ya, a way to submit feedback/comments might be a good idea. I just submitted an idea, and immediately was wondering how I would be able to engage with the people who voted (or didnt)
First, thank you for trying it out and for submitting an idea. That's super cool.
With regards to engaging with users:
In the current design, the first two levels of interest that a user may show on your idea do not include sharing any contact information. Namely upvoting an idea, and signing up for updates. A user has to support your idea on level 3 ("share contact info with the project owner") or level 4 ("share your use case") in order for you to actually get their contact info.
For now, if you go to your "ideas" section, you'll already see the count of each level of support your idea got (upvoted, subscribed to updates, shared contact info, filled out questionaire).
The ability to actually send out an update to the users that requested it is actually still missing. Same goes for accessing the contact info of the users who shared it with you, and for accessing the info they shared with you when they filled out the questionaire. I didn't know if this Show HN was going to go anywhere. But I'm going to add these features. These contacts are yours. And they have entrusted me with forwarding their request to you.
I was thinking more along the lines of a public dialog, where a user could post a comment like "This is a great idea! However, if you could make it do X and Y, it would be even better!"
Getting access to people's contact information would be useful at a later point in the process, but early on I think immediate feedback would be the most beneficial. Even something along the lines of a HN thread like this one would be enough engagement at first. In fact, perhaps that is even sufficient :)
leobg|3 years ago
With regards to engaging with users:
In the current design, the first two levels of interest that a user may show on your idea do not include sharing any contact information. Namely upvoting an idea, and signing up for updates. A user has to support your idea on level 3 ("share contact info with the project owner") or level 4 ("share your use case") in order for you to actually get their contact info.
For now, if you go to your "ideas" section, you'll already see the count of each level of support your idea got (upvoted, subscribed to updates, shared contact info, filled out questionaire).
The ability to actually send out an update to the users that requested it is actually still missing. Same goes for accessing the contact info of the users who shared it with you, and for accessing the info they shared with you when they filled out the questionaire. I didn't know if this Show HN was going to go anywhere. But I'm going to add these features. These contacts are yours. And they have entrusted me with forwarding their request to you.
senecaso|3 years ago
Getting access to people's contact information would be useful at a later point in the process, but early on I think immediate feedback would be the most beneficial. Even something along the lines of a HN thread like this one would be enough engagement at first. In fact, perhaps that is even sufficient :)