As with most ideas...

...I got it while in the toilette. And as with most ideas, I was not thinking of anything in particular, it just came. The initial thought was to have a "thought database" (pardon the repetition): a place where people could express their thoughts freely and anonymously about anything. The idea made sense to me; after all "expressing oneself" on the internet was the biggest trend of the 21st century. So I simply set up a form and a database.

However, it soon dawned on me I could have done much more. Even though I have not abandoned the "thought database" idea, I decided to expand it a little bit. So instead of random thoughts, I would be looking for opinions on a certain subject. However, I never liked implementations such as 'like' or 1-10 scores, or little stars, they always seemed a bit anachronistic. Enter the idea to have an algorithm that analyses what you've written and decides whether your opinion is positive or negative, and all stops in between.

That's the main idea, lots of more thoughts to come!