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Re: Show HN: Left Buzzfeed to launch this

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Post by cmb320 »

danso wrote: post #6

Not to downplay the OP's product (the launch page is very well done, btw), but this reminded me of the well-publicized winning TV-themed hackathon entry earlier this year by a teenager: http://www.motherjones.com/media/2013/05/meet-17-year-old-sa... Again, it's not a downplay of the OP's achievement, but a remark on how such a seemingly simple service is in high demand, such that a total underdog could win a hackatho…

Yeah. Rather is based off this, which we made EVEN before the 17 year old awesome spoiler chick. http://ilovechrisbaker.com/unbaby-me/

Re: Show HN: Left Buzzfeed to launch this

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Post by cmb320 »

buckbova wrote: post #19
adamb0mb1 wrote: post #5

Congrats on taking the leap. One quick thought though: A fun side-project does not a company make. Good luck, and let us know how we can help. But I'd start thinking real hard about how to make money (companies that want to block porn, but not all of tumblr (or reddit))

Replace spoilers with ads like: "Don't get SPOILED. Use ziplock bags for freshness".

Replace breaking bad spoilers with low winter sun. AMC would eat that up.

Re: Show HN: Left Buzzfeed to launch this

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Post by basch »

One of your product quotes is "Whoever made this deserves the friggin nobel prize" which is a response to a person who said "what will these azn's think of next" and linked to http://www.geekstudent.com/index.php?tag=bubble-wrap

Are you sure "some chick" on twitter actually said that?

Re: Show HN: Left Buzzfeed to launch this

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Post by cmb320 »

kmfrk wrote: post #11

Interesting project, which might help serve to mute my Twitter feed the same way Tweetbot does. Unfortunately, its filters make a really obvious mistake, which is to include very normal queries; I mean, c'mon, I hate baseball and everything, but does it seriously make sense to filter tweets with the words "yankees, tigers, indians(!), pirates, and giants"? I'd really love a way to save and export filters, so I could…

We currently allow you to add any keywords you want. We'd like to eventually allow rather to communicate with things like tweetbot, so tweetbot can just pull from what you hate, etc.

Re: Show HN: Left Buzzfeed to launch this

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Post by cmb320 »

basch wrote: post #23

One of your product quotes is "Whoever made this deserves the friggin nobel prize" which is a response to a person who said "what will these azn's think of next" and linked to http://www.geekstudent.com/index.php?tag=bubble-wrap Are you sure "some chick" on twitter actually said that?

hmmm. Maybe I got my links screwed up. I'll fix that. Anyway, here's another one: https://twitter.com/CLAYMOORE/status/306965801494257664

Re: Show HN: Left Buzzfeed to launch this

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Post by buckbova »

cmb320 wrote: post #22
buckbova wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Replace spoilers with ads like: "Don't get SPOILED. Use ziplock bags for freshness".

Replace breaking bad spoilers with low winter sun. AMC would eat that up.

Yes, context driven adverts. Not sure how much that's worth, but it's worth pitching to someone like Fox Sports or AMC.

Re: Show HN: Left Buzzfeed to launch this

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Post by mathewsimonton »

I'm sure people can find the team page fun, but I saw it as uninformative; I see three co-founders and all I know at a glance is that one guy used to be with BuzzFeed. The front page of the site is also fun, but it's also informative.

I was also a little confused about why the LinkedIn URLs don't point to the public page but rather the URL used by those already logged into LinkedIn. I'm thinking this was probably just overlooked. I happened to be logged out, clicked on one of the icons, was required to log in, and because I use the 2-step authentication I wanted to just get back to browsing HN because all I had was just a low level of curiosity about the people behind the product.

Example: The icon for Peter Marquis links to http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=32333289 while it could have been linking to http://www.linkedin.com/pub/pete-marquis/a/9b3/489 (or better yet the /in/ URL which would give all users the information, whether they're logged in or not.)

Bookmarked the site. I'll check it out soon enough. Good luck!

Re: Show HN: Left Buzzfeed to launch this

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Post by lesterbuck »

AznHisoka wrote: post #20
bambax wrote: post #8

Using an ordinary English word with no capitalization for your product's name makes the marketing copy hard to read. I first parsed "Why rather kicks ass" as "Why rather kick ass" and thought "yeah, why not go kick some ass (?) instead of sitting behind my computer like I've been doing all day". Then I realized you meant "Why our product (which is named "rather") kicks ass".

This might also be a sign the copy is focusing too much on themselves, and why they kick ass... rather than why you can kick ass if you use it. A subtle difference.

A subtle but crucial difference. Kathy Sierra gave the canonical presentation on this in 2009

http://businessofsoftware.org/2010/05/kathy-sierra-at-busine...

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