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> getting users to join/participate, or even interested is going to be the biggest up-hill battle. Exactly, getting users to join is hard. It's a chicken and egg problem. It's not …

> the domain, if you look at it really quickly, appears to almost be 'metalmaniac' The domain name confuses people a lot, I've actually received similar comments before. Terrible n…

It's almost as if lessons in building a startup are more often than not, learned the hard way. Even people who have read blog posts and how-to books fail to recognise when the less…

Might seem a little far fetched, but Google and FB should offer a way to opt out of being tracked around on the web. The average revenue per user in North America is around $20 per…

ublock.org is controlled by Chris and is meant for his now unmaintained uBlock extension. Note to everyone : use uBlock origin only which is built by gorhill. ublock.org is not rel…

> Break the rules. Max out your credit. Survivorship bias? That's terrible advice. It worked out in their case and we get to hear their story, what about the people who did this an…

I think it would be better to focus on getting businesses who use open source software to pay the authors of the software. Businesses have money, most users of open source software…

It depends on the specific company, but lots of companies require a Linkedin profile to submit an application and some companies go as far as requiring an FB profile. And in cases …

Just curious, what are the specs of your VPS?

How many of those will actually bring in meaningful traffic? It would be nice to see a list from people who have successfully launched a product on multiple platforms and have traf…

You should have put up a demo site where users can try out the comment engine. Requiring the installation on a user's laptop/desktop is just too much friction, not to mention mobil…

I agree with you. The site is still very, very early and I am currently focusing on the UI and UX to make the site memorable. Thanks for the honest feedback!

My hypothesis is that 99% of the people who use Stackoverflow only visit the QA part of it and things like the community wiki and chatroom receive minimal traffic. From talking to …

That's what I am currently working on. The home page will primarily focus on explaining what the site is about. I am thinking about using gif+text to explain how the site works.

This is exactly the problem users are having. Since the purpose of the site and how it works is buried in the About page, people are clueless about what to do next. I am redoing th…

Getting the first hundred users in itself is not hard, post to forums where your users hang out and you'll be at 100 users fairly quickly. The hard part is getting users to keep co…

Can you share a link to the site?

After realizing that there is no common platform for people interested in Startup School (founders and spectators), I decided to start one on my site. The idea behind this communit…