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Show HN: UpSwell – Join the crowd and tell the world what you want to exist

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Hi, I'm David, one of the co-founders of UpSwell.

We're trying to build a social-platform where individuals can coalesce into groups to indicate what they want to exist in the world. In doing so, we're hoping to create ways for the crowd to speak with a single voice to companies, organization, governments -- even individual people -- about what it is the group would like to see exist.

I'd love any feedback, good or bad, that might help us improve the site and the idea.

Really like the Upswell idea! Awesome agent for change on so many levels. Big potential. Any plans to organize the ideas into categories? Would make them easier to navigate and allow users to focus on topics/areas of personal interest. Good luck!

Thanks for your kind words! We're hoping the site can be a place where the voice of many individuals can be aggregated into a single voice (in many instances) to improve anything and everything around us.

Great site! Really cool way to crowd source. How do companies find posts on UpSwell?

We're working on improving that functionality, but currently the easiest way is to search for them. For example, this search will show you ideas related to Apple: https://www.theupswell.com/search?q=apple

In the future, we're going to make this more overt so that both consumers and organizations can better organize and digest ideas.

Great to see UpSwell on hacker news. David, what features are you looking to add next?

Thanks for your comments - we've got a pretty good foundation when it comes to "social" functionality, but we have more work to do there. Specifically, it needs to be easier to find people you know on the site, and our commenting system needs to be enhanced. On top of that, we're working to improve ways to discover good ideas on the site. For example, one highly requested feature is to be able to rank ideas by the number of MeToo's (as opposed to creation date). Last but not least, we're actively working on features to allow people to connect their UpSwells to the organizations/people who will be able to implement them. This is perhaps one of the more exciting features of UpSwell: to provide a platform to discover the best ideas, and then connect those with people who could bring them to life.

I really liked this site!

Thanks for your feedback. Let me know if you sign-up and I'll give you a follow on the site.

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