me of the design companies where a bunch of designers submit work and then the top ones get paid. Am I understanding you right?

My main idea is that freelance sites are sort of broken: you pick a worker, he works on things for a while and then you see if he screwed up or not.

You can't really trust his profile. Reviews are also often inconclusive.

It would be better if you could submit a small milestone, let multiple people work on it and pick the best result. Then continue working with that developer.

And then this can be expanded into a platform where not only a single person can be an employer, but people can combine their funds to crowdsource various tasks. Good example would be open-source projects.

Oh, that's really good, starting with a small milestone that's a low risk commitment to both parties. Thanks for explaining. Do you mind if I add that to the site as a project idea so people can vote on it?

Of course not :)

This is such a great idea!

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