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Re: Review my startup

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Post by jaredbrown »

blhack wrote: post #17
JohnTitus wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How did you overcome the "chicken and egg problem" of getting the first batch of people to join?

If it's just link aggregation, you can do it yourself. It's difficult, but possible. When I was doing newslily (which isn't entirely abandoned, but we've moved on to new projects), we pretty consistently had better quality links than reddit or digg, but doing so took a ton of work on the part of my co-founder and I. I haven't signed up for OP's service, so I can't say with certainty that it's a link aggregator, but t…

It's not so much about searching out the content as it is about choosing what to post. It's easy to find links today with Twitter, etc. But it's hard to predict the ones that will be popular. I rely on my Twitter favorites and several other interesting sources for links. I have definitely learned a lot and know of some great, niche ways to find high quality links now.

Re: Review my startup

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Post by kqueue »

I noticed that loading the main page results in requesting 19 css files and 8 js files. I suggest combining those to provide a better loading experience.

Re: Review my startup

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Post by jaredbrown »

Thank you to everyone who has checked out the site. I've gotten to have some interesting discussions in this comment thread. The HackerNews community has yet again lived up to my expectations. I'll try to keep the community up to date on the progress of this startup periodically.

Re: Review my startup

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Post by jaredbrown »

kqueue wrote: post #32

I noticed that loading the main page results in requesting 19 css files and 8 js files. I suggest combining those to provide a better loading experience.

Nice job noticing that. This is a high priority on the roadmap. I have some cool compressions and reductions planned for the site's assets.

Re: Review my startup

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Post by kongqiu »

cletus wrote: post #15

This looks like a crowdsourced curation of content relevant to a particular vertical (have I thrown in enough buzzwords?). That actually seems like a reasonable idea. The problem you may have is that a site like Stackoverflow could (and IMHO should) copy it and integrate it into what they have. It actually seems like a good extension for the SO model.

That first sentence is amazing. Where did you get your MBA? :)

Re: Review my startup

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kongqiu wrote: post #36
cletus wrote: post #15

This looks like a crowdsourced curation of content relevant to a particular vertical (have I thrown in enough buzzwords?). That actually seems like a reasonable idea. The problem you may have is that a site like Stackoverflow could (and IMHO should) copy it and integrate it into what they have. It actually seems like a good extension for the SO model.

That first sentence is amazing. Where did you get your MBA? :)

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Re: Review my startup

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Post by melissamiranda »

count wrote: post #5
jaredbrown wrote: post #3

Almost 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?

Pinterest, Dribbblr, and Quora in the early days were all invite-only and read-only to the public. I don't think it's confusing at all. However, you would benefit from exposing some awesome content on the home page to entice people to request an invite.

Re: Review my startup

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Post by jaredbrown »

melissamiranda wrote: post #38
count wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Pinterest, Dribbblr, and Quora in the early days were all invite-only and read-only to the public. I don't think it's confusing at all. However, you would benefit from exposing some awesome content on the home page to entice people to request an invite.

Great comment. Currently the site exposes the most popular post at the moment under the section, "What's on Talentopoly" on the landing page.

The next step I planned to take was to expose the Posts tab on the landing page.

Down the road I expect to make the landing page the popular posts page and the Request Invite links would take you to what is now the landing page (the request an invite page).

That's the 3-step process for exposing the posts more and more as I currently have it planned.

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