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I'm creating a website to promote early stage sites and ideas

kickoffboost.com

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Re: I'm creating a website to promote early stage sites and ideas

#14
Cool idea. I might suggest creating a static version of your site and hosting it on s3. This will make it much more stable if you have a high read rate. Then you can point the new submissions to a app server or something. You don't have to get fancy with this or anything, a simple 'wget -r http://www.kickoffboost.com/' and upload that to a s3 bucket, etc.

Re: I'm creating a website to promote early stage sites and ideas

#15

I'd add authorization. Right now you can access all the edit and show pages as long as you're signed in

I just fixed it. Thanks so much for pointing it out!

I shared kickoffboost on hackernews just to see if anybody would be interested in this kind of thing. I'm getting so much traffic now and I was not prepared for it at all.

Re: I'm creating a website to promote early stage sites and ideas

#20
Okay, I'll go for it. I'm very curious to see how the traffic will compare to Hacker News. Yesterday I put a link to my company (http://algorithmic.ly) in a comment and the response was overwhelming. I've heard that traffic from different sources can behave drastically differently in terms of conversions, and HN is notoriously bad with conversions, so I wonder how it will compare.
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