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by leobg 1394 days ago
I like your project. And your domain name. Very similar, indeed.

Are these real suggestions that are posted on the site? Like from the photographer wanting a solution to quickly share photos right from his DSLR? Because that's great stuff. Actual users describing problems they need solved.

I would imagine that, most of the time, people don't even realize that there is a better way. Hence they're often not actively hunting for a solution, or able to even just describe how a potential solution could look like.

If you, during a weekend, got several strangers to post such detailed requirements, I'd love to hear how you did it.

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I posted a few of them to show the flow and not be an empty website and then it was people on the stream going in with their ideas. I was looking into parsing reddit like r/SomebodyMakeThis, twitter and keep on doing some streams picking stuff from the ideas in there to promote its use but you know life happened and it got put on the side lines. The hardest criticism I received is "why would I give my idea to someone else, they may make millions out of it" which is not a big problem in my book, as I have way more ideas and problems than time to build solutions for them, but this might be the biggest pushback I received.

The plan was to let ideas float around, let people discuss and gather around, maybe mark that they would be willing to pay for a solution. When an entrepreneur or company comes along and want to tackle the problem, we can link people with the problem with the people building the solution, which in my experience was the hardest part of starting a project.