o2oo Feature Requests

Must-Have homepage design:

Homepage that showcases a new behaviour HalfMakery is about (from research questions to a final product, so that inventors live on ideas).

Homepage for logged-in users showcases three columns:

• Questions, Ideas, Projects, Products in the middle column,
• User's P&L, My Projects, My Interests (meta-categories) on the left column,
• Latest Comments and Results (only title) on the right column,
• Top menu shows Questions, Ideas, Projects, Products; Languages; Logout.

This design is drawn here.

Community features:

• Button "Open for collaborations" in Question, Idea and Project levels, to encourage strangers to help each other, to create ideas and prototype together. (I create ideas through conversations/synthesis).

Financial features:

• "Donate" button within Project page to replicate Patreon functionality of allowing other users to donate money to each other.

• Allow preorders of products, so that as a maker I don't need to setup Kickstarter.

Ownership features:

• Enable to add custom idea types "Preview" (of invention). This would be useful for inventors who are about to prototype an invention, patent it and bring it to market.

Question: When adding a question, and wanting to select some existing questions as parents or children, how to know if a Question is a parent or a child?

Feature requests for adding a Question or Idea:

• a button that communicates a social interaction request between 0oo users (an invite to "be my mirror! help me formulate my question or idea”). this button would help users like me, who love synthesising their thoughts through voice (when talking to someone) and only then writing down a clear description of the question or idea.

Feature requests for Projects level:

• somehow showcasing results that have "video demos" attached. I'd watch those published by other users for sure for inspiration across disciplines.

I suggest the home page having a section called random above problems/puzzles

It would be useful if in User Profile page, user's problems/ideas/projects would be grouped under Top Categories (e.g. Education, Tech, Society, etc)

This way it's easier to see common interests between different people