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by jonpaul 5784 days ago
I want to build a website that can help you visualize your impact upon the world. It can be summed up by calling it Pay-It-Forward for books. It's called MindSpread.

In essence you buy a book and give it to someone else on the promise that they will give it another person and so-forth. Each person can input the email address of the person they gave it to. A Google map would track the book, thus allowing the person to visualize their impact.

I wrote about it here: http://techneur.com/post/635311152/announcing-mindspread

Why a person would use it: http://techneur.com/post/915916816/what-would-motivate-you-t...

It would be 100% open-source and community driven. However, I think it's a great idea, but I'm not sure that others do because I have solicited for feedback and have received little.

I can't afford the conference because I'm trying to save every penny in attempt to someday bootstrap my company.

Thanks for your consideration. Also, I would love it if anyone else had feedback on MindSpread.

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Submit it as a separate post to HN, with a catchy title and try to catch people's attention. That is, if you haven't done that already.