Show HN: Don't let your billion-dollar ideas die

Original Article ↗ Hacker News Discussion ↗

Overall reception

  • Many commenters find the site fun, addictive, and a great example of a focused MVP.
  • Others see it as mostly entertainment rather than a true incubator of “billion‑dollar” ideas.
  • Comparisons are made to prior “idea dumping” sites and subcultures (e.g., similar to existing idea forums, joke-idea channels, and general internet silliness).

Product features & UX feedback

  • Strong demand for:
    • Voting/liking, sorting (top, trending, recent), infinite scroll.
    • Tagging/filtering and possibly a “hot vs random” split view.
    • Comments and some way for people to meet around an idea.
    • Markdown support and truncation of long entries with “read more”/tooltip.
  • The developer rapidly adds voting, infinite scroll, sorting options, and later comments, and promises markdown, moderation, and better truncation.

Content quality, culture, and moderation

  • Thread highlights a mix of:
    • Earnest ideas users “hope someone steals.”
    • Deliberately absurd, risqué, or offensive ideas, which some users love and others criticize as “trash.”
  • Several call for moderation to block binary files, overt garbage, and possibly steer comments toward optimistic/helpful feedback.
  • Some enjoy the “Boaty McBoatface”/shitpost vibe; others expected more serious startup concepts and are disappointed.

Ideas vs. execution

  • Multiple comments stress that ideas are cheap; execution (including marketing, ops, legal, etc.) is what matters.
  • There’s skepticism that “after expiry, someone else will probably build it” — some see this as unlikely.
  • Others argue the site is still useful as a way to surface the initial 1% “spark,” leaving the 99% execution to builders.

Privacy, identity, and anonymity

  • Concern raised that author names were removed from the UI but remained in API responses, effectively leaking identities.
  • Advice given: treat non-visible PII in APIs as public; users expect visible UI to reflect what’s shared.
  • Unclear policy on anonymity; future option suggested to let users choose whether to display their name.

Miscellaneous tangents

  • Long subthreads spin out from specific joke ideas (e.g., nuclear landmines, bat bombs, sex-work platforms, “batteries that store the internet” as a caching metaphor), illustrating both creativity and the thread’s chaotic nature.