New here, want feedback on an idea and not sure where to post.

[devlux]

Apologies if I am in the wrong forum here, I am new in this place and not sure where else to ask.
I've been watching bitcointalk forum for several months, but never registered.

I have an idea to build something bitcoin related.
I searched and I didn't see much related to my idea, the few items I did find were announcements of websites (many defunct) and I wasn't interested in resurrecting those threads just to hijack them.  They were all in announcements too, which doesn't seem to be the right place to ask questions of the community.

Bitcointalk seems like the right place to start a discussion on the topic of building anything, bitcoiny.
I just can't find the right subforum or area to post my idea & questions in. 

I need a place to bounce ideas off and see what sticks and what doesn't.

Mostly I just want to talk about features that are important to people in the bitcoin community that would make this idea attractive overall. 
Maybe get a good discussion going and if enough interest is there, try to build it and see what happens.

So if anyone can point me to the right forum to start the discussion, I will compose my thoughts and try to start an intelligent thread.

Oh and it's not an altcoin or fork, just a new service that utilizes bitcoin as payment method.

Thank you

[OnkelPaul]

Without telling what you really want to do, it's difficult to tell, but I think the project development subforum (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=12.0) is the place you're looking for.

Onkel Paul

[randy8777]

even if your idea isn't a new one you should definitely give it a go. bitcoin motivates so much people to launch amazing startups. the more the better.

[devlux]

Without telling what you really want to do, it's difficult to tell, but I think the project development subforum (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=12.0) is the place you're looking for.

Onkel Paul

Haha!  Cool i've never noticed that one before, but it is perfect!  Thank you so much!

I can be a bit more specific in here I guess, I didn't realize that there might actually be any interest expressed in this section. 
Probably my OCD trying to categorize and compartmentalize everything again

It's kind of a big idea, but comes down to...
"If you could help determine the featureset of a freelancing site, with the understanding that all payments occur in exclusively in bitcoin and payment is always guaranteed, what would you put in it?"

Yes I realize the idea has been done before.  I have ideas to do it differently.  More importantly, I want community input, since I find it likely that the earliest users of the site would be found here.

Thanks for the help, I'll post the actual question in the forum linked and then post a link back here.

[devlux]

even if your idea isn't a new one you should definitely give it a go. bitcoin motivates so much people to launch amazing startups. the more the better.

Posted it here, excited to hear your thoughts.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=941654.0

[b!z]

Without telling what you really want to do, it's difficult to tell, but I think the project development subforum (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=12.0) is the place you're looking for.

Onkel Paul

Haha!  Cool i've never noticed that one before, but it is perfect!  Thank you so much!

I can be a bit more specific in here I guess, I didn't realize that there might actually be any interest expressed in this section. 
Probably my OCD trying to categorize and compartmentalize everything again

It's kind of a big idea, but comes down to...
"If you could help determine the featureset of a freelancing site, with the understanding that all payments occur in exclusively in bitcoin and payment is always guaranteed, what would you put in it?"

Yes I realize the idea has been done before.  I have ideas to do it differently.  More importantly, I want community input, since I find it likely that the earliest users of the site would be found here.

Thanks for the help, I'll post the actual question in the forum linked and then post a link back here.

It's not going to succeed - sorry. Employers and freelancers will want to use the cheapest and most convenient payment method. Hint: it's not bitcoin.

[devlux]

It's not going to succeed - sorry. Employers and freelancers will want to use the cheapest and most convenient payment method. Hint: it's not bitcoin.

Thanks for the advice. 
We should probably move this part of the discussion to the linked thread, but I have no idea how to do that, or if it's even possible, so I'll reply here instead.

There are millions of reasons why this idea might not succeed, the fact that people have actually done this before and now many of the domains are just parked does not bode well in my opinion.

However, using bitcoin as a payment method is not one of the potential failure mechanisms that I forsee.
The issue of volatility is addressed at least in part by strict, sharp, short timelines between bidding and payment.
 
In fact, considering that there are many, many advantages to bitcoin payment such as no chargebacks, rapid turn around time, allowing commerce to occur between people in countries that are not nessecarily warm with eachother.  I consider it a strength not a weakness.
 
As a project lead, getting my project done on time and on budget has always been priority one.
Getting accountability from the system and have strong guarantees on deliverables is extremely attractive to people working within a defined time frame.

You may not be able to use the site to build the next ill defined Web 3.0 nebulous cloud wunder whatever site, especially if you don't have strong planning skills.  But if you needed to get a plugin for a custom file type into your in-house media server, and the dev team is busy putting out fires in the 2.0 branch. 
Something like this could be ideal, especially as bitcoin takes off.

You'd be surprised how often that actually occurs.

The flipside for the freelancer is quick projects with guaranteed payment which results in a lack of that "burned out" feeling you get from being associated with mega-projects that drag on forever.

I'm realistic though, I don't expect this to be the next multi-billion dollar, bitcoin related, Winklevoss funded startup. 
Just a community thing where people can come, earn some quick cash, or get help for projects of decent complexity.