Comments on: Kindling Hopes To Spark Your Company’s Best Ideas

By: Suggestion Box 2.0: Capturing And Evaluating Ideas Via The Web | Web Business Freedom

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:20:07 +0000

[...] are other similar products worth comparing (see a previous Kindling review by TechCrunch). Price would be one of my main considerations, and I wish Kindling had a lower pricing option [...]

By: John Harris

John Harris — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:15:03 +0000

sounds like another “me too” product – see BrightIdea.com, UserVoice,…

By: fb1301657

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:44:03 +0000

testing comments with fb connect

By: Ryan Petersen

Ryan Petersen — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:23:12 +0000

This is what Yahoo should be using to filter the good ideas emanating from their employees, not the designated “creative” people at Brickhouse. Of course, nobody should pay $5/month per user for this type of service.

By: Rob Reed

Rob Reed — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:31:00 +0000

This does look like a great new tool. Looking forward to trying it out.

IdeaBlob has voting and ideas, but it’s actually a community for young entrepreneurs to share, develop, and potentially collaborate on their new business ideas. At the end of each month, the idea with the most votes wins $10,000 with no strings. For example, Kindling could have been an idea submitted and developed through IdeaBlob, and it could have won the $10K. It still can, in fact. Any business idea, whether in the formative stages or fully operational, qualifies.

They are also taking the concept offline with http://www.bloblive.com. These events are streamed live on Ustream.tv, and they are heavily Twittered.

By: Eric Schmitter

Eric Schmitter — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:49:41 +0000

Yes – shareyourbrain.com does both – public, mass-targeted participation as well as private/internal support. Private group projects are of course hidden and much of the traffic consists of business projects that do not choose to make their projects public.

I agree that Kindling looks good and is as claimed – clean and to the point – but I argue the novelty.

By: Alex Morales

Alex Morales — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:31:58 +0000

Nice UI, pleasant look and feel and certainly *looks* good. Certainly fits the Web 2.0 design standards.

What’s missing a mapping with how real companies work or should work. If I look at the demo and not read the positioning, I would describe this as something between a task/project management and a wiki — both of which have plenty of incumbent solutions in real companies.

By: Serg Podtynnyi

Serg Podtynnyi — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:40:13 +0000

The similar functionality, but open-source ZoneIdeas
http://zoneideas.org/

By: Peter Corbett

Peter Corbett — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:01:08 +0000

Certainly a useful tool, but there are many ways to do this for free. You can simple integrated a wordpress plugin and create blog posts as ideas (comments used for..eh hem…commenting).

We did this here, but not for ‘new ideas’ but for apps entered into a contest:

http://www.apps...tion-directory/

By: Cameron

Cameron — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:04:00 +0000

More and more it seems other companies are making clones of popular sites but adapting the for the enterprise. I am always a fan of arc90 stuff thou

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:32:57 +0000

Hah. What’s the big deal. We made something very similar for a client of ours, and it took us about 4-5 days to customize WordPress to do exactly this.

By: Sam M

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:14:24 +0000

Cool.

By: Ivan Kedrin

Ivan Kedrin — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:59:21 +0000

Looks great.

Pricing suggestion: Price the product significantly lower on per user basis or have flat pricing with more costly enterprise features. Otherwise, it’ll be a tough sell.

Either way, good job Arc90!

Thanks,
Ivan

By: carlo

carlo — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:33:01 +0000

Based on my initial review, too expensive and there is no single user free account to try it out. I don’t want free 30 days, I am likely to forget to cancel. Lower your price. $1 per user sounds more like it, at the most.

By: coldbrew

coldbrew — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:20:18 +0000

Looks to me like shareyourbrain is targeted at social situations. I think kindling is targeted at businesses that don’t want these sites publicly available. ever. They need role-based account control, SSL, etc. Sounds like team/consensus building. It sounds novel and interesting to me (positioning is weird like that:).

If there is a way to do that with shareyourbrain, please let me know.

By: 社内のナイスアイデアをスパークさせるKindling

社内のナイスアイデアをスパークさせるKindling — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:30:37 +0000

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By: Jen Epting

Jen Epting — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:11:45 +0000

Great question; we do have special pricing for enterprise companies with more than 100 users. Larger organizations should feel free to get in touch with us to discuss pricing.

We’re working towards a non-hosted version of Kindling, though we don’t support it just yet. Organizations interested in hosting their own Kindling instances should contact us for more info.

Thanks,
Jen

By: good

good — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:01:53 +0000

I think this product is neatly done and the UI looks good. But, 5$ per user per month is too expensive.
Is there an upper limit. If its org of 1000 employees, its 5000/month??? Although I guess big companies wont use this as a platform to share thier ideas. Is there a non-hosted solution too, so data can be safe?

By: huh?

huh? — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:59:29 +0000

enterprises want to pay it adds crediblity to the product
why use oracle or iis when mysql or apache is available?

By: Eric Schmitter

Eric Schmitter — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:50:25 +0000

Many others are doing this already. Shareyourbrain.com has been doing this for years – as well as Crowdspirit, Fellowforce, etc.
$5/user/month is a bit pricey as well. In fact, Shareyourbrain.com is *free* to use – there is no reason to pay for these services when free alternatives are available.

By: Jen Epting

Jen Epting — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:33:21 +0000

Hi all,

Thanks to TechCrunch for the kind words. We’ll be watching this thread and are more than happy to chime in to answer readers’ questions or comments… so have at it!

Thanks again and happy Kindling,
Jen Epting
Kindling Client Relations

By: pthomas

pthomas — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:16:00 +0000

I’ve been using http://www.empl...ggestionbox.com … pretty good for small businesses, but this thing looks interesting as well …

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:53:37 +0000

Kindling is something that I want to use for my startup