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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
#52Here'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…
Why would developers who aren't interested in a problem any more be interested in documenting the code enough for someone else to take over? Color me skeptical :-)
Re: I'm creating a website to promote early stage sites and ideas
#53Reminds me of http://www.killerstartups.com back in the days (not sure if they are still doing that though).
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#54I would love to be able to receive the new one by mail with some presentation text.
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#55I would love to be able to receive the new one by mail with some presentation text.
I would love to receive an email every week with new startups.
And this would be a terrific way for small startups to get the word out. There would be a moderator who would decide which startups are good enough. I would rather have the moderator decide if something's interesting enough than HN crowd.
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#56Reminds me of http://www.killerstartups.com back in the days (not sure if they are still doing that though).
Yeah! It's similar to killerstartups which is actually nice, isn't it?
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#57I'm surprized there are very few apps presented from a user centric point of view. "This app is a ..." bad, "Make better ..." good.
This makes it clear and easy to grab how the app will contribute to make my life better, anf why using and buying it might be worth for me.
Hey Kalzumeus, your marketing lessons are starting to work on me! I was just a dumb programmer before.
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#58Cool, just signed up and submitted Soulmix (http://www.soulmix.com). Would love to see how a listing on KickoffBoost turns out :)
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#59Okay, 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.
Going to hijack and tell you that you've got all the right buzzwords to get me interested but I still have no idea what you're offering from the landing page.
So much so as to dissuade me from signing up (to what?)
Re: I'm creating a website to promote early stage sites and ideas
#60Earlier 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.
As a CDN for static content Cloudflare is an easy win.