There are a few differences, mostly the 'users who liked this idea also liked' and the ability to tell if a person voted for their own idea.

Buggy, though. One I just posted is listed twice for some reason, and there doesn't appear to be a a way to delete the double.

Our aim in creating this site is to be a full bakery. Ideas on half bakery often get removed when they are actually baked. For us, that's okay. We'd like to know if existing ideas can be modified or improved upon.

We have worked with Jutta Degener, the creator of halfbakery in developing this site. Indeed, we first went to her to license the software. Alas, her code was written in a way that violates the agreements of most commercial hosts. Our acknowledgement to her at the bottom of our site reflects our inspiration.

In the long run, the difference between half bakery and whynot in the end will be the community of users and the interests that they have. For example, the town of Clovis using WhyNot as a public forum is not something that wold really have a home on half bakery.

Right now the whynot site is still working out the bugs. It didn't use to be slow. But after a nice mention on public radio, we were getting 150 hits per second and our web host (Westhost) basically shut us down. I've since upgraded to their biggest package and hope that will improve things.

Thanks for all your feedback, good and bad.

I'm still trying to figure out the reason for this site. If the point is to, for example, improve on existing products then this is an idea and suitable for the halfbakery. If instead this site will allow people to propose ideas that already exist as if they are novel, well that's just useless.

Oh, and it's Degener.

//inpiration//

Freudian slip?

Barry - what kind of shaver do you use to get that "I'm in academia" kind of beard?

I do like the 'industry responds' feature; it may help to keep a level of professionalism.

Barry, you should probably know that there was a recent idea and link from the halfbakery to here, so that would probably explain the recent influx, in case you're wondering.

Noted is the exclusionistic use of editing.

This does seem to be a rather sad copy of the halfbakery at the moment.

Would it perhaps be prudent to make some design changes so as to make the similarity less marked? The black and red colour scheme is also a little harsh.

I'm quite positive a strong identity will form. These things don't happen overnight. I'm sure in time to come we'll see a distinct and natural difference between the halfbakery and here, and there'll be 'hb' kinds of ideas, and 'wn' kinds of ideas, implicitly. Other sites too - perhaps there'll be a metaphysics idea site and a drunken ranting idea site in the fullness of time. In fact, the latter pair would be ideal - one could simply ignore them wholesale if that were the case.

Hmm, I'd not come across halfbakery before - and it seems much better than this site :-(

(I'm thinking there's a natural monopoly to do with userbase.)

I'm deserting...

Bye ;-(