Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I’m Yuvraj and I absolutely love working on projects – whether they’re websites, games, social initiatives, research projects, or startups.
When I’m working on something, I find myself coming up with lots of great ideas about other valuable projects that one could do. But even though these ideas are amazing, they often require skills/resources that I don’t have and don’t align very well with my career goals. So, they just lie on the scratchpad.
Yet later, when I’m looking for ideas, I’m unable to find anything good. The internet is full of so much other stuff that finding unique yet useful project ideas is a nightmare. Finding one that matches my specific interests is even more difficult.
Enter Oasis of Ideas. It’s an online platform that, I hope, will be the best place on the internet to share and discover project ideas.
Key features:
1️⃣ Every idea gets its own page. So every idea can be discussed and evaluated on its own merit, not grouped together with a dozen other ideas.
2️⃣ Ideas are well organised – by category, expected time to execute, the progress on it so far. This makes them really easy to search through.
3️⃣ It’s a dynamic list. The rankings of ideas changes as people interact with it (upvote, comment etc). If an adequate implementation of an idea is found, it is closed, thereby keeping everything fresh and unique.
4️⃣You can find collaborators! We’ve got a slack channel for each idea so you can meet others who are interested in executing that idea.
So, what do you think? Is this useful for you? What would make this even more useful?
Your “ideas” guy,
Yuvraj
@kjosephabraham Pretty much what I described! I had too many ideas that I wasn't able to properly give away. Too few ideas when I was looking for something specific.
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@yuvraj_sarda Kudos to you for this launch! Wishing you and your team a fantastic journey ahead. What’s next on the horizon for your team?
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How can we prevent people from stealing others' good ideas and using them in their own projects for personal gain?
@cassandra11 If your idea is something you're personally interested in working on, then don't submit the idea. If you submit it here, it is because you don't want to work on it yourself, but you want someone else to.
Hey Yuvraj,
An idea-sharing platform could be a great resource for creative minds and entrepreneurs.
How do you plan to maintain the quality and originality of ideas shared on the platform?
Congratulations on the launch!
@kyrylosilin Great question!
As a first quality filter, I manually approve idea submissions – just to avoid spam and perhaps reword things to be clearer. Might automate this somehow in the future.
Thereafter, often, the community builds on the ideas, using their creativity to suggest ways of making the idea more original and feasible (this idea is a great example of this). So, even ideas that are seemingly dumb at first sight tend to evolve into good ideas.
Finally, the list is dynamic. Once a suitable implementation of an idea is found (or made), we close discussion ideas and stop showing them on the repository. This ensures that any ideas you see are at least not obviously well-established.
PS: if you see an idea that you think is bad quality, leave a comment. If your comment sufficiently addresses it, we'll close the idea and save everyone some time 🙌 .
@jsteneros Yep, exactly! We just can't pursue every great idea that comes to our minds. Choose the ones you wanna work on, and make the rest public so at least the project happens.
Feel free to sign up! That way, you'll hear from us occasionally and be reminded of any ideas that you would like the world to work on!
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I've met many really creative thinkers who come up with great ideas (that they know they won't execute), but they don't share or dicuss it freely because they're scared someone might steal it. Most of them don't realize that great execution and persistence is the bulk of the work that stands between an idea and success, and they can't work on executing every idea anyway. As you said Yuvraj, they should choose a couple ideas for themselves and make the rest public, but they don't because of the often irrational fear of ideas being stolen. Maybe an educational podcast or short-form content series with popular founders/investors that debunks this type of fear would help Oasis of Ideas.
@aryaman_roongta I agree! Even when building this platform, coming up with the idea was <5% of the challenge.
I've added your suggestion to our todo list!
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