# from John Goalby
# on Wednesday 16 November 2005 08:52 am:
>I was wondering why? I am really looking for feedback on how
>to make the site more useful to people.
Hmm. I have too many ideas of my own?
What kind of feedback did you expect? What do you want to do with this
site? What do you want us to do with it? Do we get paid for posting
our ideas there? How about getting paid for implementing yours?
There appear to be some software ideas, but others are not even
tangential. It's an interesting idea to have a site to get ideas, but
lots of people have had that idea (and most of them probably thought,
now what?)
Let's just say for the sake of argument that the point is for aspiring
open-source developers to find ideas for a project. That's not really
that useful, since most aspiring developers have some idea that they're
already aspiring about.
It's been said before that ideas are a dime a dozen, and it's also been
said that they aren't even worth that much. Given the number of ideas
I have and the number of dimes that I can attribute to them, that seems
pretty true.
So, I just don't need a site full of ideas. Give me a site where I can
download (or even efficiently and affordably buy) _time_! Man, I'd be
all over that.
That said, this is good stuff for talking over with beer. Especially if
you buy the beer. But, just to show you how cheap ideas are, I'll give
you this one: market this as some kind of bar game. When the
conversation turns dull, you just put a quarter in the "idea box",
which spits out an idea and gives you something to say "wow! that
would be really cool" about. As you might have guessed, it's going to
take time and money to build these idea boxes, get them on every table
of every bar, and go around and collect the quarters out of them. A
lot of ideas are like that.
--Eric
--
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.
--Occam's Razor
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