Re:Show HN: Check if my startup ideas have legs
by orky56 on Friday February 12, 2021 @05:07PM
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There's a great opportunity to use this site as a jumping off point for distribution. Harvest emails/like on social/transact for one-time/repeat/subscription/recommend to friends/etc, all of which is available via various existing vendor APIs.
Imagine 10 earnest, formidable, unknown founders in one end and 10 bad-looking, good, unknown ideas on the other end. It'd be great if they could find each other.
Paying is a stronger signal than entering an email. Harvesting emails might work but it'd need some proof-of-work mechanism to vet people really are interested.
What Kickstarter doesn't provide is a way for backers to show things they want built that no-one stepped up to build yet. That's a bigger set. It's all of the ideas that are left!