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IdeasNest

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Share your startup idea and get real feedback, free

5.0•6 reviews•

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Share your startup idea and get real feedback, free

5.0•6 reviews•

31 followers

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IdeasNest is a public gallery where anyone can post a startup idea and get feedback from founders and mentors. It's free, no pitch decks, no paywall. Every idea answers four questions: who it's for, why there's demand, your ideal customers and how you'd reach them, so readers have something real to respond to. An optional investor section covers the commercial side. Nothing asks you to reveal your IP. Private "nests" let a cohort, university or incubator share ideas with just their group.

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Name: IdeasNest
Rating: 5.0 (6 reviews)

The community submitted 6 reviews to tell us what they like about IdeasNest, what IdeasNest can do better, and more.

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•2 reviews

What's great

What I like most about IdeasNest is how low the barrier is. You don't need a pitch deck or a polished plan, you just answer four simple questions: who it's for, why there's demand, who your ideal customers are and how you'd reach them. That structure forces you to think clearly, and it gives people reading your idea something concrete to react to, so the feedback is useful and not just "cool idea, good luck".

It's also free with no paywall, and nothing pushes you to give away your IP, which removes the usual fear of sharing early. The private nests are a smart touch too. I work with cohorts and training groups, and having a closed space where a group can share ideas only among themselves is exactly what those settings need.

Full disclosure: I know the maker, and I've seen how much care went into this. Happy to see it live.

What needs improvement

It's launch day, so the community is still small. As more founders and mentors join, the feedback will get richer.

vs Alternatives

Usually early ideas end up in a Notion doc, a WhatsApp group or a Reddit thread, where feedback is either scattered or too generic. IdeasNest gives the idea a proper format and an audience of founders and mentors who are there for that purpose.

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9 views17h ago

Thank you Gianluca and thank you for the disclosure, which you didn't have to make.
The nests point is the one I'll take away. You work with cohorts and training groups, and that's exactly who they were built for, but it's the part of IdeasNest almost nobody discovers unless they're told. If you ever want one set up for a group of yours, say the word.
And you're right about the community being small today, that's the honest state of it. There are 186 ideas up there, most imported from the old site, and the whole job this year is getting the people behind them talking to each other again. Today was a start.

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17h ago

•5 reviews

What's great

12Ronnies should be THE description in every start-up dictionary for "cool". Why? Because it leaves nothing behind that needs to be considered when you've started a company. The format, the peer reviews, the experienced operator opinions and suggestions. All of these provide the best foundation a start-up could hope for to be successful. Really! It's not so much that you don't need to go anywhere else other than 12Ronnies. But know that if you don't, you haven't skipped anything important. Check it out and see for yourself.

What needs improvement

It would be great if the comments section allowed editing, instead of just straight deletion.

vs Alternatives

The closest "competitor" is any and every start-up forum. The difference is every single one of those essentially let's you run freely amuck with no direction or purpose, or is akin to an opinion sight where posts are meant not to benefit you, but to advertise what they are doing.

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11 views18h ago

Mario, the editing point is a fair hit, and a slightly embarrassing one: the database has had an edited_at column for comments since the rebuild, so the intent was always there. I just never built the screen. Delete-and-repost is a poor substitute, particularly when someone's spotted a typo in a long reply. I'll get it done.
On the rest, thank you, genuinely. Your idea is also the one I point at when people ask what a fully worked entry looks like: all nine sections answered, real figures, a proper argument about demand. It sets the standard for the gallery.
And your line about other forums letting you "run amuck with no direction" is precisely why the four questions are compulsory. Several people have told me today that's too much friction. You've just made the case for it better than I did.

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What's great

It's free, with no paywall and no pitch deck needed, so there's no barrier to sharing an idea early.

vs Alternatives

You don't have to reveal your IP, which removes one of the biggest reasons people keep ideas to themselves.

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