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A website for testing your app ideas (elevtr.io)
68 points by jsunderland on Dec 31, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 21 comments



This website is suspiciously similar to https://www.elevatr.com/.


And, is facebook suspiciously similar to Myspace?


I think if Facebook had launched at myspc.io people would've raised eyebrows.


"Elevtr IO is an app for testing your minimum viable product or supporting ideas you like."

A MVP isn't a description of something that doesn't exist. An MVP is the cheapest way to get value to your users. Interesting idea for a site, but I wish they wouldn't use the phrase MVP.


This could work for free or 0 price ideas, but for paid services or products you have to ask someone to give you money to find out if they really like your idea.


Interesting site. I think it could be more helpful if it also had a "wouldn't use" button that also asks for specific feedback. Sometimes its good to hear peoples concerns when you are still in the idea phase.


thanks for the feedback man. I'm still mulling that feature over.


Wouldn't an app idea need feedback from it's target market? How does this site help with that?


There should be a way to suggest/tag an existing solution (to generate conversation -- why is their solution better?)

This seems like a good way to help people collaborate and not re-invent the wheel, unless there's a compelling reason / competitive advantage / unique value proposition.


Great idea; I keep trying to leave a lengthy comment and I get an error. I get a 500 Error.


that's so embarrassing. I'm on it. Thanks for letting me know


Just ship something.


Just a minor note. In the 'you are not logged in modal' it would be great if there is a link to the login/register


it doesn't seem to be working. it's stuck on a "do you want to delete this idea" opened in front of a "congratulations! we wish you the best of luck" opened in front of "after you click launch..." (at this point, I stopped deleting div elements to find out what's behind dialog number 2)


Interestingly, I had a similar idea some weeks ago. In addition to checking if your ideas are worth stealing it could also be used to connect people with similar ideas.

Then I tried to find a solution to the "good ideas will get stolen" issue and lost interest since I could not find a solution that would not involve a repulsive amount of cryptography.

Would love to hear other people take on this, though.


Cannot register - says my email is invalid (contains a plus sign (+)).


interesting concept, but I'm always worried that submitting ideas to a site like this will result in the good ones being stolen, if not by the website owner then by the users.


> submitting ideas to a site like this will result in the good ones being stolen

I tried to do exactly that. But the only idea that I'd implement was "elevtr io".


I agree, managing a private test is much more controlled and feels safer (i.e. just whipping up a landing page to prove some demand)


it's a valid point. But don't you want to know if it's good enough to be stolen?


not really -- isn't that like wondering if your wallet is fat enough to get noticed and pick pocketed?




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