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Re: Review my startup, Lettur

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Post by theDoug »

Turing_Machine wrote: post #6
RobMcCullough wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, I called it a weekend project until I got to debugging. Just kidding, I am pushing the anonymous part as it is a bit of a buzz word these days. I am in the process of reworking the UI, and may re-brand as more of a simple web publishing solution. I think there is a ton of potential use cases. Eventually I want to give the users full control over the page style, or possible offer different page templates. This w…

Attractive site. One point, though... the kind of people who place value on anonymity are probably also the kind of people who disallow Javascript, Google APIs, etc. Just sayin'. :-)

And would also likely not wish to pay to have advertisements removed, lest a payment carrier have their information.

Re: Review my startup, Lettur

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Post by mindctrl »

I'm not quite sure how the anonymous part works. If I post a blog there anonymously, how is it going to be discovered? Random chance that someone stumbles across it? Or perhaps I share it via social media, email, another web site? In which case the anonymity vanishes unless I've created fake profiles, in which case I just use those instead. Like an anonymous blogger account.

I suppose I should clarify... the "read" portion leaves much to be desired at this point in terms of discovery. It's a long scrolling list of hard to read content. Categorization maybe?

Re: Review my startup, Lettur

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Post by nkohari »

tansey wrote: post #8

So... it's just like thrsti? (www.thrsti.com) Full disclosure - I am helping with thrsti, we are deploying a ton of new features over the coming weeks, but lettur seems very similar to our initial release. It's very interesting what people will post just to get it off their chest.

You're assuming that the OP has heard of thrsti. Shockingly, not everyone on the internet has heard of or cares what you're working on.

Re: Review my startup, Lettur

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Post by mmalivuk »

RobMcCullough wrote: post #4
mikerhoads wrote: post #2

Anonymous message boards can be fun sites but I'm not exactly sure this in itself could really be considered a startup. Is there something I'm missing?

Well, I called it a weekend project until I got to debugging. Just kidding, I am pushing the anonymous part as it is a bit of a buzz word these days. I am in the process of reworking the UI, and may re-brand as more of a simple web publishing solution. I think there is a ton of potential use cases. Eventually I want to give the users full control over the page style, or possible offer different page templates. This w…

It seems like you don't really have a direction and you're just using the "anonymous" buzzword and hoping to hit something.

You're limited in terms of monetization as no one will be paying you and leaving a money trail to themselves if the entire principle is to be anonymous.

What's special about this as opposed to just creating a tumblr account using fake information? There they already have control over the styles. How are you obscuring user information on your end. In other words, is it anonymous, but you have records that could identify every user on your server?

Re: Review my startup, Lettur

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Post by Xk »

Don't use a blacklist to filter out XSS attacks.

Here's a valid title:

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The other stuff is just there to mess up your filter. Just escape , ", and '. And then test it to make sure there aren't other clever attacks.

Re: Review my startup, Lettur

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Post by biot »

RobMcCullough wrote: post #4
mikerhoads wrote: post #2

Anonymous message boards can be fun sites but I'm not exactly sure this in itself could really be considered a startup. Is there something I'm missing?

Well, I called it a weekend project until I got to debugging. Just kidding, I am pushing the anonymous part as it is a bit of a buzz word these days. I am in the process of reworking the UI, and may re-brand as more of a simple web publishing solution. I think there is a ton of potential use cases. Eventually I want to give the users full control over the page style, or possible offer different page templates. This w…

To me, the acid test is that if you haven't formed a separate legal entity for this site then it's not a startup. Of course, someone can do this for their weekend project of building a lemonade stand so perhaps it's best said that it's a necessary but not sufficient condition.

Re: Review my startup, Lettur

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Post by aDemoUzer »

tansey wrote: post #8

So... it's just like thrsti? (www.thrsti.com) Full disclosure - I am helping with thrsti, we are deploying a ton of new features over the coming weeks, but lettur seems very similar to our initial release. It's very interesting what people will post just to get it off their chest.

should change name cause it sounds like thirsty, but u spell it differently. Would be impossible for me to correctly type the sites name at the first try.

Re: Review my startup, Lettur

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Post by itsnotvalid »

The claim for anonymous blogging would not be held because of the limitation of TCP/IP, where the origin of packets, without special treatment, would be exposed to your server. Nobody can be certain that your server is not compromised at any time (which we cannot even assume that you are not spying on the logs, for example), a claim in such degree may actually got believed by less technical users of your app.

Please consider this as anonymity may be live or death situation to some people in the world.

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