[netmau5]

Speaking of sharing ideas, I'd love to get some feedback from you guys on a recent side-project I developed at http://thesparkfoundry.com . The premise is that you sign up for various mailing lists for voting on ideas and entrepreneurs can access those lists by agreeing to build them (http://www.sparkmuse.com/foundry/howitworks). Highly voted ideas would then be attractive to a developer as you'd get a built-in pool of potential beta subscribers or people willing to give feedback. Unfortunately I never had the time to fully promote it, but it was fun to build.

[Joakal]

Looks pretty interesting, even one of them had my Trust API idea I had but dropped. You have stiff competition from half bakery and several idea websites out there though.

However I see it inherently flawed like the other idea websites:

1. Visitors tend to be idea people only and not really potential customers.

2. There is no clear promotion plan either except for 'build it and they'll come'. Ideas people see very little benefit because there's no user base, there's no user base because there's little benefit (chicken and egg problem).

3. All ideas are given weight equally. If I propose a flying car, that's great, everyone wants it but no one will want to take on such a risky idea. More: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Balance_fallacy

Look at Kickstarter; they have their users advertising projects and acting on them after the site got some momentum.

Needs improvement and change of current priorities.