I built a platform where audiences fund debates between public thinkers
Details
- External ID
- 45906223
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I built a platform where audiences fund debates between public thinkers
- Website domain
- logosive.com
- Launched
- Nov. 12, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 42
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8034934497816594
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hey HN, I built Logosive because I want to see certain debates between my favorite thinkers (especially in health/wellness, tech, and public policy), but there's no way for regular people to make these happen.With Logosive, you propose a debate topic and debaters. We then handle outreach, ticket sales, and logistics. After the debate, ticket revenue is split between everyone involved, including the person that proposed the debate, the debaters, and the host.Logosive is built with Django, htmx, and Alpine.js. Claude generates the debate launch pages, including suggesting debaters or debate topics, all from a single prompt (but the debates happen between real debaters).I’m now looking for help launching new debates, so if you have any topics or people you really want to see debate, please submit them at https://logosive.com.Thanks!
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI visibility and marketing tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Marketplace
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- audience-funded debates between public thinkers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The platform is a standard crowdfunding and ticketing marketplace with conditional Stripe pre-authorizations and CRUD campaign management.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Open to Debate, The Munk Debates, Jubilee, Eventbrite (for discoverability/infrastructure model)
Concerns raised: Charismatic debaters win over well-researched academics regardless of truth, Platform designed as valueless middleman with community doing all work, Preselling tickets to debates without confirmed participant agreement is misleading, Topic generation is easiest part; unclear differentiation from existing debate organizations, Science-based topics get hijacked by both sides selecting favorable studies
Feature requests: Clearer messaging about Kickstarter-style funding model for proposed debates, More opinionated design to differentiate from generic AI project aesthetic, Seed platform with non-mainstream debate topics and lesser-known participants
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 28 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #5 of 29 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Looks like the first mover among its competitors.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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