Review my startup
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#2I launched the site in late Oct of last year and it is growing by leaps and bounds. It's built with Ruby on Rails. My hope is to build a community around sharing links strictly related to development and design. No general tech news links or other distractions. I'd love to get some feedback on it from the HN community.
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#3Almost forgot to mention the most important aspect, the site is invite-only. It's read-only to the public.
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#4While I do think the design is very well done, I'm not sure I see the benefit of something like this, vs. Delicious and other social bookmarking things.
Keeping it a gated community is going to make taking off VERY difficult, unless you have some over-sharing, highly prolific people in out of the gate (no pun intended).
While there may be groups that do want to keep their sharing semi-private, are there enough to build a meaningful audience (read: potential advertising revenue stream) for the service, or will you just charge for it (saw no mention of this, but may have missed it).
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#5Almost forgot to mention the most important aspect, the site is invite-only. It's read-only to the public.
This becomes confusing - it seems at first like a social bookmarking site, but then there's resumes. It's a gated community, but read only to the public.
I'm not sure any of this is BAD, and I may just be stupid, but the 'why the hell should I care' bit seems to be confusing? Is it a job board, or a news/content sharing site? Both?
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#6Seems like it's forrst.com + resumes.
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#7By the way, if you want to read the public posts you can find them at http://talentopoly.com/posts
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#8I launched the site in late Oct of last year and it is growing by leaps and bounds. It's built with Ruby on Rails. My hope is to build a community around sharing links strictly related to development and design. No general tech news links or other distractions. I'd love to get some feedback on it from the HN community.
I recently(ish) starting to work on web design after years in desktop product management. A community like this could be terribly helpful.
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#9While I do think the design is very well done, I'm not sure I see the benefit of something like this, vs. Delicious and other social bookmarking things. Keeping it a gated community is going to make taking off VERY difficult, unless you have some over-sharing, highly prolific people in out of the gate (no pun intended). While there may be groups that do want to keep their sharing semi-private, are there enough to bui…
I do have a few members who share ~5 links per day on the site including myself. In a given day the site receives ~20 new links. Most of this is just now starting to gain momentum as Feb 1st is when the site launched with a new design and a few new features.
The site has close to 100 return visitors daily and building.
Revenue is not a concern at the moment.
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#10I launched the site in late Oct of last year and it is growing by leaps and bounds. It's built with Ruby on Rails. My hope is to build a community around sharing links strictly related to development and design. No general tech news links or other distractions. I'd love to get some feedback on it from the HN community.
I recently(ish) starting to work on web design after years in desktop product management. A community like this could be terribly helpful.
Excellent, be sure to request an invite and I'll make sure you get one.