# 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.
Eric said:
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?
I didn't expect a particular kind of feedback. I just hoped that some
people would give me their honest take on the site. I like your reply
because it gives me something to work on.
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?)
Agreed. The site is only for my ideas. I don't want other peoples
ideas. Other peoples problems (within reason) are something I ask
for on the site.
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.
I disagree with this. I have talked with a number of developers who
say that they would start the next big thing if they only had an idea.
Now, it seems to me that we both know that it is not the idea that
makes a successful startup. I have been on a few and even started
one, so I know that first hand.
That said, I agree that a lot of developers do have their own ideas
and they then attribute something else to the reason they haven't
gone and done it already.
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.
Agreed.
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.
Now, that is a great idea. Mind if I use it ;-) Actually, one of the ideas
would give you back some time if someone implemented it. The RSS
consolidator. Here is the link rather than make this email even longer:
http://www.omniscium.com/2005/11/06/rss-consolidator/
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.
:-)
As I indicated above, I really appreciate your feedback. I wanted something
over nothing. You've given me a lot to think about.
Thanks
John.
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