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Ask HN: I'm giving away my startup taketake.com for free - who wants it?

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Re: Ask HN: I'm giving away my startup taketake.com for free - who wants it?

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post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How and from what are those scores derived? I tested this by entering the address of my former blog. It ranked high in "vendor trustworthiness" even though there is no commercial aspect to the site at all. It has a high child safety rating even though some of those posts contain very strong language. Am I mistaken or is MyWOT useless?

Ratings come from users of the WOT browser extensions. Users are able to rate sites based on their personal experience with them. Sites with poor reputation yield warnings from the extension upon later visits. If no one has rated you, your rating will stay positive, or neutral, until someone does.

That's what I expected. Like I said, my test site wasn't "neutral", it was clearly rated positive on vendor reliability and child-friendliness. So what it boils down to is that someone arbitrarily gave taketake.com a very negative rating, not necessarily based on anything real. I'm not saying it may not be justified, but this kind of reputation system is clearly very flaky and prone to manipulation.

Re: Ask HN: I'm giving away my startup taketake.com for free - who wants it?

#52

No "startup" of any value would ever be given away, regardless of how burnt out its employees or owners might be. This is rediculous. Either this is an April Fools joke, or you never had the dedication to succeed in the first place.

We're not giving away 100% of it. We don't want to have an active role anymore and are willing to give away a majority equity stake to a qualified and competent team who would be taking charge of it. It's almost as if we were taking another co-founder on board. But because we would be taking an advisory role, it's just fair that (after vesting) the new people in charge have the majority stake in it.

Re: Ask HN: I'm giving away my startup taketake.com for free - who wants it?

#54

Ummm.... what's the date again people? This looks like way too much work to just "give it away". I was expecting an empty homepage with a single search box. Nice prank though. Me likey.

It's 100% real and not a prank, but yeah I guess I should have waited a day before making my post.

Re: Ask HN: I'm giving away my startup taketake.com for free - who wants it?

#56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So have invites been already sent out? Interested in an inside-view...

They haven't been sent out yet.

why weren't they sent out? Seems like you built it, but never gave it a chance to run.

Re: Ask HN: I'm giving away my startup taketake.com for free - who wants it?

#58
post #57

If this isn't an april fools joke why would you post it today? I call shenanigans. I guess we'll see tomorrow though.

It didn't cross my mind to be honest. Had much more serious stuff on my mind than April's fool when I posted this. It's not a prank.
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