Disclaimer: There's no app yet, because I don't want to start coding before I get a sense of what people want.<p>So I have been looking into a few social networks for entrepreneurs, and they all kinda suck. I think the key is to make it super niched, i.e. hackers / internet entrepreneurs.<p>What I really want is a place for internet entrepreneurs to brainstorm, get feedback from each other, survey, basically things that is already happening on HN that is not "news"<p>Yet, hacker news is build more as a news site so some of the other usage cases cannot be fully exploited. Non-news discussions tend to get drown out in the sea of regular news (though the addition of Ask HN section has made things better).<p>I want to do a survey to see what features will be good.
- Video chat brainstorming
- Site / App feedbacks
- Organizing local meetup
- Ardvark-like context matching of profiles to recommend relevant discussions
- Weekly group Q&A, Contest
- Plain old forum<p>And of course the site will following a set of rules of conduct such as constructive feedback, limited self-promotion, etc. It will probably have some sort of rating / karma system.<p>Any suggestions? Thanks.
The piece I feel would be useful is a simple link that is auto-generated from every hacker news discussion. You could hit it by going to the site from a comment link, for example: <a href="http://blah.salon/" rel="nofollow">http://blah.salon/</a> and it would determine based on your referral URL what post you're talking about, then let people do some sort of collaboration around it.<p>Think of the "AMA" thread posted by the Angel investor yesterday (i think his name was Josh).<p>It would be cool if you could place a simple link there which would take you to a page full of discussion points, videos, etc that people put together. Or maybe just collaborate in a different fashion than text comments?<p>Anyway just an idea.