What is the meaning of "Current" and "Previous" in the Statistics section? Previous to what? Today? I'm kind of confused.
Ask HN: feedback on my startup?
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Re: Ask HN: feedback on my startup?
#22This site is broken. You had an idea for a business model for Digg -- a better way to sell eyeballs, perhaps. But you don't have any eyeballs, and you don't seem to have any way of attracting them.
Side note: I think the title of this site is a reference to a joke I've enjoyed since I was 5: "What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rhino?"
Re: Ask HN: feedback on my startup?
#23I've no idea what the site does. I think it needs a big (1.5-2") banner with 2-3 sentences/graphics at the top explaining the purpose and process of the site. I just don't understand what it means to buy the xkcd:sleet story?
From reading the comments here it does sound interesting but such a new/different/unusual site that it needs a lot of explanation.
Re: Ask HN: feedback on my startup?
#24I'm surprised that people are confused by this. It's seems straightforward to me.
I purchased the top spot for my site for $5, but afterward I did some clicking around and couldn't find it. After taking about 10 mins to write this post, I went back to the site and it is there, however the logo didn't come through (It was there in steps 3 and 4 of the adding process while in "preview" mode). Could you look into that?
Overall, it could work, if it becomes a way for startups to show off their webapp or blog and doesn't get infiltrated by garbage. However the downfall might be the quality of the content. To get on the front page of digg, the content has to be interesting; to get on the front page of your site, all you need is $, which makes it easier on the publisher, but will make the content less interesting to the viewer (which = less viewers).
Re: Ask HN: feedback on my startup?
#25I spent half an hour going through the main links and the "how it works". I still have no clue what this site does and why should I use it.
The only opinion I could form was "It looks nice, but I have no clue what it is."
Re: Ask HN: feedback on my startup?
#26I spent half an hour going through the main links and the "how it works". I still have no clue what this site does and why should I use it.
The only opinion I could form was "It looks nice, but I have no clue what it is."
And I have to disagree with this, I think it looks nicely bad. It's bland and each link takes up too much screen real estate.
Re: Ask HN: feedback on my startup?
#27Why would I pay to have my site linked to on your site? Do you have enough traffic? How is it sustainable? After a while, all the top sites would be paid and thus of no interest to users who visit your site.
And on top of that, why would I visit your site to see who is paying the most for my attention? That's called advertising and this is a site devoted to mixing in paid placement with the voting public.
Why does this make it better than Digg / Reddit / Mixx / HN? I just don't get it and have no inclination to try hard to understand it.
Re: Ask HN: feedback on my startup?
#28Why would I pay to have my site linked to on your site? Do you have enough traffic? How is it sustainable? After a while, all the top sites would be paid and thus of no interest to users who visit your site.
Sounds like a new take on the million dollar homepage to me.