Very clean design, and I like the goal of 4-5 high quality posts a day. Looking forward to tracking its progress!
Expectations: Follow up to "I'm building a better TechCrunch"
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Re: Expectations: Follow up to "I'm building a better TechCrunch"
#12For a site that -- at least on the Web site -- does not wish to be compared to TechCrunch (as evidenced by the footer text), why even include the footer reference to TechCrunch? I get that was the stated goal here, but that footer is confusing without the context of the Hacker News announcement.
That text shouldn't have been pushed live. Just a joke for some of my friends that were helping me beta test it.
It's already removed on the main site.
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#13This should be a nice alternative to pop journalism about the incestuous topics (Foursquare's gonna make it, AT&T sucks, Apple is awesome but we still like to call their shit, Foursquare is still awesome, MG Siegler cut himself on the edge of his Macbook Air...) It's amazing how much crap those guys produce and how little they do stir up interesting startups. Arrington's "no embargo" policy - supposedly principled -…
The no embargo policy is really only enforced for startups that don't know what they're doing. That happens to be a lot of otherwise-unknown YC startups that choose to launch on TechCrunch.
I don't see how it's at about principles at all or at odds with giving stuff to readers--it's always been about embargoes getting broken, and nothing else, as far as I know.
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#14g0atbutt, one tip. Putting together a mockup using this Wordpress theme last night (http://wpshower.com/free-wordpress-themes/sight-1-0-free-wor...) I noticed a typo in the social sharing links thing. If you mouseover the digg button it actually pops 'Bookmark on del.icio.us'
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#15"We are a member of the InfluAds network. The quality of advertisers here is incredible. You will only see one (relevant) ad on the sidebar because of this great partner."
I give it a month. These hipster advertising networks never pay near enough that you can make, once you hit "success" with traffic you'll be funding out of your own pocket if you don't switch.
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#16Against the many comments/suggestions that were made in previous posts apparently g0atbutt is still g0atbutt. Regardless, the site looks great and I am excited to see what comes from it.
Haha, yes I am. I've had it for years, doesn't seem right to change it now…
"That's the way it's always been" is a really, really awful justification for perpetuating things. I dropped my nick of several years not too long ago in favor of my real name.
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#17"We are a member of the InfluAds network. The quality of advertisers here is incredible. You will only see one (relevant) ad on the sidebar because of this great partner." I give it a month. These hipster advertising networks never pay near enough that you can make, once you hit "success" with traffic you'll be funding out of your own pocket if you don't switch.
The Deck seems pretty viable (http://decknetwork.net/) but then InfluAds seems to be fairly, um, inspired by The Deck's angle.
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#18"We are a member of the InfluAds network. The quality of advertisers here is incredible. You will only see one (relevant) ad on the sidebar because of this great partner." I give it a month. These hipster advertising networks never pay near enough that you can make, once you hit "success" with traffic you'll be funding out of your own pocket if you don't switch.
that "to be announced" ratecard on influands is kind of a giveaway :)
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#19I wish you could make something like Startup Arabia http://www.startuparabia.com) but for the whole world. They have got a very nice design and well written articles.
They write about new startups and important events in the startup world. That's all. No other bullshit. I would also love some other guest posts that discuss important matters in the startup industry.
Re: Expectations: Follow up to "I'm building a better TechCrunch"
#20g0atbutt, one tip. Putting together a mockup using this Wordpress theme last night ( http://wpshower.com/free-wordpress-themes/sight-1-0-free-wor... ) I noticed a typo in the social sharing links thing. If you mouseover the digg button it actually pops 'Bookmark on del.icio.us'
Love the mockup, a screenshot on the left, startup intro to the right. Wish you the best. I'll be reading it every day.