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...but where's the business model???? (just kidding)
http://cafepress.com/thenadstore We're old-school: merchandise only, baby! (We're getting a few artistic friends to make posters, so hopefully we'll have something really worth selling. I also really like the look of the "nad" logo.)
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You've completely eschewed the conventional norms in the "social networking" scene while still maintaining the core essence of what makes them awesome (especially the "25 things about me" facebook phenomenon); If that isn't relavent to hacker culture, I don't know what is.
I guess. I'd find it more impressive if we'd managed to connect users using a similarly skewered method, but we didn't. (Even if we'd let you connect via similar answers, it would still be following convention.)
But I really think you should go and flesh out the theme a bit, just answering a bunch of questions does not make it a social network, there is a bit more to it than that.
Very neat. I had fun answering a bunch of questions. Although, I was really hoping for a dating site with a sister site called http://www.notabitch.com/ I think this would make a great addition to a lot of social networking and dating sites. Post a few new random madlibs to users every so often to keep them and their friends interested. Up the stickiness.
It was suggested that we create a series of sites. Notawanker, notacunt, notaspaz... not sure how good that would look on a resume. "Douche" is edgy but not quite offensive; "bitch" crosses some line that "douche" doesn't.
And you can always list it as 'an experiment in user generated content sites that pulled in 1000 signups per day on the second day', I think that ought to do it :)
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http://cafepress.com/thenadstore We're old-school: merchandise only, baby! (We're getting a few artistic friends to make posters, so hopefully we'll have something really worth selling. I also really like the look of the "nad" logo.)
nad: not the best initialism...
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I guess. I'd find it more impressive if we'd managed to connect users using a similarly skewered method, but we didn't. (Even if we'd let you connect via similar answers, it would still be following convention.)
there is a dating site that uses a mechanism like that to match up likely candidates.
You've made a fun thing there ! But I really think you should go and flesh out the theme a bit, just answering a bunch of questions does not make it a social network, there is a bit more to it than that.
You've made a fun thing there ! But I really think you should go and flesh out the theme a bit, just answering a bunch of questions does not make it a social network, there is a bit more to it than that.
Well, that was part of the joke. Somebody on #startups submitted it to Digg as a "nonsocial nonnetwork." That pretty much sums it up. It's why we didn't exactly expect the traffic we're getting. (We're up to nearly 3,800 users, up another 800 in about 4 hours, so growth hasn't stopped yet - and that was in the dead of night.)
If I can give you any advice at all it would be try to create a reason for those people to come back at some time in the future when you've better figured out what to do with this, you're really sitting on something and chances of hitting it out of the park like that twice are slim.
So, to add to your problems a bit I've given you a homepage link on http://ww.com/
Enjoy the extra traffic :)
j.
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there is a dating site that uses a mechanism like that to match up likely candidates.
I'd be curious to see how effective that is! What's the name of the site?