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Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
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#72Interesting, it's only based on user submissions, or do you also import from sources?
We have something similar at Theneeds, in the Money area [1]. I'd happy to talk more if you'd like.
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#74Since when are banks an industry ?.
Ah ok, they produce debt, that sounds industrious.
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#75I don't understand how copying a website almost feature by feature can make it to the front page of HN
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#76I'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)
Don't !
BoredBanker is an excellent name - memorable, amusing & not overly long. There's already enough dry, grey, "serious" content associated with this industry - having an offbeat and slightly subversive name will be part of your appeal.
People who tell you they won't use the site because of the name are being disingenuous - if the quality of news & discussion is good enough they'll come.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 wha…
As someone who's spent most of their career in professional finance, my strong advice would be to avoid the proliferation of "contributor" sourced sites. These sites typically allow anyone to write financial articles, trading recommendations etc. and get paid for page views. There is little to no verification of the content, let alone diligence on the credibility of the authors, and the quality of the discussion is e…
Agreed. Also, in the name of "understand your market" - what did early HN readers get from reading HN that they wouldn't elsewhere and how does that translate to finance? Would HN be successful if some random dude had started it instead of PG? I admittedly wasn't around in the early days, but back then I would imagine that the expectation was "wow, generally people who post on here are legit" as a direct consequence of that association.
I'm not familiar with the author - is he/she someone baller enough in the finance world to draw quality discussion? Are people going to break away from WallStreetOasis and minesweeper for this? Is there useful industry-relevant information? (My impression from friends who've gone into finance is that technical skills matter for jack shit as long as you're competent, and relationships, positioning, and sounding like you know what you're talking about rule the day. Is that something you can vaguely convince yourself you're getting better at at while wasting office time on a finance hacker news clone?)
Unrelated, I've always thought it would be fun to hem up a corpus of SeekingAlpha articles, use some rudimentary NLP to look for clear short-term bullishness or bearishness on some specific security, and see if you can either (a)find anyone who's demonstrably worth reading and following (and maybe trading based on them), or (b) more likely point out that everyone is full if s, most of them are convinced of their own s, and in the end it's all clickbait with charts and important-sounding finance words.
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#78I'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.
Boredom brings me to HN and boredom makes me wanna learn new things. I think it is a great name. Plus broad audience, I have only met a few bankers that are not bored with their jobs... Has links to some nice articles btw
If hackernews was called "bored programmer" I would be reminded I was bored every time I visited. From a marketing standpoint, sounding cool and compelling is a thousand times more important than being literal and accurate.
My first reactions to: "Hacker News" = "Whoa, hackers! This is what hackers read!" "Bored hacker" = "What kind of hacker is bored? I want to go where the cool up-to-date hackers are." "Bored programmer" = "Man, fuck those guys."
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#79I 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 what made Hacker News so good ~x years ago was the intentions of the users - people were here to share and learn, now many people are here to get traffic to their blog or startup or news site.
In finance I expect this will be much more aggressively pursued because AdSense clicks are probably worth lots.
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#80I'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.
I think name matters less than you think. Otherwise sites with names like "google", "yahoo" or "reddit" could never make it. If it's good, they will come, whatever the name is (within reason, of course).