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Ask HN: Review our startup, Seekier.com - A search sharing network

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Ask HN: Review our startup, Seekier.com - A search sharing network

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Post by rooshdi »

http://seekier.com

Hello HN,

We just launched a new search sharing service, named Seekier, which allows users to share their searches instantly with other friends and create discussions and knowledge bases around these shared searches. We hope that this becomes a gateway for users to help each other discover more through suggestions from those following them. We also hope this allows users to gain a greater glimpse into the personal interests of their friends. Our profile pages are located at seekier.com/roosh and seekier.com/michael. We welcome you to try out the site out for yourselves and would appreciate any sort of feedback. Thank you HN.

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#2

Post by ScottWhigham »

Site looks pretty well done but it just doesn't seem like something I would use. I have Facebook if I want to share searches with my friends and I can just copy/paste my wikipedia/google/whatever URL there. I have HN, reddit, Digg, etc if I want to do w/ people I don't know IRL but who have the same interests as me.

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#4

Post by rooshdi »

ScottWhigham wrote: post #2

Site looks pretty well done but it just doesn't seem like something I would use. I have Facebook if I want to share searches with my friends and I can just copy/paste my wikipedia/google/whatever URL there. I have HN, reddit, Digg, etc if I want to do w/ people I don't know IRL but who have the same interests as me.

With Seekier, the search terms are the center of the conversation and Seekier is soley built around this focus. Thank you for the feedback.

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#5

Post by rooshdi »

p01nd3xt3r wrote: post #3

Your site is really well done but this seems like more of a feature than a stand alone product. What is the most compelling reason a user would have to use this and not an existing sharing service?

Seekier is built solely around seeing what people are searching in real-time. When users instantly see what others are searching, they can create discussions around these searches and help each other discover more. Thanks for the feedback.

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#8

Post by rooshdi »

angumagu wrote: post #6

Completely tertiary to the primary feedback being requested, but: Your default avatar (which appears to be a zoom-in of the logo) looks (to me) like a zoom-in of a line drawing of a woman's cleavage, with one nipple showing. edited: for punctuation

Ummm, yes, that's a possible viewpoint. We'll need to change the avatars. Thanks for the feedback.
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