The crew at Cambrian House are up to some wicked innovation. I caught their site from their ad on Techcrunch and I’m super impressed.

Cambrian House, a fellow Canadian Company based out of Calgary, encourages people to submit ideas which they will use the community to filter. The ones the community likes will be passed onto the development phase where a community of developers will build it. Finally they’ll throw the business out to market and then split the profits among all contributors based on the value they add in the process.

They call the process crowdsourcing and are are focused on web based applications that can be built in 6 weeks or less.
There are a bunch of ideas submitted already and they are pitted head to head in a voting to gauge which ideas the community likes. The development side I’ll assume is awaiting the effects of the voting to come into play. I’m anxious to see how the development process comes into play.

Their website is very engaging and informative and if they put the same effort into marketing the ideas that come from this, I think this could really work. From their guess the weight of their goat mascot contest to sending 1,000 pizzas to the Googleplex… they’re marketing certainly doesn’t fit in a tight little box.
As a guy with more ideas than time, I think this thing could really work.

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