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Built for the ideas we never get to
This site has been at the back of my mind for many years; AI is finally helping me bring it to life.
I am often caught between two problems: some days I cannot decide what to work on, while other days I have more ideas than I could ever follow up. I suspect I am not alone.
I studied engineering, then business, and recently foresight. Sometimes I had to choose a question before I had the judgement to choose well. Sometimes I had a rough idea but did not know how to put it to a professor without embarrassing myself. And sometimes, usually when I was supposed to be studying for my next exam, I had a flurry of ideas I would never be able to take forward.
If this sounds familiar, you may also recognise that most ideas go nowhere. A passing thought, a scribble in the back of a notebook. Sometimes they sit in the “future research” paragraph of a paper few people read, or they are brushed aside because they are not yet well framed.
So I built a place for them. You can leave an idea here in your own words. The site shapes it into a clear research question, checks whether it could be researched and, if it qualifies, publishes it. If you need a topic, you can browse what others have left and take one further.
That way a good question does not disappear at the end of a paper, a vague idea gets a fair hearing, and someone may be inspired by an idea you had.
This is a one-man show, meant to be useful rather than fancy. Tell me what works, what does not and what is missing.
Frans Oosthuizen