Show HN: Leanthingy.com - Rate Startup Ideas

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2338332

by rcavezza • 15 years ago

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Lean Thingy - Helps you get fast feedback about your startup idea.

I hope this tool can help you determine whether to pursue or kill a startup idea quickly.

I started building it after a few startup idea posts on HN with 0 replies. I think of it as a hot or not for startup ideas.

I started on this two days ago - it's not 100% complete, but I wanted to start getting feedback as soon as possible.

awfulcoder142• 15 years ago

clickable: http://leanthingy.com/

awfulcoder142• 15 years ago

I Love the idea (it does sound familiar..), just a couple nitpicks:

1. Please don't make me sign in with Twitter. Not everyone has a twitter account and not everyone wants to give you access to theirs.

2. I'd like to be able to rate ideas right from the leaderboard. If i'm just browsing and i see an idea i think is excellent i'd want to be able to tell them that.

3. The design struck me as a generic blog design. I'm not sure exactly what it was, but it looked like a generic wordpress blog at first glance.

Other than that, i like it. Good luck!

rcavezza2• 15 years ago

Thanks for the comments.

Reason for Twitter: Wanted to get this up fast - Faster/Easier to confirm twitter account than build confirmation emails.

Leaderboard - Great idea - I'll add that in tonight.

Design - yes - in an effort to get this up quickly - I used a free html/css template I found online. It looks like crap.

This is a test to see if the idea is viable. If it is, I'll put more effort into making it look nice.

silent1mezzo2• 15 years ago

Great idea, few things as well.

1. Ability to vote from leader board

2. Only allow people to vote once (cookies/username)

3. Browse though a full list of ideas

4. Show comments for ideas.

rcavezza2• 15 years ago

Added voting on the leaderboard - thanks for the suggestion awfulcoder14 and silent1mezzo

JoshKalkbrenner• 15 years ago

I just posted our concept on your site: http://leanthingy.com/idea-spotbankscom

sagacity• 15 years ago

Cool. Inspired by the same reasons as you, I too was thinking of creating something like this but you've just beaten me to it. :-)

Now, my 0.02:

(There will be some duplication [read reconfirmation] of suggestions others have already made here and some new suggestions.)

1. Yes, don't force Twitter as the only sign-in option. (If you want, we can contribute a plug-n-play type e-mail authentication sub-system to save you the time and trouble - let me know.)

2. Create a separate (exclusive) page for each idea and allow people to post comments/replies.

3. Allow posters to (optionally) upload images/sketches to explain the idea better, faster. (Show such material on the exclusive page.)

4. Many idea posters would also be having a thread on the idea running at HN and/or other forums. Allow posters to (optionally) provide link/s to such URLs (as a separate field). This way, everybody can get an expanded view of all opinions about the idea.

-HTH

silent1mezzo2• 15 years ago

I think the biggest issue is duplicate voting.

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