Post on Medial

Why do you think Medial is not one such platform?

Great idea

Upvotes/likes can't signal if people will use that product. Liking a post/pitch doesn't take anything away from you. There should be a better metric. For example, number of people who commit to the product/idea. Commitment can be in the form of token/prebook money or registering to join the waiting list using there mobile number etc.

I'm skeptical this would really work well in practice. Most legitimate seed investors aren't going to put much stock into upvotes - they'll want to kick the tires themselves on an idea and meet the founders before considering investing. Maybe for smaller crowdfunding rounds?

But woh ek gamble hi hua..straight up gambling

I actually really like this concept for the "pre-product" stage. Just having an upvote mechanic for evaluating raw startup ideas could be valuable, almost like a Kickstarter but just for feedback/funding interest before anything exists.

I can see both pros and cons. Pro is it gives founders without connections a way to get in front of investors. Con is that you'd likely get flooded with a ton of low-quality ideas and it could be a slog for investors to find diamonds in the rough. Some kind of quality curation would be needed.

Doesn't something like this already exist with platforms like Angellist and StartEngine for crowdfunding investing? I guess those don't really capture pre-seed/seed stage, more like Series A and later. So maybe there is a niche to fill here.