Ask HN: What happened to Mixergy?

After a year break I came to the site and..

1/3 the site is commercials for 'courses'. 1/3 the site 'advice' from 20 year old who have yet to make any real business

And 9/10 out of the remaining interesting interviews are paid.

Half hour of browsing and I ended up d/l one interview that I am only half interested in.

I understand Andrew's want to make money, but it looks like the quality dropped sharply too

I watched/read some of their interviews. They were interesting, and some give us a very good picture on what the process of starting a business is like in the early stages. he covers a wide range of businesses too, which I like (sites from Thrillist to DailyBurn). However, I wouldn't pay for the content because it ultimately didn't teach me anything I didn't already know.

I did like the one video talking about someone's failure, though. I think they need to do more of it: we can learn more from failures sometimes.

Quality seems to be always improving to me. Occasional questionable guest but that's to be expected when you pump out so many interviews. Having random people on there is good I think it exposes everyone to new ideas.

He has really focused on extracting actionable tactics. Check out the courses section. Worth the money I think.

btw as far as I know you can still get every single interview free on itunes.

The only thing I would like to see is a short summary of points/tactics/interesting stuff for each interview. No-one has time to watch them all or read all the transcripts.

I agree. People that have followed Mixergy know the content is worthy. However, I can certainly see how someone finding it for the first time might be turned off.

My main constructive criticism would be this:

Don't make people spam their Twitter followers just to view the premium samples.

a) It annoys people that don't use Twitter (yes, we exist) b) It makes me have to have a relationship with you before I've even evaluated your content.

In my mind, it's more effective to allow people to sample your premium content with the least amount of resistance.

Keep the list building separate from the sample content. You can always find something to give away specifically for the list subscribers.

I understand what 'donky_cong' is saying. I have nothing against the quality of videos or the content provided, it's great stuff if you're willing to dig deeper than scrolling past all the class titles, but at first sight the website comes off like one of those one page "I made $1m in 365 days" sites. However, his content is of quality, but the design implementation could be better - not an easy problem to solve and I am sure he thinks about this a lot.