Today I launched my solo project, Listry. Feedback/suggestions appreciated

#1

Post by Spines11 » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 2:12 PM UTC

Today I launched my solo project, Listry. Feedback/suggestions appreciated
listry.com

Re: Today I launched my solo project, Listry. Feedback/suggestions appreciated

#2

Post by Spines11 » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 2:15 PM UTC

This is the project I've been working on for the past 6 months. It combines the features of wikis with a voting system that determines the best parts of an article. There's still a lot of improvements I need to make, but I wanted to launch early and get feedback.

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#3

Post by stingraycharles » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 2:29 PM UTC

Congratulations with your launch! It looks like you've got a nice hybrid between HN/Reddit-style voting and Stackoverflow-topics, - personally haven't seen such a site before. It'll be interesting to see whether you'll succeed building a community around it. Any plan-of-attacks on gaining traction?

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#4

Post by davidcollantes » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 2:34 PM UTC

Looks quite nice. Please implement OpenID, or similar. I do not want yet another account. Cheers!

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#5

Post by ch0wn » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 2:34 PM UTC

Very interesting and - as far as I'm concerned - unique concept, clean design. I really like it so far. Best of luck!

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Post by Spines11 » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 2:35 PM UTC

stingraycharles wrote: post #3

Congratulations with your launch! It looks like you've got a nice hybrid between HN/Reddit-style voting and Stackoverflow-topics, - personally haven't seen such a site before. It'll be interesting to see whether you'll succeed building a community around it. Any plan-of-attacks on gaining traction?

Thanks! Yea, building the community will be the tough part. I was planning on writing high quality articles on Listry and then hopefully some of the people that read the article would want to add their own input to the article and that's how they would get started contributing.

Any suggestions?

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#7

Post by Spines11 » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 2:36 PM UTC

davidcollantes wrote: post #4

Looks quite nice. Please implement OpenID, or similar. I do not want yet another account. Cheers!

Haha, okay. That'll be next on my TODO list :)

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#8

Post by rshm » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 2:38 PM UTC

Prepare some seed content yourself. Just "listphrase" existing similar sites. It will give a bit of realness to new visitor.

Cheers and best of luck.

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#9

Post by techjohn » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 2:45 PM UTC

Looks like you are using Google custom search. Can you please provide your perspective on the service.

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#10

Post by arturadib » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 2:45 PM UTC

Are votes really a 1-5 rating? I thought it was bit counterintuitive (I guess in my experience "votes" are typically binary). How about allowing just thumbs up/down?