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You are not Dan Libby, Ramanathan Guha, Dave Winer, or one of the members of the RSS-DEV Working Group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS#History So why are you claiming to be one of the inventors of RSS?
Any feedback would be wonderful. https://your-media.netlify.com/post/make-your-own-media/
I will also mention that https://www.stackbit.com/ is doing basically the same thing but more from a “Make life easier for Website designers” perspective.
From a marketing perspective, it’s really advisable to tell people what your thing is before asking for money. Not being snarky - from taking a quick glance I genuinely couldn’t tell what the thing is and I’m unlikely to sit through a video without at least some high level intro of what I’m going to get.
Had exactly the same feeling. Non-responsive, want to raise money, did RSS. Didn't get more info after a 10sec skim.
Serious question: Is here some voting ring upvoting or HN being hacked? Reading the weird submission and this thread full of confused users, I am surprised this got on #1 and even stays there.
Weird, did you delete the post about App Store approvals taking a long time even when all you change is text in the description? On the long list of your posts about your product, I don't see that one. I remember it not going very well for you.
You are not Dan Libby, Ramanathan Guha, Dave Winer, or one of the members of the RSS-DEV Working Group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS#History So why are you claiming to be one of the inventors of RSS?
Yes.. I was. the initial documents were never amended as RSS evolved. Here's one of the modules I created: http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/modules/link/ I think the archive is down but the rss-dev group has thousands of posts of me responding and supporting the dev or RSS. https://www.egroups.com/group/rss-dev Additionally, I don't really care about being famous for creating something and it's always seemed obnoxious…
From a marketing perspective, it’s really advisable to tell people what your thing is before asking for money. Not being snarky - from taking a quick glance I genuinely couldn’t tell what the thing is and I’m unlikely to sit through a video without at least some high level intro of what I’m going to get.
Thanks. I went back and forth on this and it was a tough call.. the plan was to get an initial crowdfunding video out and try to raise from people already passionate about Polar. I also didn't want to go into the grand vision without also discussing what we're working on. If this was successful I was going to invest more time in a kickstarter/indiegogo style campaign. This took a week of work already so was a bug chu…
Here's a better pitch based on your feedback and maybe more tailored to the Hacker News crowd. The Internet is broken as content primary pools behind walled gardens like Facebook and Twitter. These platforms are not open in the sense that the metadata is locked up inside them. Additionally, they're not very respective of the rights and privacy of their user base. Polar tries to reboot this by building out a generic d…
Who are the OSS or commercial competitors to Polar?
Here's a better pitch based on your feedback and maybe more tailored to the Hacker News crowd. The Internet is broken as content primary pools behind walled gardens like Facebook and Twitter. These platforms are not open in the sense that the metadata is locked up inside them. Additionally, they're not very respective of the rights and privacy of their user base. Polar tries to reboot this by building out a generic d…
You're not going to "reboot the internet" - that headline is a very grandiose claim likely to turn off most people on this forum.
From a marketing perspective, it’s really advisable to tell people what your thing is before asking for money. Not being snarky - from taking a quick glance I genuinely couldn’t tell what the thing is and I’m unlikely to sit through a video without at least some high level intro of what I’m going to get.
And even if I knew what I was supporting...I guess the plan is to raise $27/current user (which seems completely unrealistic) which will allow them to limp along until they definitely raise $150,000 from the "Internet as a whole", which will allow them to limp along until they definitely get approved for a whole bunch of grants? Nothing about that inspires any confidence and left me pretty convinced that I would be f…
Not to be a dick, but it sounds like this is roughly something not unlike a search engine. Google was built in a garage and available for free for its whole existence.
So as much as I believe in the abstract idea of making knowledge more accessible online, I'm not gonna pay before I see a working example of something better, and I might never pay.