Ask HN: What would you do with MySpace

Post by 1ba9115454 » Thu, Sep 14, 2017, 2:53 PM UTC

Post by tomascot » Sat, Sep 16, 2017, 3:35 AM UTC

ovrnightr wrote: post #3

yung_endian wrote: post #2

I would remake the site exactly as it was in 2006/7. Exactly. Down to the customizable HTML/CSS for profiles. It would be such a hit of post-irony nostalgia that nearly everyone who was on it would jump back to it. We would get millions of users in a week, easy. All it would take is one Buzzfeed-style article "Remember the MySpace of your youth? It's back" Then, showing the hockey stick growth, I'd sell it next week.

I like this idea, it's fascinating how willing young millennials (myself included) are to flock toward nostalgia. I used to take so much pride in my Myspace page, and even learned some basic HTML along the way. Another idea I thought of could be to retool the site into something different from simply a social network. I'm thinking of how the name could be used in a more literal way, while also staying in touch with t…