Petridish.org
Web and SaaS
crowdfunding platform
SHOW HN2012
How HN took it
3 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score +0.09.
Idea: 2 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Exposes non-scientists to the thinking-up-experiments phase of research
From 1 comment
My favorite thing about this is how it exposes non-scientists to the first (and IMHO most exciting and least appreciated) phase of research - thinking up experiments.
wgrover on HN
Good luck wishes and interest in following the project
From 2 comments
Wow, best of luck! It'll be hard to compete with VCs, but if you're a scientist you speak a language that isn't easy to learn. That could be a deciding advantage.
possibilistic on HNAwesome idea, I'll be watching it for interesting projects.
davedx on HN
Objections
Risk of research ideas being scooped when publicly posted
From 1 comment
It also exposes your research plan to other scientists when your work is at a stage where it's the easiest to be scooped. I have a science project idea to be crowdfunded, but I'm…
cing on HN
Concern about vetting out pseudo-science projects
From 1 comment
Are the various proposed projects vetted at all? This seems like the sort of thing that would result in lots of pseudo science getting funded or is it buyer beware in that…
SamLR_66 on HN
Requests
Add information about the team to the About page
From 1 comment
Why is there no link to information about the team under About?
emeltzer on HN
Support for less glamorous projects
From 1 comment
Are the various proposed projects vetted at all? This seems like the sort of thing that would result in lots of pseudo science getting funded or is it buyer beware in that…
SamLR_66 on HN
Questions
Are projects vetted before funding?
From 1 comment
Hi, Sam. This is Matt from petridish. We are doing a first pass at vetting in the sense that we are looking for projects that we think the public will be excited about, run by…
msalzberg on HN
Is it limited to the U.S.?
From 1 comment
U.S. only?
cing on HN
Alternatives named
Microryza
From 1 comment
We are launching Microryza, which is still differentiated enough, but is pretty much the same thing. http://www.microryza.com/ We got beat by 4 days. But, screw it, we're going…
irollboozers on HN
SciFund
From 1 comment
I'm not sure about Petridish but SciFund is implementing a "peer review" for their next round of science crowdfunding:…
cing on HN
Fundageek
From 1 comment
You mean like Fundageek?
eli_gottlieb on HN