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

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jackgavigan wrote: post #119
stevejalim wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That's very clique-y.

And This appears to be the lesson from the life cycle of High Signal to Noise ratio sites.

Initially there is the bleeding edge, and then there is the long noisy end.

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

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Post by arielserafini »

smsm42 wrote: post #80
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.

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).

But those names you cited are all easy to pronounce! Bored Banker is a lot longer and "stiffer" in my opinion.

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

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Post by rfnslyr »

dinkumthinkum wrote: post #67

Kudos 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 ...

I wonder if people would be interested in an HN style site, but one that is fantastically designed, and scales to all sorts of media (phones, tablets, desktop). I think that's what it needs.

You can't simply download the news.yc, make a new colour header, give it a name, and then set it off into the net.

I think you need to distinguish yourself and really just use news.yc as a base to build on.

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

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Post by mcherm »

VMG wrote: post #99
interstitial wrote: post #58

So it's like HN with more bitcoin?

It would be great if it would completely run on bitcoin microtransactions. Charge 0.01 mBTC per comment (to limit spam). Charge 0.01 mBTC per vote, pay a portion to the commenter. Integrate tipping.

That is a REALLY interesting idea. You'd need to add something to encourage highly valued contributions. Like perhaps the comments are paid for with points (purchasable for money) but the submitter of a story gets "paid" 25% of the points spent on comments unless another person submitted the same story within 6 hours (in which case no one gets paid). Posters of comments also can get back the cost of their comment if it receives more than N upvotes (tweak N until it works).

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

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Post by gadders »

jackgavigan wrote: post #97

For 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 think you'd have to have a policy to avoid particular items that get Compliance reaching for the BLOCK IT button - eg strict policy against people offering trading recommendations, for example.

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

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Post by chollida1 »

pgroves wrote: post #55

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

Wow, I'm deeply involved in the industry and I've never heard of the site.

A quick poll of 20 people on Bloomberg chat indicate that no one else had ever heard of it.

No wonder it didn't do well:) If your target audience has never heard of you, your going to have a hard time getting going:)

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

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Post by jackgavigan »

dfc wrote: post #120
Dwolb wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I take it you have very little experience with the GMAT. It is impossible to verify that a certain GMAT score belongs to an email. The only easy way to verify a GMAT score is to be a b-school and have applicants select your school for score reporting.

There's such a massive opportunity there for an organisation like GMAT to use PKC for this kind of thing.

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

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Post by foobarqux »

jakarta wrote: post #112
jackgavigan wrote: post #97

For 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 think the best example of recruiting good members is the SumZero model. SumZero is a buyside investor site, where buysiders can exchange and rank investment ideas with each other. It was started by Divya Narendra of Facebook fame. When I first signed up for SumZero, the application process was pretty extensive. It involved a phone call with Divya or one of the other co-founders to check you out and make sure you we…

Is SumZero a community? It looks like a broadcast medium for research reports.

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

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Post by chebucto »

GrahamsNumber wrote: post #6
Jagat wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Banker News

While that is no doubt a valid name, I find it extremely amusing for some reason edit: Probably too much time spent on hn

It is close in pronunciation to 'wanker news'.

Maybe 'Broker News' or 'Teller News'?

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