Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 4:40 AM UTC

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Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by ddeck » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 4:49 AM UTC

Jagat wrote: post #3

nicklovescode wrote: post #2

I'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.

Banker News

Another vote for Banker News. Three syllables vs six. That, and Financier News might attract pastry chefs in addition to your target audience...

As a member of your target audience, I'd suggest focusing on the discussion side since that's where you likely to be able to add value. Finance professionals already have content professionally curated and ranked by the various paid news services - Reuters, Bloomberg TOP, READ (ranked by views) etc., but there is no discussion there.

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by krrishd » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 4:50 AM UTC

t0 wrote: post #8

I'm glad you installed the actual HN lisp source rather than using telescope. This layout is so much better.

I think its a matter of CSS customization that can make telescope pretty useful as well, I don't think it should be discounted.

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by ballpeen » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 4:55 AM UTC

I think you have something here. Like others have mentioned, find a way to filter out the crap posts.

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by pgroves » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 4:57 AM UTC

Something similar that didn't make it (shut down in May 2013): http://quant.ly/

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by nshinabarger » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 5:05 AM UTC

iheartmemcache wrote: post #29

I 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…

I think you bring up an excellent point. With traffic, content certainly tends to deteriorate, or at least change. Like you've noted, most things are their best at the beginning. This being said, how do you try and stay on the cutting edge of the best sites in their early stages?

I'm honestly too young to have an experience with this myself, and don't expect finding out the best new sites to be easy or quick, but what tips from your experience can you offer?

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by ddeck » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 5:05 AM UTC

pgroves wrote: post #55

Something similar that didn't make it (shut down in May 2013): http://quant.ly/

For those interested in this area, I find The Whole Street's "Quant Mashup" reasonable. It aggregates blog posts from a broad group of quant oriented blogs:

http://www.thewholestreet.com/

For a more academic bent, Quantivity on Twitter provides curated academic quant research:

https://twitter.com/quantivity

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by interstitial » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 5:07 AM UTC

So it's like HN with more bitcoin?

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by corwinstephen » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 5:08 AM UTC

At the expense of a few rep points, this site is going to fail not because it isn't a good idea, but because finance people are just so frequently miserable human beings.

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 5:10 AM UTC

corwinstephen wrote: post #59

At the expense of a few rep points, this site is going to fail not because it isn't a good idea, but because finance people are just so frequently miserable human beings.

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