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Show HN: Mimosa – Collaborative brainstorming with AI suggestions

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Hello friends! We've been working hard on building Mimosa, and would love for you to try it! No signups required.

Facilitating brainstorming sessions can be a challenging and time-consuming task. It's difficult to keep everyone on agenda, engaged, and contributing. So we've built Mimosa to be the easiest way to facilitate a brainstorming session.

Imagine if a "digital whiteboard" and a "trello board" had a baby, but built with all the best practices of professional facilitation. With Mimosa, you can minimize bias by allowing team members to contribute anonymously before revealing their ideas. This ensures that everyone has a fair chance to share their thoughts and ideas without fear of judgment.

Once the brainstorming session is complete, you can easily view and export the final results. This allows you to keep track of a meeting's effectiveness and share it with stakeholders.

But the real game-changer is our AI Brainstorming features and it's ability to turn your 1x team into a 10x team. It help generates and collaborates with you in your brainstorming session to help you come up with more and better ideas.

We're both scared and excited to hear all your thoughts, HN! :) Please do let us know any features or improvements you think we should make to help you in your meetings.

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I put in "How can we become 20% more efficient", seeded a few mediocre ideas, and started hitting the AI button. This is what we've got (I'm going to get promoted to Director for sure!):

* Get interns to fix all the tech debt

* Hire an Agile consultant

* Have a big party to celebrate meeting deadlines

* Fire a whole bunch of people

* Write a letter to your employees to complain about how hard you work (go viral!)

* Write another letter to your employees to complain about how hard you work (go viral!)

* Move all the servers to the cloud

* Bring all the servers to your house and connect them to a home server

* Use more Microsoft products

* Hold all-hands meetings to complain about how hard you work

* Go golfing and then complain that you're too busy to get your work done

* Outsource to India

* Work through the weekend

* Force everybody into the office

* Ignore the problem, find a way to blame the other departments, this is the way it's always been done, it must be their fault

* Put monitors on the wall to check how fast we are

* Spend more on the Scrum Master

* No-meetings weeks

* Lead by example, work harder than your team

* Work harder, longer and smarter

* Take a big stack of papers home to read over the weekend

* Open a free drinks bar in the office

* Make a big production of telling your boss that you're too busy to work late

* Re-write the backend in Ruby using Rails

* Get a lucrative job offer from Google

* Convince your wife to let you build a data center in the shed

These made me laugh so much.

Congrats on releasing this! Really cool idea. Here's a test: https://mimosa.so/b/B35rtAHNx21lJWtgUSEnT

edit: I think I was the admin? so others may not have had the same experience I did?

I'm curious what ideas/method this is inspired by, It seems kind of similar to ThoughtExchange, there's a book called scaling conversations. I really wanted a tool like this.

I did not get good ideas from the AI yet, but may not have used it well. But the rest of it I really like. I'll keep an eye on this.

Looks nice, but I don't understand how brainstorming should work together with AI. Maybe it's more useful later on while categorizing? I noticed this also in the promo for Notion AI. How is the command „Brainstorm 5 ways to …“ still brainstorming? Does anyone already use AI for creative thinking and can give insights in which cases it's useful?

i often log in to ChatGPT to come up with a few examples of something.

e.g. the other day i looked for "technical words where their colloquial meaning has superseded their technical meaning" and it came up with acceptable examples like "bug" "hack" and a few others. i wasn't looking for those exact words in particular but i could have worked with it to come up with more examples from other domains easily.

These "tip of my tongue" requests work well, because GPT's weakness – making nonfactual stuff up – doesn't matter much, since as user you easily spot and ignore the false results.

Why anonymous voting?

Having a good "take" is something people like

If the idea turned out to be good they'd want some credit

But bad takes could be shameful so maybe you're right there

We actually do agree! Voting and contributing is only anonymous at first to prevent being biased by people who are more senior or opinionated on the team. So that everyone is an individual thinker. Afterwards the voting/contributing session, the results are revealed to show who contributed to what so you can then discuss as a team and see each others opinions.

The name makes me chuckle!

Thank you :) we wanted to keep things fun

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