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A new way to share ideas
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Spencer Fry
Napkin — A new way to share ideas
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Ali Ahmed
There should be a private version.
Douglas Correa
I really like the clean design and the simple functionality. Maybe it could interesting to have the same upvote algorithm from HN/PH to not let ordered by "Wants" only. I also think the sharing buttons will help to spread my idea to the world, besides the permalink is good enough to share it. (I shared my AwesomeLists idea in HN easily)
Eli Rousso
Maker
Napkin is the step before Product Hunt—get validation and gauge interest and feedback before building anything, as quickly as possible. I was hacking on this a while ago—kinda gave up— then saw the other Napkin today on Product Hunt— decided to tweet it out. Have a bunch of features I'm working on, but decided this was enough for the mvp. Would love any feedback / criticism / ideas.
Walter Chen
@elirousso great stuff. i feel like riff raff like me shouldn't be allowed to post. any thoughts on making it exclusive to keep quality high?
Eli Rousso
Maker
@smalter @elirousso I definitely thought about it. It *was* exclusive for a bit— and now I guess it's open. Ultimately should have an invite system etc to keep content quality high, but didn't get around to it.
Mark Lombardi-Nelson
@elirousso You crushed this. Clean interface + Easy to Use & Understand. Can you add the ability for groups to post ideas?
Eli Rousso
Maker
@lombardinelson blushing. Would love to. That's in my roadmap.
Adrien JOLY
Is this product still supposed to work? When I try to sign up with Facebook, I get on a "something went wrong" page.
Leo Faria
Nice! Is there any curation of what is published or not? If you keep finding tons of trash and stupid ideas people might stop engaging, I believe.
Eli Rousso
Maker
@lhfaria Very fair. Not enough content / activity to build it out yet
steve sarner
Great name for sure!
Vipin Thomas
There's another similar one that also allows associating a dollar value for the wants https://myidealist.co/
Micah Ghoulish
eli, i really dig this. it is apparent that you built it with the flexibility to service dead-serious business/startup bros and also more casual idea generation. i'll definitely be using this and showing it to my friends. thanks much. also, i saw you put the sex number on twitter.
Eli Rousso
Maker
@micahkulish lol duh
Illai Gescheit
@elirousso, I love the simple and clean design. Did you think of adding some sharing buttons to share the ideas to the social networks or do you want to keep it in a closed community? Just some technical issue, when I tried posting an idea, there is no option to cancel this action, so I would add either a cancel button or when you press outside of the post idea card, just direct the user back to the idea list.
Eli Rousso
Maker
@illaigescheit Thanks for the feedback! I wanted users to be able to share their ideas to FB and Twitter, but it's still under development. Mmm good point on the cancel button, too.
Tinh Nguyen
Clean design! Can i login with my Twitter account soon?
Shalabh
Great product. Posted my first idea. Would like to see the following two features :-) 1. Ability to log in through Twitter and leverage my Twitter social graph. 2. Ability to share the idea on other social networks to drive more traffic and also get validation from people I trust more.
Rudo Martin
@elirousso Great design, simple and clear direction. I do agree with @smalter with regards to the "exclusivity" to keep the quality high but I get where you are coming from. Keeping it open to everyone to generate content and then once there is a steady stream of posts. Cut it off. This will make people ask questions and interact more to gain access to this exclusive club basically. Overall great!!
Amrith
There can be two napkins before you hit ProductHunt :D Get your idea evaluated on http://napkin.is And then get it built by http://www.napkn.io/ ;)
Tom
Option sans FB please.
Eli Rousso
Maker
@tomflemming Soon!