Forrst v3 Launched Today
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Forrst v3 Launched Today
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#2I'm interested to see how buying acorns works. It's sort of like a combination of virtual goods and advertising... I see programmers as being a hard crowd to sell to, (for example, see the second paragraph of this recent comment by patio11: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2018880) but maybe I'm wrong...
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#3I would have liked to apply for membership but it seems like a twitter account is required which I don't have, Disappointing.
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#4I would have liked to apply for membership but it seems like a twitter account is required which I don't have, Disappointing.
You can just leave a fake one - oversight on my part; it shouldn't be required.
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#5I'm interested to see how buying acorns works. It's sort of like a combination of virtual goods and advertising... I see programmers as being a hard crowd to sell to, (for example, see the second paragraph of this recent comment by patio11: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2018880 ) but maybe I'm wrong...
Very interesting. I think you may be right, but on the flip side, I'm eager to see if we can change that. We actually sold a bunch at a discount over the weekend (~500), so I'll be interested to see how much of that is pricing psychology vs. actual need. Either way, there are about 5 or 6 posts promoted actively, so people are using them. Can't wait to see how this plays out when there's much, much more data to look at.
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#6im pumped for the forrst ppl. as a n00b RoR hacker i've just been blown away by how helpful and supportive the community is over there.
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#7I've been a member of Forrst for a while and my enthusiasm has taken a nose dive in a past couple of months. The main problem is not the site design. It is the fact that Forrst is overrun with kids. "I am an aspiring 13 old designer, and here is something I did in a couple of hours because I was bored". That's not to say that are no gems in the feed, but these are typically cross-posts from Dribbble. Trying to build the designer and the developer community that is also friendly and helpful to the beginners is a noble undertaking. But it does not work. It is an utopia as it has very little appeal for professional designers and developers. Noobs wooting noobs on mediocre designs is not exactly a fostering environment. Still might work as an ad platform and a promotion vehicle of course.
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#8design nice, product name not so...
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#9I've been a member of Forrst for a while and my enthusiasm has taken a nose dive in a past couple of months. The main problem is not the site design. It is the fact that Forrst is overrun with kids. "I am an aspiring 13 old designer, and here is something I did in a couple of hours because I was bored". That's not to say that are no gems in the feed, but these are typically cross-posts from Dribbble. Trying to build…
So the exclusive community that doesn't allow regular folks in has let in some bad neighbors? Good thing they have kept their walls up...
Good lesson there...
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#10I would have liked to apply for membership but it seems like a twitter account is required which I don't have, Disappointing.
I looked at applying long ago, but the 'URL of something you've made' made me turn around and leave. I don't think it said anything about 'developers' at the time, though, just 'designers'. Oddly, I had a website that I designed (and that I used this time) but I didn't think to submit it.