Ask HN: Hacker News Morning Standup

For a couple week now, myself and a few friends have been doing a biweekly 15m morning call where we check-in and see how everyone's side project is doing (what we accomplished since last time and what we plan on doing). The goal is to hold each other accountable, and provide quick feedback / ideas. Everyone works a full-time job and we're fairly spread out geographically, but this has proved to be quite motivating and some good feedback / ideas have come out for each of our projects.

I'm wondering if this "morning standup" idea could be expanded to include the HN crowd. The goal would be to bring more diverse opinions to the table from people with different backgrounds, skillsets, etc. I want to propose 2 ideas that I'd love to get feedback on and gage interest. I don't see either as paid services, but completely free on some open-source platform.

#1 - HN users are grouped into "teams" of 5 - each working on a side projects. Once a week, the members do a 15m standup where they share their progress since the last time they met, and what they plan on accomplishing this week.

#2 - The goal here is to encourage ideas from different industries to mix together. Every week, 10 random HN users are assigned a conference call where they get 2m to speak about an innovation / problem in their field.

Let me know what you guys think.