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by blauditore 3465 days ago
Ideas themselves should not be overrated. People often think the main part of building a successful product is having the right idea, and expect some form of compensation for submitting a good one. But as a matter of fact, if there is a problem to solve, many others have probably had similar ideas and the difference will be made in their implementations.

So the "compensation" of ideas with other ideas like here seems perfectly reasonable to me and should not be extended or gamified any further.

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Yep, it is the execution of the idea where the money is. Most well known products are simple to explain / understand, but it was their implementation and ability to retain users on their platform that make them successful.