How about submitting it to this site with the prefix [IDEA]? Mailing lists commonly use [ANN] prefixes for new announcements. There is no reason we can't use something similar. For example:
I think this is Ok, except some improvement is needed on news.yc. Comments should somehow affect the rank of a post. And it's not the number of comments that matters, but rather the number of people involved, possibly taking into account their karmas.
And of course this should be recursive and should be applied to comments themselves (subcomments affect the comment).
Working on something like this right now, kind of a jobs/talent thing. Thought it might be useful.
Will post when I've got something worth looking at (this week)
Planning on making it kind of an 'Ideas wanted' or 'People wanted' or 'Money wanted' site, so people can interface. Putting my money where my mouth is with some distributed karma systems as well.
Guys, I'm building a collaboration application called Wamily that would be perfect for this. I just set up a group for this purpose. It has a wiki, and threaded conversations, and eventually more tools.
Sign up at http://wamily.com with invite code ZMYWVX and you will automatically be added to the group
Saw this the other day. Pretty similar to an idea I presented to PG way back when. I still have PG's whiteboard post: "but some startup ideas need be kept secret"
It looks like there are several different users who want to build this (or something similar).
I definitely think collaboration would work best - if the site is going to be used by the community it needs all of our support. It can't be a one man show.
Personally, I envision a site with several different tools: idea feedback, find cofounders, find shared office space, demo new apps, a how-to resource archive, wiki, etc.
I think one News.YC reader has already built a site that can be used to find cofounders. Jamie, Sumon and Timmmah built a site to demo apps (demomyapp.com). Justin is building a basic idea feedback site. John Leung is trying to organize a shared office/startup hub website. I'm building a resource archive.
What if we all collaborated on one site that did it all?
Funny, because I just registered a domain for something like that, ideasbin.com, one day before this thread started. It was a direct inspiration by YC, too: since everybody keeps going on about ideas being worthless, why not "throw away" your idea? It could also be a place to mourn your ideas that you'll never make come true.
My plan was to start simple, though (perhaps reddit style ideas submission, a wiki page for the idea, 'social net' in that people can collect their favorite ideas). Seeing the ideas taking form here, I guess ideasbin would not be too successful (should have picked a more serious domain name).
But anyway, in general I am interested to work on this, although actual time available might be limited. Email in my profile.
[+] [-] waleedka|19 years ago|reply
[IDEA] A web site for sharing startup ideas.
[STARTUP] www.shareyourstartupidea.com. Comments welcome.
[+] [-] mojuba|19 years ago|reply
And of course this should be recursive and should be applied to comments themselves (subcomments affect the comment).
[+] [-] mojuba|19 years ago|reply
(2) If I have an idea but I'd like to "check the waters" before implementing it.
(3) Any brainstorming.
Most of us shouldn't be afraid of sharing ideas openly, because the value of what we do mostly is in how we do it.
[+] [-] ido|19 years ago|reply
[+] [-] jaggederest|19 years ago|reply
Will post when I've got something worth looking at (this week)
Planning on making it kind of an 'Ideas wanted' or 'People wanted' or 'Money wanted' site, so people can interface. Putting my money where my mouth is with some distributed karma systems as well.
[+] [-] jaggederest|19 years ago|reply
[+] [-] wammin|19 years ago|reply
Sign up at http://wamily.com with invite code ZMYWVX and you will automatically be added to the group
[+] [-] jward|19 years ago|reply
http://www.cambrianhouse.com/
[+] [-] plusbryan|19 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] omouse|19 years ago|reply
I may have some free time in a few months if anyone wants to team up and build it :P
[+] [-] Sam_Odio|19 years ago|reply
I definitely think collaboration would work best - if the site is going to be used by the community it needs all of our support. It can't be a one man show.
Personally, I envision a site with several different tools: idea feedback, find cofounders, find shared office space, demo new apps, a how-to resource archive, wiki, etc.
I think one News.YC reader has already built a site that can be used to find cofounders. Jamie, Sumon and Timmmah built a site to demo apps (demomyapp.com). Justin is building a basic idea feedback site. John Leung is trying to organize a shared office/startup hub website. I'm building a resource archive.
What if we all collaborated on one site that did it all?
[+] [-] Tichy|19 years ago|reply
My plan was to start simple, though (perhaps reddit style ideas submission, a wiki page for the idea, 'social net' in that people can collect their favorite ideas). Seeing the ideas taking form here, I guess ideasbin would not be too successful (should have picked a more serious domain name).
But anyway, in general I am interested to work on this, although actual time available might be limited. Email in my profile.
[+] [-] maurycy|19 years ago|reply
With all problems mentioned here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=16270
[+] [-] davidw|19 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] Readmore|19 years ago|reply