ideaharbor

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idea sharing platform

SHOW HN2024

171points
126comments
#471of 3,515 in 2024
Top 14%of 2024 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

20 positive, 26 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 14 critical, out of 61 comments about the project. Thread score +0.10.

Idea: 15 for, 11 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Fun and entertaining to read the submitted ideas

    From 3 comments
  • Good concept for sharing ideas

    From 2 comments
    • Neat idea - there's so many ideas for anyone to be able to get to that this is a great way to share with people who want to try to build a product instead of a project. One thing…
      j45 on HN
    • People are messing with it, but I really like the idea. I put my real idea there. It's one I really like but I just don't have the time or expertise to execute it. I really hope…
      jedberg on HN

Objections

  • Many submissions are joke or deliberately bad ideas

    From 2 comments
    • People are flooding this with deliberately horrible ideas for some reason. I assume the reason is that people are trash. Not really what I expected from HN.
      ilaksh on HN
    • Also can you ban people who post actual trash like binary files.
      ilaksh on HN
  • Ideas are a dime a dozen; execution matters more

    From 2 comments

Requests

  • Comments, voting, and sorting

    From 3 comments
    • Update - Added these features - Voting, Infinite Scroll & Sorting ( Trending, Top Voted & Most Recent ) Right now working on Comments, will probably ship it by tomorrow
      curiousmindset on HN
    • comments are live !
      curiousmindset on HN
    • hey thanks ! just added voting feature, will add the rest as well currently there is no moderation, i just made this as a fun project and didn't expect it to go this wild lol.…
      curiousmindset on HN
  • Markdown support and truncation of long ideas

    From 2 comments
    • Thanks everyone for all the suggestions and ideas so far. Just added a voting system based on your feedback. Will soon add: - Content moderation - Truncating large ideas on the…
      curiousmindset on HN
    • Can you add markdown support? I already submitted one with markdown (username 'runvnc') .. also maybe deal with longer entries like only show the first 250 characters in the box…
      ilaksh on HN
  • Content moderation

    From 2 comments
    • Thanks everyone for all the suggestions and ideas so far. Just added a voting system based on your feedback. Will soon add: - Content moderation - Truncating large ideas on the…
      curiousmindset on HN
    • Also can you ban people who post actual trash like binary files.
      ilaksh on HN

Questions

  • Should ideas be anonymous; author names were exposed in API

    From 1 comment
    • Hi are the ideas supposed to be anonymous? because you are leaking everyone's names, just by opening network tab.
      ramonverse on HN

Alternatives named

  • Halfbakery

    From 1 comment
    • An earlier effort along similar lines can be seen at https://www.halfbakery.com
      frankus on HN
  • r/ideas

    From 1 comment
    • > It would be nice to be able to "like" the best ideas. That’s basically r/ideas
      left-struck on HN

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