I wrote this to a friend in 2022:

Here's an idea: reverse kickstarter

1. people post ideas

2. good ideas go viral

3. people pledge actual money to encourage someone to step forward and build it

4. interested creators make kickstarter type videos explaining their proposal for making the thing

5A. people vote on which proposal to accept, or maybe

5B. each backer can select a project to support

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Here steps 4 and 5 are replaced by Claude.

Cool idea!