Y Combinator’s Slinkset Launches Hosted Reddits For The Masses
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Re: Y Combinator’s Slinkset Launches Hosted Reddits For The Masses
#2From HN to YC to TC to HN. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=140841
Congratulations SlinkSet team. Hard work pays off.
EDIT: I just spent more time at SlinkSet and I think they definitely have a business model in hosting their app as a HELP FORUM (excatly like the one they have on their site).
Writing a FAQ is very hard and you always leave some questions out. By hosting this feature for small businesses, they can also gather a lot of information about those businesses and their customers.
Re: Y Combinator’s Slinkset Launches Hosted Reddits For The Masses
#3Totally off-topic (except that it's linked from the article) but techcrunch's reddit clone is hilariously and pathetically empty.
More on topic, I'd like to see more options to customize the "editorial policy" of your site - how many votes to get promoted, how user karma works, how sites get blocked, manual overrides, and so on.
I find when I compare HN and Digg, I'm struck by how the sites have come to reflect the personalities of the people who founded them. Here it's hyper-technical and it makes you think twice about commenting frivolously, because of the potential for what seems like infinite downvoting and its effect on karma. Digg is pretty frivolous and all over the place, perhaps because karma is not visible to users, and downvoting doesn't have the same direct effect on karma.
My point being that the personalities behind the site shape the content - even if the engine is "democratic", the constant tweaking of that engine represents an editorial policy, just as much as a newspaper's.
Re: Y Combinator’s Slinkset Launches Hosted Reddits For The Masses
#4Have it scrape your blog/website and auto-post any new links as if they were user submissions.
Re: Y Combinator’s Slinkset Launches Hosted Reddits For The Masses
#5Have it scrape your blog/website and auto-post any new links as if they were user submissions.
It already does that (I was in their beta). You just go to Settings -> Feeds. Input your blog feed. Done.
Re: Y Combinator’s Slinkset Launches Hosted Reddits For The Masses
#6Totally off-topic (except that it's linked from the article) but techcrunch's reddit clone is hilariously and pathetically empty. More on topic, I'd like to see more options to customize the "editorial policy" of your site - how many votes to get promoted, how user karma works, how sites get blocked, manual overrides, and so on. I find when I compare HN and Digg, I'm struck by how the sites have come to reflect the p…
I'm struck by how the sites have come to reflect the personalities of the people who founded them
It's fascinating how companies (and other creations) tend to carry the personalities of the people who started them. In our world, Microsoft, Apple, Google are good examples... one could go on endlessly. There aren't many general principles that seem to hold up as well as this one does.
Re: Y Combinator’s Slinkset Launches Hosted Reddits For The Masses
#7Totally off-topic (except that it's linked from the article) but techcrunch's reddit clone is hilariously and pathetically empty. More on topic, I'd like to see more options to customize the "editorial policy" of your site - how many votes to get promoted, how user karma works, how sites get blocked, manual overrides, and so on. I find when I compare HN and Digg, I'm struck by how the sites have come to reflect the p…
More on topic, I'd like to see more options to customize the "editorial policy" of your site - how many votes to get promoted, how user karma works, how sites get blocked, manual overrides, and so on.
Definitely. We've got a lot of ideas and plans along these lines. I think you're right on about the personality of the site admins shaping the content. Though in more ways than just choosing how the engine works.
Re: Y Combinator’s Slinkset Launches Hosted Reddits For The Masses
#8From HN to YC to TC to HN. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=140841 Congratulations SlinkSet team. Hard work pays off. EDIT: I just spent more time at SlinkSet and I think they definitely have a business model in hosting their app as a HELP FORUM (excatly like the one they have on their site). Writing a FAQ is very hard and you always leave some questions out. By hosting this feature for small businesses, they can…
Thanks.
And, yeah, we've thought of a few options for targeting businesses. Help forums is definitely one.
Re: Y Combinator’s Slinkset Launches Hosted Reddits For The Masses
#9From HN to YC to TC to HN. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=140841 Congratulations SlinkSet team. Hard work pays off. EDIT: I just spent more time at SlinkSet and I think they definitely have a business model in hosting their app as a HELP FORUM (excatly like the one they have on their site). Writing a FAQ is very hard and you always leave some questions out. By hosting this feature for small businesses, they can…
Thanks. And, yeah, we've thought of a few options for targeting businesses. Help forums is definitely one.
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