| > But it is more heartbreaking than your girl dumping you, that someone else has already built your idea/product. This is the kind of mentality that makes people deservedly dislike and mock tech bros. You’re tacitly admitting you don’t even care about the product or idea, you only care if you specifically can profit from it. And that if you can’t, it affects you on a deeper emotional level (heartbreak) than actual human connection. > Or even worse is that the product you want to build cannot be a real business. Oh, the humanity! You want to make something for the sole purpose of making money and no one wants to give you money for it. The horror! The injustice! You could, you know, try to make something you want to use, or that is helpful to your family/friends/community. Something whose success if defined by any metric other than money. > That is why I have made a portal But chose not to link to it? > where a user has to enter their product idea and then (…) As another commenter has pointed out, this really sounds like you’re trying to steal ideas. > Will just collect their emails and hopefully build a newsletter. Yeah, no. No one wants to be signed up to a random newsletter. Collecting emails and using them in this manner without consent is the fast lane to be fined under the GDPR. That again just sounds like you’re trying to throw anything at the wall to profit later. |