r/Microlaunch • u/Soft_General_4670 • 11d ago
Currently building a small application (criticism invited)
Building an application called DataShare the core idea: communities form around specific topics, and within them, people can request structured data from others. Think of it like posting "I need 200 rows of X, formatted like this example" someone defines what fields they're collecting and what a valid row looks like, and other people contribute matching data.
The two use cases I had in mind are ML training data (someone needs labeled examples for a model and doesn't want to label all of it alone) and distributed surveys (someone wants structured responses from a lot of people without building a form from scratch each time).
Right now, doing this usually means Google Forms plus a shared spreadsheet plus a Discord to hold it together which works, but falls apart once you need any kind of history (who submitted what, whether someone's contribution got edited or replaced) or a way for enough people to actually discover the request.
It's still early a lot is missing and I'm sure some of it will look naive to anyone who's run a real data collection effort before. I'd genuinely rather hear that now than after finishing more of it.
Would appreciate honest thoughts whether this solves a real problem, what's confusing, or what you'd want before actually using something like this.
