I can't believe the level of detail that went into making this site look similar to HN. Even the login page looks the same.
It's the same source.
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
#42I'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.
Well, one of the biggest financial websites out there is called Fool.com...
Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
#43This has got to be the best trolling ever.
Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
#44Why continue the HN way of commenting, once a post gets past 50 comments its impossible to follow where new content is landing.
Maybe look at Discourse or something similar...
Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
#45As someone who's tried starting a new HN for business news (forlue.com, now defunct) after New Mogul left us I found the most difficult thing was getting a niche community to consistently submit stories. If you know of a small group of people (ideally in the financial/money industry) who'd be interested in this, get them to use it amongst each other to trade stories during the day. I still believe there's a market fo…
The working solution (proven by Reddit) is to create a ton of fake accounts and post stories from them, and have them talk to each other in comments.
Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
#46There is also NH for agriculture, in case anyone is interested:
http://news.agfunder.com/
Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
#47The height of the banner at the top is just a little off. ;)
Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
#48The height of the banner at the top is just a little off. ;)
Oh that's done on purpose :) I always thought that the HN banner was a little too small, so I decided to make mine a little larger
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#49I 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 st…
Metafilter is another example of a website which has maintained its character. They ask for a $5 lifetime membership fee.
Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
#50Member of your target audience here; some others have done similar styled sites (up voting, but no discussion). Check out [0]. Might actually be run by someone who follow HN.