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.
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Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
#102For context: I'm sat on a trading floor in the City of London right now. I had a similar idea (inspired by Slashdot) about ten years ago but, like so many of my great ideas (e.g. time travel, teleportation), I never got around to implementing it. A site like BoredBanker.com will almost certainly be targeted by wannabes, trolls and banker-haters. If you don't keep them off the site, real bankers will be turned off by…
Related to this, take a look at how lobste.rs handles new members: you either need an invitation from an existing one (and your behaviour is associated with that person in the public tree of membership referrals) or you go into a member-visible queue until someone who knows you and is a member can invite you personally.
Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
#103Are you going to open source it?
The HN source is already available: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/master/lib/how-to...
Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
#104Earlier 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…
On the flip side, though, Seeking Alpha is extremely handy for stock alerts and earnings call transcripts.
Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
#105For context: I'm sat on a trading floor in the City of London right now. I had a similar idea (inspired by Slashdot) about ten years ago but, like so many of my great ideas (e.g. time travel, teleportation), I never got around to implementing it. A site like BoredBanker.com will almost certainly be targeted by wannabes, trolls and banker-haters. If you don't keep them off the site, real bankers will be turned off by…
I agree, a similar system is put in place at Quibb, it works quite well.
Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
#106Small suggestion of the bikeshed variety: I think you should strongly consider to make the top bar height the same as the one on HN. I believe there are design reasons for why it is the that specific height - symmetry, contrast, margins, leading your focus etc. That is: if you are not a professional designer and have a good reason to make it otherwise, leave the top bar as it is.
Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
#107Kudos to everyone doing a "HN for this" but I feel like there is something else about "HN" that makes it "HN" than just the simple UI. So, I dunno ...
No, there is everything about HN rather than the horrible UI. If you start new HN, go ahead and fix at least that. Make it a responsive site (among other things). I am sure the financial sector would appreciate that more than the 90s feel of this website.
I like the minimalist UI, but a lot of the things seem broken. Reply doesn't work if you take too long to make a comment, the "next page" button often doesn't work, the reply button sometimes doesn't appear, the upvote button disapears when you press it so you can't take it back, there is no inbox, no way to collapse threads, etc.
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Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
#109For context: I'm sat on a trading floor in the City of London right now. I had a similar idea (inspired by Slashdot) about ten years ago but, like so many of my great ideas (e.g. time travel, teleportation), I never got around to implementing it. A site like BoredBanker.com will almost certainly be targeted by wannabes, trolls and banker-haters. If you don't keep them off the site, real bankers will be turned off by…
One alternate mechanism (there could be several) sure to ruffle feathers is to qualify users by their GMAT score (e.g. 700+ only), assuming such information were easily verifiable.
Such a 'qualification club' is inline with my own view of the type of exclusivity sought after by sterotyped or caricature B-school personalities.