I'm creating a website to promote early stage sites and ideas • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by mountaineer » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 4:01 PM UTC

juretriglav wrote: post #65

mountaineer wrote: post #7

Twitter auth is not functional http://imgur.com/70sPKpM

Same for me. The author should set up some kind of exception notification, so as to catch exceptions he or she doesn't see. Easiest to set up is https://github.com/smartinez87/exception_notification I'm sure it's all very test-driven though :) Also, a nicer error page would be ... nicer. The default Rails error page oozes professionalism (I'm guilty of delaying error pages styling for way to long too - who's ever goi…

I've been guilty of not setting up notifications and pretty error pages too. Thanks for the link. There are some free Saas tools as well: New Relic, Logentries, Honeybadger that can make it easier.

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

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Post by easymode » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 4:08 PM UTC

PhilipA wrote: post #44

Maybe it could be an idea to be able to comment the sites. Thereby you would get some retention of the users.

Definitely. Getting feedback on ideas is one of my aim. Kickoffboost will feel much more complete within weeks. This launch was to validate that there is a need for this kind of product, and I think I have the green signal to now make it awesome :)

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

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Post by alfg » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 4:10 PM UTC

Suggestion: Maybe make the thumbnails link to their site as well.

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

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Post by Andrex » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 5:09 PM UTC

An RSS feed would be fantastic, I think. Otherwise the site seems to do its job nicely.

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

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Post by pla3rhat3r » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 5:31 PM UTC

Great idea! I love this and give you props for putting together a site that showcases new ideas. There's so much noise out there that it's nice to have a site that weeds through that noise. Awesome.

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

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Post by jitnut » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 6:06 PM UTC

Much needed! just submitted http://pepnest.com :-)

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

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Post by olalonde » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 6:17 PM UTC

Dj_Anthony2013 wrote: post #56

olalonde wrote: post #53

Reminds 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?

Yes. It got me pretty nice traffic back then and it was much easier then getting featured on TechCrunch. I will submit on Kickoffboost for my next project!

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

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Post by lubujackson » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 6:43 PM UTC

dmgrow wrote: post #18

samweinberg wrote: post #10

Even though I'm already subscribed to betali.st and erlibird, I just can't seem to get enough of sites like this. Bookmarked.

Are there other similar sites that you could name (either for closed or open betas)?

Metafilter Projects can give you some good insight/test users, especially if your product isn't just techie-focused.

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

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Post by ghc » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 7:14 PM UTC

easymode wrote: post #38

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.

Hi, I'm trying to manage lots of things right now. Kind of overwhelmed. But I just approved your request. Would be real cool if you share what kind of traffic you got from there in a day. Thanks!

The traffic to http://algorithmic.ly has been outstanding. I think your site just put us over the top. We have gotten more signups than we know what to do with. I'll have to write up a post about it.

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

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Post by d23 » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 7:54 PM UTC

abcd_f wrote: post #88

ngoel36 wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a co-founder of Bitcast ( http://www.bitcast.io - the current top listed "Kickoff"), I can say the traffic from Kickoffboost has been great! For some rough data: We actually launched on HN a week ago and had about 120 concurrent visitors for a span of ~6 hours. I assume this link, at it's #1 ranking since ~10pm PST, is getting somewhere around 100-150 concurrents as well (because of the off timing). As a result, i…

How is this even remotely relevant to what I asked? And haven't you (or someone else from your company) had posted the exact same comment earlier under a different parent, a comment that is now gone? So presumably you just "moved" it here to get it higher up on the page. That's tacky. Don't do that.

You've made a lot of rude assumptions here about that poster. That's more tacky, in my opinion.