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Seeding a startup without using fake accounts: anyone seed a startup with wikipedia content? How did that work out?
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Re: Seeding a startup without using fake accounts: anyone seed a startup with wikipedia content? How did that work out?
#2Someone recommended that I seed http://studystickies.com with wikipedia content.
So I've been working on that and plan to make an update next week with some wikipedia content.
At least in this way, search queries would yield something interesting.
But at the same time, it would be clear that this data was imported from wikipedia. So it's not obvious what sort of impression this would have on visitors to the site.
Also, it's not clear whether wikipedians would be attracted to the site since this is not really a tool for wikipedia .
Re: Seeding a startup without using fake accounts: anyone seed a startup with wikipedia content? How did that work out?
#3As long as the content you're seeding your site with is valuable to your users go ahead and get whatever you can. We got a ton of great content for a gardening application from usda.gov and are able to manipulate it in ways that makes it useful to our users.
Re: Seeding a startup without using fake accounts: anyone seed a startup with wikipedia content? How did that work out?
#4As long as the content you're seeding your site with is valuable to your users go ahead and get whatever you can. We got a ton of great content for a gardening application from usda.gov and are able to manipulate it in ways that makes it useful to our users.
I'm not sure how useful this is.
But it would give users some idea as to what the site would look like with more contributions from users.
Re: Seeding a startup without using fake accounts: anyone seed a startup with wikipedia content? How did that work out?
#5Someone recommended that I seed http://studystickies.com with wikipedia content. So I've been working on that and plan to make an update next week with some wikipedia content. At least in this way, search queries would yield something interesting. But at the same time, it would be clear that this data was imported from wikipedia. So it's not obvious what sort of impression this would have on visitors to the site. Als…
That site needs an explanation of "what the heck is this?!" either on the front page or linked from it.
Re: Seeding a startup without using fake accounts: anyone seed a startup with wikipedia content? How did that work out?
#6Someone recommended that I seed http://studystickies.com with wikipedia content. So I've been working on that and plan to make an update next week with some wikipedia content. At least in this way, search queries would yield something interesting. But at the same time, it would be clear that this data was imported from wikipedia. So it's not obvious what sort of impression this would have on visitors to the site. Als…
That site needs an explanation of "what the heck is this?!" either on the front page or linked from it.
See the flash demo. Maybe I should change the text on the flash demo button to "what's this? (flash demo)"
Re: Seeding a startup without using fake accounts: anyone seed a startup with wikipedia content? How did that work out?
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
That site needs an explanation of "what the heck is this?!" either on the front page or linked from it.
See the flash demo. Maybe I should change the text on the flash demo button to "what's this? (flash demo)"
Why would you do something as silly as force people to watch a flash video to know what your site does?
Re: Seeding a startup without using fake accounts: anyone seed a startup with wikipedia content? How did that work out?
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
That site needs an explanation of "what the heck is this?!" either on the front page or linked from it.
See the flash demo. Maybe I should change the text on the flash demo button to "what's this? (flash demo)"
Demo not working for me. Even if it did though, I agree that you should make more apparent the immediate use that the site has for the new user.
Re: Seeding a startup without using fake accounts: anyone seed a startup with wikipedia content? How did that work out?
#9I'm curious what technology you used to grab content from wikipedia?
Re: Seeding a startup without using fake accounts: anyone seed a startup with wikipedia content? How did that work out?
#10Someone recommended that I seed http://studystickies.com with wikipedia content. So I've been working on that and plan to make an update next week with some wikipedia content. At least in this way, search queries would yield something interesting. But at the same time, it would be clear that this data was imported from wikipedia. So it's not obvious what sort of impression this would have on visitors to the site. Als…
Your site appears to be down right now but I stumbled upon it once before and not only did I grok it straight away, I also thought it was a great idea. That said, if some people are saying they don't get it, you should do something about that.