Ask HN: I just bought hackableproblems.com – Help me decide what to do with it

Posted by zekenie on Friday August 16, 2013 @07:30PM
from the ask-hn dept.

A while ago I saw some websites for people to exchange startup ideas... Maybe ideas they didn't want to do, but wanted to see built. This is cool, but startup ideas are the wrong place to start. I want to know about pressing problems that require hacking solutions. Maybe the solution to these problems wouldn't event be startups--they'd just make the world better. Do folks think its a good idea to have a place for discussions of hackable problems. What would you want to see?

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Re:Ask HN: I just bought hackableproblems.com – Help me deci... by krapp on Friday August 16, 2013 @07:41PM (#6227493)

I recently saw sideprojectors.com listed here and thought it that maybe something similar for the posting and discussion of code itself (git repos, random files, etc) related to problem and abandoned projects might be good.

Also, given the number of complaints about StackOverflow's moderation policies, I think there's definitely room for a forum where people can discuss the kinds of things that get squashed there.

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Re:Ask HN: I just bought hackableproblems.com – Help me deci... by S4M on Saturday August 17, 2013 @03:28PM (#6230052)

It would be neat to have platform where people can bid for a solution to their problem that require programming. For example, "I need a firefox/chrome plugin to do X...".

I am sure such a thing already exists, but hackableproblems.com still sounds like a good name for it.

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Re:Ask HN: I just bought hackableproblems.com – Help me deci... by hackerkira on Friday August 16, 2013 @07:36PM (#6227474)

There are plenty of social good forums, would this be unique because the audience is hackers who have the capacity to build solutions? What about having these funnel into hackathons?

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