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Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by beachstartup » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 4:45 PM UTC

jackgavigan wrote: post #97

For context: I'm sat on a trading floor in the City of London right now. I had a similar idea (inspired by Slashdot) about ten years ago but, like so many of my great ideas (e.g. time travel, teleportation), I never got around to implementing it. A site like BoredBanker.com will almost certainly be targeted by wannabes, trolls and banker-haters. If you don't keep them off the site, real bankers will be turned off by…

it's not a coincidence of the audience and the topic that the top comment is basically just scheming of ways to make it more elite and exclusive instead of how to create a self-policing meritocracy.

why do you think HN is successful? did they limit registrations to @yahoo.com, @redhat.com, @microsoft.com, @google.com, @venturecapitalisthere.com? is that why the SN ratio is high?

and besides, doesn't bloomberg already have forums and chat for this exclusive bank crowd already? what is the point of recreating that on the web if someone like me can't see it?

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by my3681 » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 5:08 PM UTC

Just published an app to the Google Play store for your site. It's called Banker News and is available here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mattyork.b...

It is also open sourced here:

https://github.com/MatthewYork/BankerNews

An iOS version will be available soon. Great work! I love finance, so I hope the site does well.

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by taskstrike » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 5:11 PM UTC

I feel out of the HN clones, designer news is the best because it didn't copy HN. Love to see better design on boredbanker.

Also, is it illegal to copy the HN design?

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by tdeangelis » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 5:25 PM UTC

manmal wrote: post #134

I made this HN reader app for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manuelmaly... Source code is here: https://github.com/manmal/hn-android Would you be ok with me porting it to BoredBanker? It seems that you copied HN's DOM pretty closely, so that might be a technical no-brainer?

Certainly! go ahead

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 5:29 PM UTC

Dirlewanger wrote: post #116

Brakenshire wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Metafilter is another example of a website which has maintained its character. They ask for a $5 lifetime membership fee.

Retained its character at the expense of being stuck in the mid 2000s. For a modern aggregator they have a shit layout to be honest. A site that gets as much traffic as they do and they still have flat comments?? Inexcusable.

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Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by Dwolb » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 6:44 PM UTC

dfc wrote: post #137

Dwolb wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The above suggestion is an idea. Understood that today GMAT might not allow such functionality, but the organization has the data internally to send score reports. Correct, not supported today, but feasible with business development.

How is GMAT going to monetize the easy score verification? And is that effort going to be worth the additional revenue? I can't imagine there is a big market for GMAT score reporting outside of b-school apps. I think most employers just accept self reporting or a copy of the score report in pdf.

I wouldn't think it'd generate very much money to directly monetize easy score verification other than as an additional data point for advertisers.

However, I do believe easy score verification could be part of an overall strategy to increase the GMAT business. The thinking is that if society started using indicators of intelligence for various reasons (e.g. entry into an exclusive online forum, government civil servants employment, running for Congress...) the indicator of intelligence that is preferred by society could sell more tests. GMAT could create an advantage in the marketplace by being the easiest score to electronically verify.

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by dfc » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 7:07 PM UTC

Dwolb wrote: post #146

dfc wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is GMAT going to monetize the easy score verification? And is that effort going to be worth the additional revenue? I can't imagine there is a big market for GMAT score reporting outside of b-school apps. I think most employers just accept self reporting or a copy of the score report in pdf.

I wouldn't think it'd generate very much money to directly monetize easy score verification other than as an additional data point for advertisers. However, I do believe easy score verification could be part of an overall strategy to increase the GMAT business. The thinking is that if society started using indicators of intelligence for various reasons (e.g. entry into an exclusive online forum, government civil serv…

I do not think the GMAT is a good indicator for civil service positions. Certainly no better than any of the state civil service exams and at the federal level the civil service exams were deemed to cause problems with affirmative action policies. The military has the ASVAB and I can't imagine anyone saying the GMAT is superior to the ASVAB. The small "d" democrat in me finds exams for public office abhorrent and I would hope that they would run into many legal challenges.

I scored a 720 on the GMAT. I do not think you should make any assumptions about my performance in a government position from that test result. All that the 720 indicates is that I am a skilled test taker.

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by taude » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 7:16 PM UTC

Jagat wrote: post #3

nicklovescode wrote: post #2

I'm not a member of your target audience, but I can't imagine BoredBanker is a very motivating name for people to start interesting discussions.

Banker News

Needs more Silicon Valley ring to it....maybe BankrNooz.io. (I joke).

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by pseut » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 7:55 PM UTC

interstitial wrote: post #58

So it's like HN with more bitcoin?

fucking jesus, I hope it's the opposite

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by Dwolb » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 8:04 PM UTC

dfc wrote: post #147

Dwolb wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't think it'd generate very much money to directly monetize easy score verification other than as an additional data point for advertisers. However, I do believe easy score verification could be part of an overall strategy to increase the GMAT business. The thinking is that if society started using indicators of intelligence for various reasons (e.g. entry into an exclusive online forum, government civil serv…

I do not think the GMAT is a good indicator for civil service positions. Certainly no better than any of the state civil service exams and at the federal level the civil service exams were deemed to cause problems with affirmative action policies. The military has the ASVAB and I can't imagine anyone saying the GMAT is superior to the ASVAB. The small "d" democrat in me finds exams for public office abhorrent and I w…

Interesting! I was skeptical of the GMAT until I studied and took the test. My personal opinion is GMAT is a very difficult test and studying for the test sharpened my own writing, logic, and reasoning skills. I am very impressed with the cognitive ability of the test takers in the very highest percentage.