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I searched http://hunch.com and the 'launch' news comes up first, otherwise I like it. Nice job for a couple nights. I did one of those once, Free Ideas, http://insidepeace.com (now down), and I still get inquiries from designers who want to give me 5% for nothing. Best of luck to you, though, tao.


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Check out how http://hunch.com gets people involved, there are some good lessons there.

I often go to https://www.indiehackers.com/products. Sometimes I feel inspired by new projects. Note that it’s just a way to find ideas, not one to know if this idea will work or not :)

When he said the ideas were hidden (and before I realized you just refresh the homepage), I just started trying random urls. This was my favorite:

http://www.badstartupidea.com/no-satisfaction


I do this too, but the larger issue I face is that none of my ideas are even the slightest bit marketable.

I suppose I naturally gravitate to problem domains with little market potential. I don't know why.

I go into more detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31217221


I did go down this path with http://www.errorlevelanalysis.com/, hoping that the development time would pay off and bring in future work. So far it's just been a tool that reddit and 4chan use to spur on comment wars.

Building something cool that has actual utility to someone, may be a better strategy.


There is http://firespotting.com/, which brand itself as "HN for ideas", but it's not as active as HN.

First idea I opened actually got implemented: https://www.halfbakery.com/idea/anti_20enron_20policy#108023...

There is a HN for ideas at http://firespotting.com

This one raises some eyebrows (a marketplace for prayers, where you can pay people to pray for you): http://ideamarket.com/details.html?project_id=62838791408189...

I signed up because, hey I'm curious. But ...

It's hard not to think of this: http://mashable.com/2012/10/17/color-shuts-down/#

High-concept stuff doesn't seem to fair well, the small and growing always seems to do a lot better. That said good luck to them.


There was also http://www.blogbinders.com/ that made a go at the same idea ~8 years ago. Sadly they didn't survive.

> "the ideas look good"

Clicked the link, didn't see any ideas. Bounced.


I stalked the website's author a little bit: - rsms on Github, twitter, flickr, facebook… - http://hunch.se/

And this rasmusfabbe is developping Kod: - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHUp3sdKYJw (a cool idea on grouping documents by Levenstein distance)

I do wish people would get used to (dis)claiming when they have a stake in some product they comment on.


For what it's worth, I liked the article and the idea of client-side real time balancing presented in the article when you submitted it.

Something similar happened when I launched http://hnnotify.com -- got 24 up votes and then it crawled into oblivion <shrug>


http://jacquesmattheij.com/Idea+Dump+March+2011+Edition

#79

Cool!

Maybe when color finally goes bust they can get the domain, it seems like a much more useful application for such a domain.


This a brand new concept and Im encouraged by the following articles...

http://tinyurl.com/3xk392 http://krisabel.ctv.ca/blog/CoolLinks/_archives/2007/12/12/3... http://tinyurl.com/3yzeo9 (translated from French)

Also, Sleep.FM was chosen as a TechCrunch40 semi-finalist, chosen to present alongside Google, Microsoft and Facebook at NY Tech MeetUp, landing on Engadget.com (the readers comments do not all mirror comments here) and other encouraging things!

Again, i was just politely posting for a UI designer who maybe available and interested.


I’m going to say I called this one at least 8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23419270

Loon is not competitive in a world with Starlink (even without Starlink it seems).

The business didn’t make strategic sense.

I still really liked their original goal of loon for all and the first video they made for it: https://youtu.be/m96tYpEk1Ao

It’s a little sad they had to downsize and give up. I guess Licklider was right to title the original internet paper an “intergalactic computer network”.

Musk started with interplanetary goals and he’ll at least end up with one that covers the earth.

Loon for all started too small.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergalactic_Computer_Network

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Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23419880

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25601473


"Up For Grabs"[0] was posted on HN a while and it seems like a cool idea, but doesn't seem to have a ton of traction.

[0] http://up-for-grabs.net/


Considering the actual name of their project is his exact blog URL [1], I can't imagine they looked that hard to see if anyone else had the idea first.

[1] http://aroundtheworldin80jobs.com/

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