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Re: Ask HN: Has anyone built a platform for sharing stuff online (curating)

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These are fine for sharing, but you have no ability to organize the stuff you're curating into a website-like presentation. You also can't control how its arranged (default chronological). I think there's a big opening for something like this, that lets people curate stuff they find and arrange the presentation. Also, if you're using a platform like FB or Twitter or Pinterest, you can't monetize, so basically you'll…

> you can't monetize you can't add your own ads, but you can become an influencer and monetize quite well.

It's a popular idea right now, but not viable for most businesses, I think. It's good for people who want to make themselves a sort of mini star, and people will send them products and then when they're really big also send them money. Seems so mickey mouse.

Re: Ask HN: Has anyone built a platform for sharing stuff online (curating)

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These are fine for sharing, but you have no ability to organize the stuff you're curating into a website-like presentation. You also can't control how its arranged (default chronological). I think there's a big opening for something like this, that lets people curate stuff they find and arrange the presentation. Also, if you're using a platform like FB or Twitter or Pinterest, you can't monetize, so basically you'll…

> plus it can all be deleted at any time if its on their platforms No service like that will ever be big (ie mass consumer), if it involves installing and operating the infrastructure yourself. There are no exceptions, there never will be. There's a reason automatic / SaaS blogs smashed the self hosting market. Handling all of that yourself is wildly obnoxious, if not entirely impossible, for an average person. Wordp…

Right, while 99% of people online prefer sharing/social networks to post stuff, content creators / businesses only use those to interact, while they host their content self-hosted.

What I'm trying (perhaps with not great success) to describe is something similar to WordPress, but made more for curation / organizing material found online and shared on pages designed yourself. And also easier to use just while doing regular stuff online (reading, finding stuff, watching videos), rather than having to go into the CMS of WordPress and "create a post"

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