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Why NO ACCESS to the idea I submitted?

I am finally ready to start working on my idea so I decided to submit an idea to the idea board. I was pleasantly surprised when it walked me through adding cards about my idea, in a modified form of a business model canvas.

THEN I became HORRIFIED to find that I could not access any of the content of my card THAT I HAD ENTERED without paying for credits, even though before I hit what must have been the limit those card were fully accessible.

I went to my profile and there was no "My Ideas" link, so AFAICT there is no way to even find my way back to my idea if I didn't bookmark it (not that bookmarking it matters because I cannot access the content I entered.)

I am not against paying, nor paying for a subscription, but this has SCARED ME to subscribe because the $199/year subscription claims to offer "Free credits for the Idea Board" but does not say how many, nor if $199 will be enough to get my ideas back or not.

WHAT IS UP WITH THIS?!?

P.S. I can always recreate them, but holding them hostage is REALLY not cool.

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Ideas and Validation
on August 3, 2025
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