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@rishabhjain1198 solid stuff

@rishabhjain1198 Congrats, good luck 🚀 If you need some help with the logo and brand identity, feel free to contact me!

@petur Thanks a ton for checking this out and posting! Looking into better formatting tooling now, that's a great point. The initial hope is that the community self-moderates, and doesn't value stolen ideas as much. I can look into building tooling which will show readers similarities with other ideas to make it more blatant. Could also perhaps help users build on existing ideas. WDYT?

@rishabhjain1198 Here's my solution, because community moderators are great until an outside source comes to visit: Give each idea a Title Field that is required. All of these Titles are visible on the dashboard/home page. Under this title there is a view button or something similar. Upon click it expands and shows the whole idea right away. Along side this, require a connected wallet to verify an individual's identity. People without wallets can view "Free to collect" ideas, but to view ones that are up for sale they must have one connected. With these two things, when someone clicks to view a paid idea, they are logged as a viewer under their wallet address. This is all private until a dispute is called in the future, where moderators/you can view the logs. Just spit balling, but this could handle that issue. Does this align with your goal of the service? I really am excited for a service like this so if you need some more feedback let me know. One final question though, how is this profitable for you?

@petur Thanks a ton for the feedback! I've been working with my team to try and push out some features which cater better for the use case you mentioned. 1. "Titles" is a great concept, currently working on UX to see if we can incorporate that. 2. Transparently, I'm not very keen on hiding information behind a wallet-connect. One of the goals is to make information accessible to everyone, including web2 native folks. However, what you mentioned definitely sounds like an effective prong in the solution to the plagiarism problem. There would need to be other facets as well, since a user can still get around this by simply creating a dummy wallet. I think there's many different things we can do here, and so this issue does not worry me too much. Also, since there's a bunch of important data on-chain, the community can self-verify a lot of the info. 3. This is definitely not profitable! Currently, I was experimenting with charging a transaction fee when someone purchases an idea, this might also be waived in the future. I'm hoping to build a useful product first, monetization can always kick in later. Extremely excited you enjoyed the concept! I'm looking closely at the way you expressed your idea, and trying to build tooling to make that experience better, and truly make this a home for thinkers. I'll ping this thread once we have pushed a substantial change (most likely in the next week or so). Your feedback means everything to us :)

@rishabhjain1198 Thanks Rishabh, a lot of good info both here and the other reply you sent my way. My mistake on not understanding that the Goerli ETH is based on the test net. As the idea is collected and tradable (in its current state) is that only tradable within the Goerli ecosystem? Or is that movable throughout the main net upon minting / will be in the future. I personally would like the collected ideas to be held on the main net, would the currently collected ideas be transferred over in the event of moving to the main net? I would highly recommend a transaction fee in the future. If the service is successful and gaining traffic, covering cost for hosting/running/minting + typical wages is beyond understandable. But as it is early in the development, keeping no fee for now could bring in more users. As for real vs fake money, Personally, my use would be circulated around real money and the value of ideas. You and your team may have different values when it comes to it, and as it is your vision for the platform I can’t say what you all should do. However, a real currency based marketplace could be more attractive to thinkers. I personally would like the collected ideas to be held on the main net with real value, would the currently collected ideas be transferred over in the event of moving to the main net? As you all make more tools I will be watching the thread for any updates, and any questions I threw at you here could be answered there. Along side these tools it may be worth expanding typical website features such as: FAQ About Notifications for updates to the service Excited for the service!

@petur We're currently looking for user feedback to decide whether we should move to the mainnet or not. I'm really excited to hear that you would prefer the mainnet, I'm of the same opinion as you! I'm just not sure if that's what most people would want, that should become clear in the next few weeks. Once we do move to the mainnet, all existing ideas would be transferred over, but the ownerships for them would go back to the creators. Good call on adding those sections (FAQ, About, etc), working on it now! We were able to add in better formatting, so linebreaks and links should be visible now. Another thing we're working on is adding sub-ideas. Currently, long-form ideas are not easily readable. To remedy that, we would impose a 280 char limit, but allow thinkers to expand on their idea through sub-ideas. This would allow people to post their thoughts in a more organized manner, but also enable readers to digest it easily. They can also then comment granularly on each sub-idea, and interact with widgets for each of them. Here are some mockups: https://imgur.com/a/gqGTBm7 https://imgur.com/a/XoLgcL5 What do you think about this? Is there anything else you would like to see on this platform? One of the other major features we're working on is custodial wallets. So anyone who signs up can start trading ideas without having a metamask wallet, and can just pay using a debit card and store their ideas in a wallet managed by us. They will never have to deal with any web3 infra, hopefully making the onboarding process much simpler, and making this service accessible to general web2 folks. BTW are there any people you know who you think would love a platform like this? Perhaps a particular community I should market to? Thanks, really appreciate your feedback! Your input is guiding our development behind the scenes :)

@rishabhjain1198 hmm after some digging it looks like it was purchased through the Goerli Test net instead of the main net...

@petur Ofcourse! I'm sorry if it wasn't clear enough, I mentioned it in the top-level comment on this page; we're currently on the testnet, and also giveaway some testnet ETH to users to make trading easier. The thesis behind it is not just to bug-test, but also to test out how people feel about using fake money vs. real money to purchase ideas. Having to allocate some finite amount of tender to ideas you find worthwhile is a powerful concept. It allows you to truly see what a person holds meaningful by looking at their collections, and see how impactful their creations are. Perhaps this goal is fulfilled by just using fake currency, thereby making it very accessible to a large number of people. Perhaps it isn't, and real money is the way to go, since that also unlocks a lot of interesting use cases. What's your opinion on this? Also, not sure if you noticed, but it also creates listings on other marketplaces as soon as an idea is purchased and minted. Here's your listing: https://goerli.looksrare.org/col...

@petur Alternatively, a hybrid model of fake and real currency could be really interesting as well...