Ask HN: review my site: somebodybuildthis.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1667173

by awfulcoder14 • 16 years ago

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After lurking on hn for a while, i decided to make my dream site exist, so here it is-- a site where people can post their ideas and have people with time build them.

I'd appreciate any feedback or criticism, thanks!

michael_dorfman• 16 years ago

The structure and layout look nice, but you need to seed the site with more content. I'd suggest that you use a bunch of friends to start with, and go from there.

user242• 16 years ago

clickable: http://somebodybuildthis.com

umenline• 16 years ago

make email for idea updates for users

user242• 16 years ago

Nice idea (heh), maybe pinch some top-rated ideas from http://halfbakery.com (with attribution) to kick things off a bit.

exline• 16 years ago

The layout could use a bit more work. There is a lot of wasted space on a wide browser and the main body hides if I shrink my browser window to much.

I registered for an account, but it didn't not automatically log me in. Not a huge deal, but little things add up. Then after I logged in, it kept me on the login page. You should redirect to the home page.

I like the idea. I think there have a been a number of posts both here at HN and other places basically saying, here is an idea for someone, or someone solve my problem. I would find those and use that to help populate it.

One feature/benefit that would be useful is to find how who liked/wanted the idea. Perhaps there needs to be 2 types of voting. 1 vote is 'that is a cool idea' the second is 'I would buy this now if it existed'. The second feedback is much more valuable than the first.

awfulcoder142• 16 years ago

Sorry about the signup and display- i'll fix those immediately.

Great idea for multiple voting too.

Thanks :-)

crazydiamond• 16 years ago

Good idea. Would it not make sense to have them categorized by language. I would really like to know what requires to be done in my language of choice.

I actually have a lot of time, and have been working on open source projects that people liked but no one seems to actually need, so this really would be helpful for me.

awfulcoder142• 16 years ago

I like that idea(heh), maybe in addition to categories? So you could select "View all tools in python" or "View all apps in javascript" or just "View all apps"/"View all ruby".

Thanks for the review.

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