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

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

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Post by grey-area »

easymode wrote: post #5
hdivider wrote: post #2

Interesting - bookmarked. Will probably try it out next time I launch a product. Stuff like this is why I prefer /newest to the front page. =) (Edit: Okay, it's on the front page now. Still, /newest is always worth checking out.)

Thanks so much :D I'm trying to gather how many eyeballs each listing can gather, and I'm trying to optimize getting the traffic to the listings. I'll post the updates in this thread. Thanks again :)

Really nice site. To maximise traffic, consider starting a mailing list as well which mails out new sites once a week.

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

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Post by deadreturns3 »

joeblau wrote: post #32
lukes386 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even easier would be to setup cloudflare in front of the site. All you have to do is set the cache control headers for your landing page to something like "max-age=300, public". That way cloudflare's servers will eat the vast majority of your requests, but no one will see content older than a few minutes. We got HN'd the other day and this kept our median response time around 25ms, even for our slow rails app. Of cou…

+1 for Cloudflare. I use them for my site and responsiveness has never been better. Their service is truly excellent.

OT: hahahaha Cloudflare has really improved their image on HN by posting those technical blog posts. Who else remembers that thread where they got super-shat on?

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

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Post by girvo »

ghc wrote: post #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.

I'm glad you did: I'd love to talk to you, what you're doing is exactly what I'm looking for for my startup right now!

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

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Post by esschul »

Here's an even cooler idea: instead of listing emerging ideas, ,and beta projects, what about creating a website service for finishing almost done apps (alpha projects if you like). That would be a more interesting list. People could upload their started, but not finished projects and outline what's left. There must be millions of good ideas that has been started, but never finished due to the fact that the developer didn't find the problem interesting anymore. Specialize in one thing, like iphone-apps.
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