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

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Post by dfc »

jackgavigan wrote: post #128
dfc wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

For you and me maybe, but not for GMAT. It is my experience that the primary motivation for big organizations is to get their beaks wet. GMAT charges for additional score reports after the initial 6(?) that are included in the test fee.

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

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Post by makmanalp »

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…

Re: lobste.rs, Every time I go on there, I don't see a bustling community and interesting discussion, I just see dead silence, no comments, and a few upvotes. Take a look now: https://lobste.rs/ The links are good, but that's about it.

I think that's a problem with the invite only way: it can be too exclusive to build enough critical mass to create a community in the first place. It's easy to argue that there is no noise if there is close to no signal.

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

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Post by manmal »

I made this HN reader app for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manuelmaly...

Source code is here: https://github.com/manmal/hn-android

Would you be ok with me porting it to BoredBanker? It seems that you copied HN's DOM pretty closely, so that might be a technical no-brainer?

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

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Post by Dwolb »

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.

The above suggestion is an idea. Understood that today GMAT might not allow such functionality, but the organization has the data internally to send score reports.

Correct, not supported today, but feasible with business development.

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

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Post by Nicholas_C »

Not a fan of the name. Bankers are only a small portion of finance folks, and I don't want my boss to see me browsing a site with connotations that I'm "bored". Why not just "Finance News"?

Great execution though. I wanted to do something like this, but now I'm glad I didn't because you've done a bang-up job. As a finance person I will definitely contribute.

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

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Post by dfc »

Dwolb wrote: post #135
dfc wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The above suggestion is an idea. Understood that today GMAT might not allow such functionality, but the organization has the data internally to send score reports. Correct, not supported today, but feasible with business development.

How is GMAT going to monetize the easy score verification? And is that effort going to be worth the additional revenue? I can't imagine there is a big market for GMAT score reporting outside of b-school apps. I think most employers just accept self reporting or a copy of the score report in pdf.

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

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Post by jackgavigan »

dfc wrote: post #131
jackgavigan wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

For you and me maybe, but not for GMAT. It is my experience that the primary motivation for big organizations is to get their beaks wet. GMAT charges for additional score reports after the initial 6(?) that are included in the test fee.

Well, they could charge for signing your public key...

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

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Post by tptacek »

stevejalim wrote: post #102
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…

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.

Net result: nobody uses lobste.rs.

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

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Post by the_watcher »

benologist wrote: post #79
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 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.

> AdSense clicks are probably worth lots.

Is there something specific about finance that makes AdSense more valuable besides traffic? And if you already have traffic, seeding it in a brand new forum doesn't seem like a good way to get a big boost. From what I understand, there is a reason why high traffic blogs like Instapundit are supported more by Amazon affiliate type programs than AdSense revenue. AdSense will make you a bit of money, but I don't really know of anyone who uses it as their primary income.

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