[adrianwaj]

How about a way to signup without Google or LinkedIn? Maybe HN-linked profiles?

Also, I think a domain-name section is a good idea. Some ideas/projects may have them and some won't. Some people may have unused ones to offer. Others may see a domain name and get ideas just from seeing it.

Also, unused social handles would be interesting.

[itsmechase]

Thanks for the feedback! HN-linked profiles would be really interesting. Let me think about that one.

Domain-name is also interesting. So essentially a hub where people who have a great domain name but haven't started building anything with it yet?

[adrianwaj]

yeah - for example, I've got tinkeriDOTng and left some comments about it...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777609 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879268 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47685678

I don't even mind redirecting to the site if it helps - that would prove that I actually owned it.

Another idea would be to have pledging.. people send crypto to an address and if a certain amount is reached, it is released to the owner. Well, maybe that is too complex/risky.. and too similar to crowdfunding, so just have people enter an amount, but don't make it binding. That would be good for people who want to jam, but have little to offer except for $.

I think a lot of altcoin owners would contribute to an ecosystem if they thought it'd help their position. So put a large disclaimer that any funds sent are ultimately entirely at the sender's risk - they may get/see nothing in return. Reputation-building and transparency is important here - but a crypto address could be monitored. One problem is people sending funds to themselves.

see: https://www.mysociety.org/2015/02/24/the-story-of-pledgebank...

"Jam pledges and donations" could begin well but end up enshi##ified with scams eventually - even by users who build themselves up to be legit... until their very last project when they bail early with funds. At least with crypto, funds can be returned efficiently. That's important too.

Best of luck with it all regardless.

[itsmechase]

Yeah crypto is a slippery slope. I really do appreciate the ideas. If anything else comes to mind, please let me know. I am considering everything.

[adrianwaj]

Speaking of tinkering, you could have a builds/devices/setups section, with each containing multiple constituent parts (as ingredients) with their being a corresponding recipe for each. So users would be "cataloging their builds."

This is what is lacking here: https://clz.com/ but I think https://hackaday.io already does what I am talking about - a "Github for inventions."

You are welcome to use my domain for that too, but will people go to all the effort to upload their builds? What is the return? Are there IP or safety issues?

Perhaps you could focus on computers, and make it a help/troubleshooting destination, and way for people to be able to recycle things or look to that goal.

Solar and DIY energy builds is another large area. Could also focus on selling or affiliate commissions.

Maybe have a way for the site to load up with data using text files that people can either upload or keep on their own server. So there should be some type of syntax. Laboriously filling out fields is a time-sink in my view. Even signing-up can be seen as a pain. So local-first data entry with a little syncing app that gets the site to come and collect locally whenever its pinged is the goal.

CLZ has syncing with barcode scanning: https://gemini.google.com/share/b7ce6f31fe12

Maybe a way for users to also download the entire site for off-line browsing? Is there a need for that? Keeping the entire site off-line would be interesting in the age of AI vacuum cleaners. "Group Sync" for all the text-content.

Also, see my recent comment about meetups. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48259386 - Park Jams?