Ask HN: Do you feel a need for reviewmyidea.com?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1108030

by alexk • 16 years ago

3 6 16 years ago

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There are lot's of ideas flying in the air, do you need a feel of a service that will help you to get a feedback on your idea before diving in?

jheriko• 16 years ago

Sounds like a good idea in principle, but what would prevent it from becoming "stealmyidea.com"?

alexk• 16 years ago

Well, I would not fear that my idea would be stolen, in fact ideas are cheap ( http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html )

skennedy• 16 years ago

Ideas are rarely unique anymore. The real question is can you turn a profit? If yes, what hurtles are in place that stopped other people from already doing it? If this site helps gauge the business impact of an idea, great. Sharing the solutions to implement the idea, well that would be silly.

pizza• 16 years ago

Remember, execution > idea

petercooper• 16 years ago

People are inadvertently "stealing" each other's ideas all the time. For example, Seth Godin's idea from yesterday about live presentation construction software for the iPad. I tweeted the same idea during the iPad keynote but there's no way he "stole" it from me. Ideas simultaneously spring up everywhere because we're all having similar/related experiences and our minds aren't that different.

miccotech• 16 years ago

CambrianHouse did this for a while and had a very vibrant community. They shut down and became VenCorps because they felt like nothing was actually getting accomplished.

Ask HN: Do you feel a need for reviewmyidea.com?

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