I would like to submit them somewhere and maybe someone likes it and wants to create it. Or maybe I could get input why it's a stupid idea or how to improve them.
It would be also nice to see others' fun ideas. Maybe find a collaborator to work on them together.
Are you aware of such a platform? If there is none, what do you think about the concept?
I will say that ideas are generally far less valuable than a first customer. My readers told me time and time again that they wanted to be connected to someone who would pay for the idea. That is the real challenge, and if you can figure that out, you're going to have a booming business. And I think there is opportunity in the space somewhere between e-lance and just "ideas". Some kind of platform that matches a developer and an initial customer in a way that rewards both. Finding these people is a challenge, but I think it's possible, and the person who figures out how to do it is going to have a MASSIVE business on their hands. I could go on about this a lot further, but I wholly recommend exploring it.
I'm onto my next project now, which interestingly is helping people find investing ideas. We launched yesterday so we'll see how it goes. If you want to chat about the idea space - cory @t topstonks.com or check out the the new project its at http://topstonks.com. Good luck!
"The Halfbakery is a communal database of original, fictitious inventions, edited by its users. It was created by people who like to speculate, both as a form of satire and as a form of creative expression." [1]
Someone pitches the core of an idea. The idea can be either serious or ridiculous, but they should always pitch it as if it were serious.
Then everybody else, one at a time, proposed amendments or amplifications. These too may be serious or ridiculous, but they must be done in a "yes and" [1] style. No criticism is allowed (although add-ons may of course address a perceived flaw.
Eventually, when the amendments stop coming, a brief discussion of the idea and related topics is allowed. When that runs down, start again.
It was a lot of fun. I stopped doing it for life-happens reasons, but I'd encourage anybody to pick it up and run with it. It might be possible to capture the spirit in a website as well. Feel free to email or tweet at me if I can be of service.
I wish there was a place/service that would connect businesses with real problems (that they either can't or would rather not solve in-house) with aspiring (tech) entrepreneurs. I'm sure there's a large number of such opportunities out there, probably in industries/domains most software devs don't have much experience in and wouldn't think to explore.
http://www.nateeag.com/software/ideas.html
I haven't tried to publicize it at all (well, until this post).
Start the list on a website somewhere, and if you want people to look at it, submit it to HN, Reddit, et al.
That should give you everything you need.
Not everything needs to be a platform.
A quote from my post on dev.to where it all started -
"A platform where people can express their app wishes (e.g. "I wish I had an app for X and Y") and vote up other people's great ideas.
Developers can use Appwish to keep track of the most wanted apps and features. They can assign themselves to projects, create dev teams and collaborate to fulfil people's needs.
In the future, the platform could also introduce elements of fund-raising or voluntary donations for the most appreciated developers and teams."
At the moment we are on stage of planning features/architecture and the development will start soon - we got frontend developers, backend devs, devops, a few designers and even mobile devs. + We were offered free hosting on one of startups offering managed Kubernetes clusters.
If anyone is interested, I can share our Slack channel/Github URL - we put everything in public anyways :)
Producthunt link instead of a direct one so you can check “related” as well.
My response is always, "so? Aren't those sites more for 'I wish this existed so I could be a customer' than 'I want to personally profit from this idea'?"
So, yeah, if you don't care about someone stealing it, you might be able to repurpose Kickstarter that way:
1) Start a KS for the idea.
2) Wait for someone to steal it.
3) Cancel and refund everyone's money.
In fact one of main drives to write for me is to spread ideas on other people so someone else works on them!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/steal-this-idea/id1472...
Recall the story of Bezos and his challenge to let customers order from Amazon "with a single click". His team's first prototype required twelve clicks. He sent them back to work, and the second prototype required two clicks. It's not a question of complexity, because ideas don't get any simpler than that.
Here's a take that looks into that question fairly: https://hbr.org/2005/04/the-half-truth-of-first-mover-advant...
Alot of people especially new developers are looking for project ideas; you can just put your ideas there and share the repository in /r/learnprogramming or similar subreddits.
I built https://egghead.space exeggdly for this - absolutely some pun intended ;)
Just look at this awesome idea: https://egghead.space/sketch/iKGw9vQ9Qmub39Djz1ZR/Fallout+4+...
I never managed to bring it beyond alpha stage though and no one ever used it.
Main problem for me was that I always got the feeling it looked just ugly. I'm not a designer, so that was really demotivating...
A live crowd-sourced collection of ideas for new apps & business ideas that have been requested by the internet. Sorted by Hot, Top and New. With upvotes and downvotes. To post your own idea use the hashtag #ideaMachine or click the "submit a new idea" button below.
(I'm not the owner, just share it here)
Could run into same issues as others, but right now looks to be focused on the light-hearted, fun aspect of idea generation and potential for sparking creativity. Unsure about the intent to start a sub community that is paid, don’t think this will be the long term winning approach.
https://twitter.com/anant90/status/1171867648285540352
Incidentally, "a platform for sharing well-researched ideas" is #11 on this list :)
Unfortunately there isn't a way to submit anything.
An obvious conclusion of this is that even though I think your "platform for sharing ideas" idea is bad, just execute it. :)
People who are technical and don’t have creativity to come up with new ideas should be employees, not creators. People who can come up with ideas but cannot manage need managers. All those who cannot come up with any of the above should be investors.
It is a cunning trick that I observed in the past decade in the start up scene. Instinctively I don’t trust anyone who says that ‘ideas are worthless’.
Perhaps this is the reason why many start ups fail. There is no creator or domain expert. I see that in Agtech. The best Agtech companies are those who have some connection to farming. A handful of them are technical.
Even those who are technical do not work in the field. It is the uneducated non technical Joses and Marias who are immigrant labour that do all the work that needs to be automated.
They are not technical. They barely know English. But by not including those who Agtech is seeking to replace with tech and robots at the table, they set themselves up for failure.
I have a small farm and a little technical, but Ag robotics is multiple platforms. As a small farm owner who also has to keep the farm financially solvent and someone who also does manual work that needs to be replaced, I can spot right away how many of the Agtech companies will fail. And most of them will fail. The ones that will make it are those who have someone in the team with in-field experience.
It’s this non technical team that will come up with the best ideas because they know where they need help desperately. This is also why Europe will likely succeed first in Agtech than America. Because they have technical expertise as well as the idea team.
I hope those who dismiss ideas will reconsider. An idea is like a possibility. There are many ways it can fail and a narrower path to succeed. Only the person who came up with the idea will know the limitations and by excluding them, the chances of failures are multiplied.
As an aside: YC is also guilty of this dismissive attitude. This is also why most start ups will fail. Failure is not necessarily a bad thing but failed start ups are graveyard of what may have succeeded. It’s an enormous waste of space and resources. The only upside is redistribution of capital and creation of jobs. Hence even failed start ups and bad ideas that get funding is not necessary a bad thing. If we don’t have jobs, I guess there won’t be a way to employ the hordes of STEM educated young people pouring out into the world as they come of age.
If you want a repository for good ideas, I think first you need to find a way to filter the bad ones.
Products I'd Pay For, 2020 Edition https://dmonn.ch/smb-2020/
I'm not the author.
Then why ask people here for ideas for a platform?
You are here because you couldn’t think of all possibilities yourself.
Ideas are the first step, without which everything that comes after, wouldn’t.
Start a web-ring?
569K Members: https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyIdeas/
The 1st one is pretty active in that you get feedback also from the community.
If your idea isn't good enough for you to work on it, why would it inspire anyone else?