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I don't see the niche argument applying to a service that basically isn't a community; there is no in-service exchange between the users. flavors.me has a better design and presumably offers more service hooks than profile.io. Saying that profile.io is a niche product in the light of flavors.me just seems like PR-ish for "less appeal". :) If it's vertical, it can't be the same as a service with a wide appeal. From wh…
You are comparing a 3-day version of Profile.io to a 2+ year-old site. We have plans that would differentiate ourselves from the other services out there but we can't build all of them in a matter of days. It is not entirely inspired by About.me but we got some inspiration from it mainly with the design. If you look at my previous HN submissions, Profile.io is a byproduct of my previous project - Launchset. It's just…
If the about.me and appeal remarks seemed hostile, it was because I didn't know that I was talking to one of the creators. (Like I've said before, HN need to highlight that somehow.)
If that's not positive, I honestly don't know what is. And to give you some honest advice (I know how you hate that, though), your attitude to feedback isn't going to help you succeed. Quite the contrary.
Helping people is a little like being a parent; to your children, you're a parent first, and a friend second. You may have to make some unpopular decisions, but they're in the best interest of the person.