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Show HN: New Tool for Crowdsourced Idea Validation (idearoost.app)

6 points by onounoko ↗ HN
Hello Hackers, IdeaRoost is a platform that connects those who are seeking feedback with those who want to provide feedback. The concept is you post an idea/project, fund it with some money, and people will leave you feedback for a little reward.

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Protonu3102
I wanted to try it, but it doesn't have signup options other than Apple. Please add other ways to signup
onounoko
Login with google is also an option, it might take a second for it to show up. Is that good enough or would you prefer a register with your email option?
Protonu3102
Google is good enough
onounoko
I made a change to preload the google script so hopefully that helps with the issue you saw where it didn't show up.
gravity2060
Feels shady that there is no concrete info on cost for founders or payouts for reviewers. Transparency here would boost trust and conversions.
gravity2060
Also, major flaws is founders aren’t incentivized to give karma. In fact the opposite—if they don’t give karma their budget stays intact longer. There hard side of this market is quality comments—the money is the easy part to solve, the mechanism that definitively rewards your best contributors is harder, and is not there yet. Also, this really isn’t really idea validation, which would imply that reviewers are matched customer persona, this is really more QA / feedback. By describing it as validation you don’t attract the right users, and you disappoint the users who do come who expect x but get y. Do I move up a level for this feedback :)