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Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers

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Post by sillysaurusx »

zrkrlc wrote: post #70
sillysaurusx wrote: post #32

What you'll discover is that the moment this falls off the HN front page, your traffic goes to zero. You'll need to manually recruit users, every day, typically by going to wherever they are. Twitter is your friend here. DM everyone you can, and keep checking in with them to see if they're getting value out of it. My personal experience was that I showed up, was delighted to see so many relevant papers, but then lost…

A bit crass these days, but this is probably where Reddit-style fake accounts will probably shine. Maybe a mix of manual work + judiciously crafted chatGPT prompts?

I've thought about fine tuning a GPT using stylometry to sound like specific HN users. You'd have to do that if you want it to succeed, since otherwise it'll all sound same-y.

Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers

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Post by hyperthesis »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #32

What you'll discover is that the moment this falls off the HN front page, your traffic goes to zero. You'll need to manually recruit users, every day, typically by going to wherever they are. Twitter is your friend here. DM everyone you can, and keep checking in with them to see if they're getting value out of it. My personal experience was that I showed up, was delighted to see so many relevant papers, but then lost…

A narrower, niche focus helps, because easier to get a higher concentration on fewer things. Then you want a natural way to expand the focus. It was easier for reddit and HN, without reddit and HN to compete with.

Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers

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Post by holler »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #32

What you'll discover is that the moment this falls off the HN front page, your traffic goes to zero. You'll need to manually recruit users, every day, typically by going to wherever they are. Twitter is your friend here. DM everyone you can, and keep checking in with them to see if they're getting value out of it. My personal experience was that I showed up, was delighted to see so many relevant papers, but then lost…

100%, my experience getting to front page of HN twice with https://sqwok.im

I found Twitter to not be a great place to recruit new users, granted it was probably partly because I was using the official account for the site, not a personal account with my face, and the nature of "real-time" means w/o coordinated events where people show up at the same time, the bounce rate is high.

What was the hn clone you built? Still working on community site(s)?

Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers

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Post by wingerlang »

paulpauper wrote: post #54
sillysaurusx wrote: post #32

What you'll discover is that the moment this falls off the HN front page, your traffic goes to zero. You'll need to manually recruit users, every day, typically by going to wherever they are. Twitter is your friend here. DM everyone you can, and keep checking in with them to see if they're getting value out of it. My personal experience was that I showed up, was delighted to see so many relevant papers, but then lost…

What you'll discover is that the moment this falls off the HN front page, your traffic goes to zero. You'll need to manually recruit users, every day, typically by going to wherever they are. Yeah front page on HN = high bounce rate. You need more to keep 'em coming back. I don't think this is that good of an idea, imho. arXiv and SSRN already do this. There are no shortage of paper syndication and aggregation servic…

> I don't think this is that good of an idea, imho

I don't think it necessarily is a bad idea either. The problem is that you can't just make a simple looking website and call it a "HN for X". HN is nothing without the users and comments. So if the idea is to bring the research community to the site itself, the idea is.. good? At least in theory. It might still be impossible in practice.

Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers

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Post by olivierduval »

rsfern wrote: post #62
aliqot wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

woah I stand corrected, my apologies

Personally I didn’t find your tone really warrants an apology, and anyway the search feature is pretty unobtrusive :) Also for what it’s worth I kind of disagree with the top level poster, search can come later after there’s enough discussion to actually index.

Well, I'll be happy to use it when some kind of search will be implemented (even google search!)

The thing is: as mentionned in other comments, research papers may spread really different fields... so some kind of either search or category may help to find good content wrt specific knowledges.

Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers

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Post by mariusor »

hyperthesis wrote: post #72
sillysaurusx wrote: post #32

What you'll discover is that the moment this falls off the HN front page, your traffic goes to zero. You'll need to manually recruit users, every day, typically by going to wherever they are. Twitter is your friend here. DM everyone you can, and keep checking in with them to see if they're getting value out of it. My personal experience was that I showed up, was delighted to see so many relevant papers, but then lost…

A narrower, niche focus helps, because easier to get a higher concentration on fewer things. Then you want a natural way to expand the focus. It was easier for reddit and HN, without reddit and HN to compete with.

That's not entirely true. Reddit when was launched was the underdog to a very popular Digg, and maybe to a less extent Slashdot. Reddit gained popularity when Digg updated their interface to something that most users disliked strongly. And HN had reddit as a competitor right from the start - maybe not the same reddit of today, but still notable.

Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers

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Post by eimrine »

Please allow me to share my favorite paper: bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Most of great papers I have read are located not on arXiv. And maybe consider to do the paperlist.io a torrent tracker because of availability issues of some papers over time like there is happening with links on Wikipedia pages.

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