I had wanted to create something similar at one point but thought there was too much activity in this space. I now see that there was definitely room for improvement. I like what you've done so far. The hardest part will, of course, prevent gaming of the system once it gets popular. But assuming you have a good strategy for that it looks like you have a winner on your hands.
List Gorilla: Our project over the last few months
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Re: List Gorilla: Our project over the last few months
#12I had wanted to create something similar at one point but thought there was too much activity in this space. I now see that there was definitely room for improvement. I like what you've done so far. The hardest part will, of course, prevent gaming of the system once it gets popular. But assuming you have a good strategy for that it looks like you have a winner on your hands.
Getting great content that is a true refection of sentiment is going to be a challenge. We do have a few ideas on how to make it tough to game, but I'm quite happy to have that problem.
Thanks for the feedback.
Re: List Gorilla: Our project over the last few months
#13Some feedback:
- when I tried to contribute, it asked me to login, but provided no links to login. Throw the twitter and google oauth links in that modal so I don't have to go hunting for it.
- provide a field for a url to the actual item in addition to the title, description, and image. I was trying to find some of the iPad apps that were recommended in a list, but had to hunt them down manually using google.
- on the list builder, I'd like to see some automatic link crawling so I don't have to hunt down the image and description. So if I paste in a link to an iphone app, it will crawl that site for an image, and use the meta description and page title (editable by me after the fact, of course).
- tried to create a test list, but it threw back validation errors. problem is, it didn't say what was wrong with the form.
- the tag field is not intuitive. I understand what you're trying to do, but I think saying "enter tags separated by spaces" would be more straightforward.
- A list building bookmarklet or chrome plugin would be awesome too.
Re: List Gorilla: Our project over the last few months
#14This is really nice. A great idea, and looks to be done really well. Good luck with it!
Re: List Gorilla: Our project over the last few months
#15I remember Amazon tried doing this a few years ago with Listmania. I really liked that site because I could just search for 'hosting' or 'sci-fi' and I'd get an idea of what the community thought were the best options. Then I could research the top ten results myself. It was a really nice site for basic research and I kept coming back to it about once a week -- the had lists on everything
1. I think your design is better than Listmania's design. Allowing embedded images is a huge plus.
2. Watch out for tons of spam when you get popular.
3. Change your name? Listering.com and listles.com are both available.
4. Make sure your results don't get stagnant. For popular terms like "Hosting" or "Best Movies" etc try to make older lists lose their ranking really quickly. It'll keep the discussion alive, let new people have a voice, and keep your site up to date -- all super important things with a content site.