craigdalton

The plight of the trapped Thai soccer team has taken the world’s attention and every day there is speculation on possible rescue methodologies, ranging from waiting for months till the water recedes to teaching the boys to scuba dive. Thai authorities are being bombarded with offers of physical and intellectual assistance. Even Elon Musk is proposing a novel “air inflated walk through tunnel” idea. So I ask HN – is there a software application, existing or ready to be built, which can collate and rank crowd-sourced ideas in novel situations like this? Something with more features than up and down voting platforms.Some features I would propose:

1.Crowd review and voting would necessarily help make the ranking of ideas more efficient. 2.Ranking of ideas by the idea submitters level of expertise, both self and crowd assessed, would be important. 3.Idea submitters should highlight their level of confidence and potential gaps in their knowledge to aid others to review and or improve upon their idea 4.Crowd reviewers should be able to evolve or modify the idea. 5.When significant dependencies change, the ideas rank should change or be able to be changed through filtering. E.g. should there be a need to rapidly remove the children, then more rapidly implemented ideas would rank higher.

The idea submission could be structured in an online form as below: - Idea Title - Idea Description - Knowledge Gaps - My Expertise/Qualifications/Highest Level of Achievement in the relevant fields

The application would allow annotations on both the idea itself and the knowledge gaps – either to confirm or deny the feasibility of the idea or to evolve the idea and allow the online crowd reviewing the idea to modify according to new information added to the idea. Ranking would incorporate expertise. Such an application may have application in other settings. Anyone already built this or something like it that could be modified?