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Seems to be heavily biased in favor of silicon valley personalities.
Again, like stated in my other comments, we initially started out with these people because they were the people we mainly read, but we plan on expanding outside of the bubble. Let me flip it back on you - which types of people would you want to see?
How do these way early startups put together such animated, great looking website / landing pages?
Are one of you founders just brilliant front end designers? Is there some kind of easy/cheap service I’m missing out there? Did you just spend some crazy money on getting the page custom done for you?
This isn’t just some theme that was altered for you. The graphics, animations and layout are all matching to your message in a customized way in both copy and content.
What did you do?
I have mixed feelings about this as someone that creates a bunch of content across different platforms. I intentionally spread it out across platforms as different platforms have different groups of people that follow me and engage with things differently. This is a nice idea but feels like it could be used for stalking. It would be nice if there was an explicit opt-in for creators having their feeds associated here…
You're effectively decreasing the chances of your users finding more of your content, without actually mitigating stalking activity, which sounds like a net loss for you.
I had a little scare that I wouldn't find Peter Thiel in the list, but I did and now I am subscribed ;) The concept is awesome actually, for the exact reasons you are mentioning: content is scattered, I might not use or be on some of the platforms, etc. Now my question for you is: how do you make sure you don't miss any of their contents? thanks anyway and good luck!
Are you ..... me? This is such a dream product. I hope that it can be useful and a big success outside our tiny corner of the internet. Like will this be useful for someone who is following thought leaders in MMA fighting, Pornstars, DIY Guns and Drugs?
> Like will this be useful for someone who is following thought leaders in MMA fighting, Pornstars, DIY Guns and Drugs? We haven't quite been considering the latter folk for obvious reasons, but we have been pondering the general question of "which types of people should we index?" I think this is an interesting question to consider. One framework we've been using to try to answer this question is the old vitamins vs…
Something I've been wanting for some time but have been too lazy to implement myself is a similar system targeted towards utility rather than value. That is to say, targeted towards entertainment. Something like your favorite guitarist has a new side project, Patrick Rothfuss finally released Doors of Stone, your favorite director is releasing a new movie. Unfortunately most databases for this information seem to be either proprietary or inaccurate.
I have a question: How do these way early startups put together such animated, great looking website / landing pages? Are one of you founders just brilliant front end designers? Is there some kind of easy/cheap service I’m missing out there? Did you just spend some crazy money on getting the page custom done for you? This isn’t just some theme that was altered for you. The graphics, animations and layout are all matc…
This looks super useful! I was curious who I might be able to follow on Alias, so I checked out the list. I saw that an overwhelming majority of the people are white. I know this partly reflects the state of many of these fields right now, but it strikes me that Alias could do a lot of good by seeking out more people of color to follow. Visibility isn't everything, but it does matter. Alias could play a role in chall…
This looks super useful! I was curious who I might be able to follow on Alias, so I checked out the list. I saw that an overwhelming majority of the people are white. I know this partly reflects the state of many of these fields right now, but it strikes me that Alias could do a lot of good by seeking out more people of color to follow. Visibility isn't everything, but it does matter. Alias could play a role in chall…
I hear your concern, and we had a similar thought when preparing to post on HN. We made sure to display women and poc on the front page, but I admit, we can and will do a better job of highlighting diversity. Even if the industry is currently extremely homogeneous in that regard. Thanks for bringing this up.
Neat, but "Google Alerts for famous people" already exists. It is called..Google Alerts. Maybe sell it as "a better Google Alerts" or something.