Hey! Awesome job. Can you please tell me how I can do this, albeit for the natural resource and conservation sector (which really needs disrupting)? Is there some off-the-peg software that I can use?
Please let me know once you get this up. :)
Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
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Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
#22Interesting. If I may ask, what is the business model? Or is there one? If not, what's the motivation?
There is none. I have made this website because I wanted something like Hacker News for finance and economics and there wasn't one.
How long/how much does it cost to run this? I'm curious. Well done with it. Other than a name change, I think this is very useful.
Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
#23Awesome. It seems like there are very few comments. Have you considered advertising on economics forums? Grad students tend to like posting on sites like this, an HN has a very good format.
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#24I'm not a member of your target audience, but I can't imagine BoredBanker is a very motivating name for people to start interesting discussions.
That is true: I was going for a funny and short name that's easy to remember, but I realize now how boredBanker comes across as lazy and not conducive to interesting discussions.
EDIT: I am currently considering changing the domain (and the title)
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#25This is cool, and I hope it catches on. Despite its flaws and quirks I think HN has something nice going on in terms of the overall submission and discussion quality, and I don't think it should be restricted to just 'hackers' (or startup founders, software engineers, enthusiasts, etc). Just like how there's a whole ecosystem of Stack Exchange sites for a variety of interests, maybe there should be more HN-like sites as well, fulfilling a cultural role that (e.g.) subreddits alone can't. Plus, the software (minus some of the ranking algorithms) is out there already for anyone to use.
Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
#26Interesting. If I may ask, what is the business model? Or is there one? If not, what's the motivation?
There is none. I have made this website because I wanted something like Hacker News for finance and economics and there wasn't one.
True, but thats also because your target market has dynamics very different from your average hacker and even your early adopters behave differently.
It always comes down to community.
Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
#27Awesome. It seems like there are very few comments. Have you considered advertising on economics forums? Grad students tend to like posting on sites like this, an HN has a very good format.
The scarcity of comments is explained away by the fact that the website has been made public only very recently.
But thank you, yours is a good suggestion
Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
#28love love love the name. not sure why the domain name (which is the one I like so much) does not align with the title tag?
Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
#29I highly suggest you curate the quality of your posts, users and comments. Perhaps, even at the expense of potential users. I think reddit is a prime example of how badly quality can deteriorate. I know there's no metric for 'good' vs 'bad' comments we can appeal to but I think we can all understand that all the 'true' subreddits[1] denote the fact that once you get far enough on the adoption curve[2] quality will start to suffer as I contend occurred on slashdot, followed by digg, subsequently reddit, and now HN. It will deteriorate into Eternal September[3] -- filled with one line quips and memes. I don't want to make any value judgments on this specific community but I'd like to say I miss the edw519s.
Good examples of communities that have managed to maintain quality well are /r/askhistorians and lobste.rs. Ask Historians managed to do it by ruling with an iron fist. Lobste.rs by heavily curating which members are able to join. Another interesting example of retaining long term quality is visible in private torrent sites- many of which employ both an invite system and strict rules.
Finally, what made Hacker News so good ~4 years ago was it was originally populated by people within the industry with decades of experience. You yourself said this was for the financial industry-- trying to pick up early adopters here makes about as much sense as trying to pick up adopters for a medical industry community on an economist forum.
[1] /r/trueaskreddit, /r/truereddit/, /r/truerreddit
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_lifecycle