Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by GigabyteCoin » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 3:32 AM UTC

I'm curiuos what pg thinks about this or if he cares at all.

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

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Post by evoloution » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 3:32 AM UTC

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.

Boredom brings me to HN and boredom makes me wanna learn new things. I think it is a great name.

Plus broad audience, I have only met a few bankers that are not bored with their jobs...

Has links to some nice articles btw

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

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Post by GrahamsNumber » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 3:35 AM UTC

GigabyteCoin wrote: post #30

kumarski wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The creator needs to buy boardbanker.com as well.

Why? Who owns hackernews.com?

board banker, as in a typo. I think he's implying people will misspell it a lot.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 3:36 AM UTC

kumarski wrote: post #22

tdeangelis wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is none. I have made this website because I wanted something like Hacker News for finance and economics and there wasn't one.

How long/how much does it cost to run this? I'm curious. Well done with it. Other than a name change, I think this is very useful.

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

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Post by nhsoccer7 » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 3:36 AM UTC

This is great.

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

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Post by sgdesign » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 3:37 AM UTC

Sparky_twoshoes wrote: post #7

Hey! Awesome job. Can you please tell me how I can do this, albeit for the natural resource and conservation sector (which really needs disrupting)? Is there some off-the-peg software that I can use?

You might want to check out Telescope: http://telesc.pe

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

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Post by shubhamjain » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 3:39 AM UTC

I am working on a StackExchange style of subject oriented news communities with Digg like content curation but I am having trouble thinking what will be substantially new in my idea that will differentiate it from (sub)reddit.

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

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Post by _xhok » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 3:40 AM UTC

I love how the the HTML source generated by news.arc sets it apart. It has no boilerplate. It's literally: HTML tag, news.css, favicon, upvote JavaScript, title, humongous table.

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

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Post by stevenj » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 3:47 AM UTC

As someone who's tried starting a new HN for business news (forlue.com, now defunct) after New Mogul left us I found the most difficult thing was getting a niche community to consistently submit stories.

If you know of a small group of people (ideally in the financial/money industry) who'd be interested in this, get them to use it amongst each other to trade stories during the day.

I still believe there's a market for this. It just needs to start in the hands of small group of people who'll constantly use it throughout the day to communicate with each other about business-related stories.

If you get people to consistently submit good stories, readers will follow, and then some time after, albeit slowly, commenters.

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

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Post by billmalarky » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 3:50 AM UTC

kumarski wrote: post #22

tdeangelis wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is none. I have made this website because I wanted something like Hacker News for finance and economics and there wasn't one.

How long/how much does it cost to run this? I'm curious. Well done with it. Other than a name change, I think this is very useful.

Hosting something like this would be very cheap. A $40 a month VPS could handle it for a while and if it outgrows that then it will be worth something.