How about submitting it to this site with the prefix [IDEA]? Mailing lists commonly use [ANN] prefixes for new announcements. There is no reason we can't use something similar. For example:
I think this is Ok, except some improvement is needed on news.yc. Comments should somehow affect the rank of a post. And it's not the number of comments that matters, but rather the number of people involved, possibly taking into account their karmas.
And of course this should be recursive and should be applied to comments themselves (subcomments affect the comment).
Wiki sucks in many respects, including lack of true parallelism, while a simple reddit-like system with discussions would work better, perhaps with some modifications.
In fact, YCnews is perfect, except it doesn't take into account voting that's going on inside a post. That is, if there are good comments under a post from many people (the more the better) that post should get a higher rank. Well, hm, like this one :)
Also, we need some way to search only 'idea' posts. Perhaps if news.yc had tags that would suffice, but otherwise this may deserve a different namespace. Not something one reads everyday but more of a tool to submit or search for ideas.
It was trying to do a lot of what's being described here.
I also tried to do something similar back in the day, a kind of "human capital investment group."
What any "group" that gets together like this will inevitably find is, 99% of people, or more, will just want to put up ideas. The people who would actually implement them (like myself and other entreprehackers on here), already have way to many ideas of their own that they don't have enough time to pursue.
Working on something like this right now, kind of a jobs/talent thing. Thought it might be useful.
Will post when I've got something worth looking at (this week)
Planning on making it kind of an 'Ideas wanted' or 'People wanted' or 'Money wanted' site, so people can interface. Putting my money where my mouth is with some distributed karma systems as well.
No database there for that, and pg_hba.conf is set up to not allow outside connections, but aside from that, my host uses mysql and I develop on postgres.
Guys, I'm building a collaboration application called Wamily that would be perfect for this. I just set up a group for this purpose. It has a wiki, and threaded conversations, and eventually more tools.
Sign up at http://wamily.com with invite code ZMYWVX and you will automatically be added to the group
Saw this the other day. Pretty similar to an idea I presented to PG way back when. I still have PG's whiteboard post: "but some startup ideas need be kept secret"
It looks like there are several different users who want to build this (or something similar).
I definitely think collaboration would work best - if the site is going to be used by the community it needs all of our support. It can't be a one man show.
Personally, I envision a site with several different tools: idea feedback, find cofounders, find shared office space, demo new apps, a how-to resource archive, wiki, etc.
I think one News.YC reader has already built a site that can be used to find cofounders. Jamie, Sumon and Timmmah built a site to demo apps (demomyapp.com). Justin is building a basic idea feedback site. John Leung is trying to organize a shared office/startup hub website. I'm building a resource archive.
What if we all collaborated on one site that did it all?
Some of the features could have different URLs (for example, demomyapp.com wouldn't have to move) - but it'd be cool to run we all off the same server w/ the same theme/layout and same user authentication process.
Kind of like google accounts w/ google/gmail/google analytics/etc.
Funny, because I just registered a domain for something like that, ideasbin.com, one day before this thread started. It was a direct inspiration by YC, too: since everybody keeps going on about ideas being worthless, why not "throw away" your idea? It could also be a place to mourn your ideas that you'll never make come true.
My plan was to start simple, though (perhaps reddit style ideas submission, a wiki page for the idea, 'social net' in that people can collect their favorite ideas). Seeing the ideas taking form here, I guess ideasbin would not be too successful (should have picked a more serious domain name).
But anyway, in general I am interested to work on this, although actual time available might be limited. Email in my profile.
[IDEA] A web site for sharing startup ideas.
[STARTUP] www.shareyourstartupidea.com. Comments welcome.