One suggestion: - Order by column (especially by date for tech).
Thanks for the feedback. It is on my to build list. Bumped it up : )
Show HN: Find recommendations from good people
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Plan on taking investors? Because that last sentence might make it a challenge, much as I agree with it.
You have got to be kidding. A list of recommendations is something that is worthy of taking investors?
"Worthy"? Taking investment is not something special, something that needs to be your one and only life mission before you're allowed to do it. If someone thinks an investment to the site will yield a bigger return back, that's enough. Don't let ideas like that prevent you from taking a go at reaching the potential of your idea.
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#63A few ideas: - Link the name to a list with all the recommendations by that person, use the date for a link to the place where the recommendation was made (using the date for a permalink is convention). - Link tags. - Show everyone who recommended something and sort by how many people recommended it. (For instance The Pragmatic Programmer is recommended by Joel Spolsky, Steve Yegge and Jeff Atwood.) - Use Amazon Affi…
Thanks for the feedback. I'm building one useful feature a time. No to amazon affiliates.
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All valid points which I too am pondering on but don't have clear answers. I checked your profile but couldn't find an email to contact you. I'd love to discuss details once I have written down my thoughts.
Maybe there would be a chance these experts would answer an email, some of them at least.. the problem would be, of course, to identify them.
I agree. The hack I'm using is PeopleRank (check my comment above).
Re: Show HN: Find recommendations from good people
#65A few ideas: - Link the name to a list with all the recommendations by that person, use the date for a link to the place where the recommendation was made (using the date for a permalink is convention). - Link tags. - Show everyone who recommended something and sort by how many people recommended it. (For instance The Pragmatic Programmer is recommended by Joel Spolsky, Steve Yegge and Jeff Atwood.) - Use Amazon Affi…
Thanks for the feedback. I'm building one useful feature a time. No to amazon affiliates.
I like this. Thanks for sharing.
I hope you will consider one thing, and please don’t mistake it for political correctness. The phrase “from good people” is distasteful and I think we’re all better off not implying such a thing as “bad people”. If the intent is to define a division, it’s important to be specific lest we undermine our egalitarian goals. I know you don’t mean it to be exclusionary, and probably instead aim to evoke positive feelings. But, for me it does the opposite. People accustomed to being excluded are likely to read “from good people” and wonder if that includes them or not.
Re: Show HN: Find recommendations from good people
#66A few ideas: - Link the name to a list with all the recommendations by that person, use the date for a link to the place where the recommendation was made (using the date for a permalink is convention). - Link tags. - Show everyone who recommended something and sort by how many people recommended it. (For instance The Pragmatic Programmer is recommended by Joel Spolsky, Steve Yegge and Jeff Atwood.) - Use Amazon Affi…
Thanks for the feedback. I'm building one useful feature a time. No to amazon affiliates.
Consider smile.amazon.com links or affiliates for charities like electronicfro-20 (EFF) though.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm building one useful feature a time. No to amazon affiliates.
I like this. Thanks for sharing. I hope you will consider one thing, and please don’t mistake it for political correctness. The phrase “from good people” is distasteful and I think we’re all better off not implying such a thing as “bad people”. If the intent is to define a division, it’s important to be specific lest we undermine our egalitarian goals. I know you don’t mean it to be exclusionary, and probably instead…
I agree. I settled on the word good because I wasn't able to find a good word (no pun intended).
Re: Show HN: Find recommendations from good people
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You have got to be kidding. A list of recommendations is something that is worthy of taking investors?
"Worthy"? Taking investment is not something special, something that needs to be your one and only life mission before you're allowed to do it. If someone thinks an investment to the site will yield a bigger return back, that's enough. Don't let ideas like that prevent you from taking a go at reaching the potential of your idea.
You're right, it (if we're talking about VC) isn't something special. And a highly specific, narrow way of bringing something into being that makes no sense a lot of the time.
Living in San Francisco, you hear just how narrow this focus gets, with 20-somethings walking down the sidewalk making conversation about how to monetize this public accommodation or that human impulse. It strikes me as an odd mixture of funny and repellent, and at least some of those folks will grow up someday.
It does mean a lot of folks are concentrating on a crowded path that smart people will avoid. I mean, sure, if your big idea is in enterprise storage or EV, that's not happening with investment. A recommendation website? If you're not building to flip (which would be stupid anyway), it would be crazy to go begging to build.