Share your insights: aha.betterexplained.com (beta)

Thanks for sharing this -- it's a MVP designed to<p><pre><code> - get nascent ideas public (personal use case) - find the best analogies/examples used to explain topics - apply these techniques to other topics </code></pre> It needs some iteration to narrow the focus, but my dream of dreams is to visit any topic (Fourier Transform, let's say) and see the best insights that <i>actually helped</i> people understand the idea. Any feedback from HN'ers is more than welcome!<p>Tech details: Running Rails3 [3.0 :)] on Heroku. I prototyped early versions entirely in javascript using jsfiddle.net.

Nice work! I am interested in collective intelligence. This is a cool starting point for quickly sharing an idea.<p>It seems like the reverse of a Question/Answer site; it is almost a Answer/Question site, where someone posts a solution ( or a solution to a question they were asking themselves ) and others ask them about more about what they found- great!<p>Concerning functionality: 1)How about being able to up-vote comments? Some insights and comments are more valuable to your core community; and it would be convenient for them to be able to see that reflected, as well as allowing them to encourage it.<p>2)How about being able to merge similar or duplicate posts; so instead of duplicated posts in a subject you would see all the duplicated posts under the most popular/valuable post, as chosen by the users' up-votes.<p>It is a general-knowledge based site right now. I wonder if you could port it to existing, active sites so that you could get feedback from the wild. Have you considered enabling it as a web service?<p>It might be cool if there was an API such that I could link the # of "aha"'s that users had attached to my website- similar to the Face Book 'like' and Google '+1' button. Though this would be more valuable, since I don't really want to see all the people that liked a page who I am 'friends' with; rather, I really want to read valuable insight ( hopefully :) ) from strangers!

Given some of the teachers I've had, I could probably contribute a lot to the exact opposite of such a site...<p>huh.badlyexplained.com -- Let's share the deep huhs? that prevented us from understanding an idea: convoluted diagrams, false analogies, cooked-up examples.