Lists

#1

Post by zbravo » Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 7:23 PM UTC

Lists
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Re: Lists

#2

Post by r3bl » Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 7:43 PM UTC

GitHub turned out to be a pretty decent place for collaborating on various lists.

I mean, the list of awesome lists[0] is currently the 23rd most starred GitHub project.

I'm using GitHub both as a collaborative tool for creating lists and as my own tool for creating lists (as an example, a list of books I have read / am reading / planning on reading [1]).

[0] https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

[1] https://github.com/aleksandar-todorovic/notes/blob/master/00...

Re: Lists

#3

Post by napoleond » Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 7:48 PM UTC

I don't understand this post at all. The reason no one has built a monopoly around lists is that they are a ridiculously cheap commodity, both for the personal and network use cases.

Re: Lists

#4

Post by wdewind » Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 7:49 PM UTC

I think the reason no one has nailed the distributed list making part is because that's basically email, which it's really hard to improve substantially on, it turns out.

Re: Lists

#5

Post by pbreit » Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 7:56 PM UTC

napoleond wrote: post #3

I don't understand this post at all. The reason no one has built a monopoly around lists is that they are a ridiculously cheap commodity, both for the personal and network use cases.

Read like an Onion article to me.

Re: Lists

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 7:57 PM UTC

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Re: Lists

#8

Post by fomojola » Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 7:58 PM UTC

Odd: Pinterest seems to me like the breakout published list platform. No one said lists have to be words only: a Pinterest board is just a list with pictures.

Re: Lists

#9

Post by zzzmarcus » Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 7:59 PM UTC

The List App https://li.st/ is currently getting some traction by being promoted by a bunch of Hollywood people, notably the founder(?) B.J. Novak.

Re: Lists

#10

Post by state » Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 8:00 PM UTC

Simple, general-purpose personal publishing is not really a part of the modern web in any straightforward way. There are plenty of special-purpose 'listmaking' services — but it's hard to imagine one tackling the problem in the general case because it's just not a great business. Email gets shoehorned into this usecase because it's one of the only personal publishing tool that's totally decentralized and really easy to use.

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