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Ask HN: Interested in a site for listing startup ideas you want done?

5 points by haliax ↗ HN
I know there are a lot of experiences out there that frustrate people, and that they'd like to see done better (think cloud storage pre Dropbox), but unless you <i>have</i> one of those problems, it's pretty tricky to know that it exists, and even then, it's tricky to know that there's a sizeable market for it. But if people could post their frustrations online, it would be pretty easy for would-be entrepreneurs to find good markets, and the rest of us would get better products...seems like a win-win to me. Thoughts?

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brittohalloran
YEAH. I always thought this would be a good idea. A place to post good ideas that I don't want to or have the time or means to do. An "idea exchange". I half think that something like this already exists, but I've never seen it.
SABmore
Yes. I had a similar thought last year, registering ideaserving/ideaservingsize.com, but obviously never did anything with it. My thought was to have folks post their ideas, and each day you'd see/get a list of 3-4 new ideas. If you liked one of the ideas you could then connect with the submitter. All the best.
bmelton
Not saying it should deter you, but there are a LOT of sites that already do this. The first that I know of was either "shouldexist.org"[1] or "The Halfbakery"[2], but there are more. [1] - http://shouldexist.org/

[2] = http://halfbakery.com

http://Thinkcycle.org

http://ideaexplore.net/

http://www.whynot.net/

http://www.globalideasbank.org/site/home/

http://www.ideas4all.com/

http://www.springwise.com/ideas/

Most of them are in various states of sucking, but Springwise looks pretty nice, and I like the half-bakery if only for nostalgia.

breathesalt
Be lean. Create a stack exchange proposal at http://area51.stackexchange.com/, make a new HN post linking to it, and we'll see where this goes. But anyone interested should try making the proposal, since it seems the OP has already lost interest.