Whoever started it, the intent was good. We should resume Idea Sunday threads. A small HN experiment maybe. Every Sunday, a new thread will be started to share product ideas. Why? Because many people have ideas they will simply not have the time to implement, and many need product ideas to work on.<p>Links to some interesting Idea Sundays happened earlier:<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7541601<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7582077<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7616910<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693262<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9165278<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7654771<p>EDIT: Well, HN admins don't see this adds a good value to HN core. More on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693640
Your list omits the valid reason why it stopped: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693640" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693640</a>
Yeah, they stopped doing them regularly because the HN admins didn't think they added enough value. I tend to disagree and would love the resumption of this as a regular thread, but unless somebody changes their mind, it will probably continue to be shut down.
I also disagree. It should be started again. It is very nice to see what people wants and it creates another ideas which can benefit community. If it is not interesting for someone it does not mean it is not interesting to others.
If these do happen again:<p>1) A special account should be set up to post the threads (and people should flag the other threads).<p>2) There should be no more than one thread per month.<p>I did recently ask about this, and HN staff are reluctant, so I didn't go ahead.<p>There are websites (half-baked) and there's probably a sub-reddit (and it would be easy enough to create a subreddit).
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