Ask HN:Do you care for ideas or They are dirt cheap to care
1. Use HN as a medium to validate thoughts and ideas
HN is so unique that, every/wanna be entreprenuer is a member. These are people who think about creating something and has a mindset of their own. This makes HN ideal platform for ideating and validation. Ofcource PG and ex YC adds view points which can sometime be critically helpfull. I was thinking of developing the ideas into full blown business with the help of HN.
2. Inspire others to share their ideas.
Again, more ideas, helps to develop better ideas. It is like solving the microsoft interview puzzles. At first they will look difficult. Spend couple of days with few of them and you slowly start to think in the right direction. Your mind will get completely trained to think to get the solutions. Hence learning the ideas/thoughts from others will help to build new one. I stronly believe that, if someone can work on a skill, it will improve over a period of time.
3. Mearly to get a more stimulating discussion experience.
Unfortunately HN is the only of its kind in attracting the best minds. A discussion with such a culturly/demographically diversified, talented, people is something i long for.
4. I am not going to work on all the ideas I get. At the end i need one idea for myself. If somebody feels it is good, they will implement it. Rather than dieing, some of these ideas will see some light. This will give me the satisfaction of "Yeah I thought about it some time back" feeling. Also help the entreprenuer eco system more strong.
But unfortunately i never got any valid response or feedback. Leave about anything constructive, i didnt even got a comment which says, this thought sucks (or May be you guys were being nice to me). Or is it that, the number of posts in HN is soo high, it is difficult to get the attention. If so, HN is starting to fail as a place to get feedback and should provide a way to resolve this. Or is it that, you guys think sharing your thoughts/ideas are worth millions.
Help me understand this? Do you think We can use HN as a medium to validate ideas or do you think any idea is cheap ?
Note: - I do got few responses from Tutorspree team on my ideas related to their product though.