boredbanker.com is not a very good name considering a large portion of your target audience will likely browse the site from work.
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
#82open source it op
Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
#83I still miss nickb's former www.newmogul.com. Bring it back, pg!
Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
#84I 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…
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Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
#85I still miss nickb's former www.newmogul.com. Bring it back, pg!
Since it was operated by nickb, why're you asking pg to bring it back?
And, whatever did happen to nickb? Is anyone still in contact with him? Is he doing okay?
Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
#86I still miss nickb's former www.newmogul.com. Bring it back, pg!
Since it was operated by nickb, why're you asking pg to bring it back? And, whatever did happen to nickb? Is anyone still in contact with him? Is he doing okay?
Still no word after all this time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=775507
Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
#87Something similar that didn't make it (shut down in May 2013): http://quant.ly/
Do you have ideas about why it failed?
Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
#88Why 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...
You're absolutely right. I think this way of commenting is just awful.
Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
#89As 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.
have a source on this?
Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
#90Are you going to open source it?