Scaling customer-sourced product design
I’m going to start re-posting my comments on other sites here, most of the thoughts I have that are worth sharing don’t make it to ethanbauley.com:
To borrow a heuristic from Umair: of markets, networks, and communities, communities are definitely the messiest. And probably the most valuable.
I like the idea of building apps “on top” of community message boards. Thanks for the thought.
I also think the GetSatisfaction is probably the most brilliant service out there in terms of a) organizing something in a macro sense b) lowering interaction costs for individuals and c) being a scalable application.
To steal even more Umair, we can create a lot of value by combining M/N/C’s: Adwords = Market + Network.
I can only imagine there’s an application out there that could combine a community with a market to achieve some kind of scalable “crowdsourced product design” application.
If you hear any pitches on this, ping me because I’d love to work with them ;-)
http://bijansabet.com/post/39556615/thinking-about-message-boards
