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

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How did we do? "We help people quickly make decisions between competing options."

Stock options? Or just options in general? So is it like a friend giving you advice?

We're trying to build a site that gives people the information they need to decide between different products/services/options. For example: http://www.slant.co/topics/697/~what-is-the-best-cross-platf...

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

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post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How did we do? "We help people quickly make decisions between competing options."

Stock options? Or just options in general? So is it like a friend giving you advice?

We also do a pretty good job with all the closed SO questions.

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

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post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stock options? Or just options in general? So is it like a friend giving you advice?

We're trying to build a site that gives people the information they need to decide between different products/services/options. For example: http://www.slant.co/topics/697/~what-is-the-best-cross-platf...

So you are writing new reviews for each product in a "viewpoint" kind of way?

I am thinking about Metacritic and how they evaluate someone else's review but still link to it.

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

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For anyone who likes this sort of thing, you should also check out http://betali.st/ I'm not involved in either btw.

The Museum of Modern Betas (MoMB) has been around for many years now. http://momb.socio-kybernetics.net/ It's worth a visit too if you're into this sort of stuff.

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

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post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're trying to build a site that gives people the information they need to decide between different products/services/options. For example: http://www.slant.co/topics/697/~what-is-the-best-cross-platf...

So you are writing new reviews for each product in a "viewpoint" kind of way? I am thinking about Metacritic and how they evaluate someone else's review but still link to it.

It's actually all crowdsourced. Anyone can add new Viewpoints, improve existing ones etc. Reviews typically go out of date very rapidly so we're building something that can be constantly updated/improved. I guess the UI has a long way to go before it's obvious how it all works.

For example here is a pretty great rundown of CSS pre-processors (http://www.slant.co/topics/217/viewpoints/1/~best-css-prepro...). You can click through to see discussions, previous edits etc. (please ignore the lack of data in the bar charts on the "summary page", it's a brand new feature)

(also, I did a little stalking, you will like our stack: node, backbone, coffeescript, stylus. All single-page as well :)

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

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How do you pick what goes on the front page and how long it stays there? Or is it just FIFO queue with most recent on top? If so, how do you throttle it and what's the backlog? One thing that I don't like about BetaList (as a submitter) - there's no insight into whether your submission is going to be accepted and if it is, then when it's going to be featured. If you can make your site better for submitters , you will…

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