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Re: Ask HackerNews: New website launched QCrunch.com. Feedback?

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Post by breck »

paulgb wrote: post #10
breck wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

thanks. you're right, it's great for my homepage. the idea is to make it the best page for 1-20% of the web 2.0 community. i made one for my college as well, and it was mainly just for my homepage, but there are a lot of people that don't like to make their own homepages or customize thinks like igoogle, so we're trying to provide this segment with a great product.

Fair enough, but I doubt there is much of an overlap between the "web 2.0"/hacker community and the kind of people who don't like to customize their homepage.

lol. good point. i guess we should target it toward the lazy web 2.0 crowd.

Re: Ask HackerNews: New website launched QCrunch.com. Feedback?

#12

Post by dyu »

Maybe it's just me (and this is more of a general comment to start pages), I don't see the need for a search bar in start pages, I can easily (cmd/ctrl+k) go to the search bar in the browser and it's not that much harder.

As for your site, bmaier's suggestion is good, but if you are concerned about speed maybe you can do some ajax request on some local cached copy of the latest headlines?

Re: Ask HackerNews: New website launched QCrunch.com. Feedback?

#13

Post by rokhayakebe »

Your concept is good but I think you are simply going after the wrong niche. Web2.0 guys have bookmarks/tabs and once they fire FF they probably have all tabs open and they can use the google search box on the toolbar. You should apply the same concept to sports for example and create startup page with the hottest sport website and links ...Then go after teenagers and launch the Gossip or Hollywood startup page...Before you know it you will have all these niche communities. That's just my 2 cents.

Re: Ask HackerNews: New website launched QCrunch.com. Feedback?

#14

Post by brianr »

A plain google search isn't very useful, but what MIGHT be useful is a google custom search that has all the sites you listed pre-included. (See http://www.google.com/coop/cse/ ).

If you had that and included the most recent headlines from the sites you listed, it might be useful enough to get me to try it.

Re: Ask HackerNews: New website launched QCrunch.com. Feedback?

#15

Post by breck »

rokhayakebe wrote: post #13

Your concept is good but I think you are simply going after the wrong niche. Web2.0 guys have bookmarks/tabs and once they fire FF they probably have all tabs open and they can use the google search box on the toolbar. You should apply the same concept to sports for example and create startup page with the hottest sport website and links ...Then go after teenagers and launch the Gossip or Hollywood startup page...Bef…

Yes very true. This niche probably isn't the best for this type of product. Our goal is to create something for us to use and share it with the community. I would encourage anyone interested to talk to me about how you could go about building a startup around creating these types of start pages. We've created a handful of pretty successful ones with 100k+ unique monthlys so there probably is a small startup opportunity here.

Re: Ask HackerNews: New website launched QCrunch.com. Feedback?

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Post by breck »

brianr wrote: post #14

A plain google search isn't very useful, but what MIGHT be useful is a google custom search that has all the sites you listed pre-included. (See http://www.google.com/coop/cse/ ). If you had that and included the most recent headlines from the sites you listed, it might be useful enough to get me to try it.

Google Custom Search might add value. Anyone know if there are any successful custom search engines?

Re: Ask HackerNews: New website launched QCrunch.com. Feedback?

#17

Post by breck »

dyu wrote: post #12

Maybe it's just me (and this is more of a general comment to start pages), I don't see the need for a search bar in start pages, I can easily (cmd/ctrl+k) go to the search bar in the browser and it's not that much harder. As for your site, bmaier's suggestion is good, but if you are concerned about speed maybe you can do some ajax request on some local cached copy of the latest headlines?

I'm with you: I do the same thing(ctrl+k) and rarely if ever use the search bar. But a surprising number of people still do.

The AJAX suggestion is good. One of our requirements though is minimal effort on our part(we've got a real startup as our primary job).

Re: Ask HackerNews: New website launched QCrunch.com. Feedback?

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Post by ed »

Guys, no offense, but you're a few years late to the static homepage party.

Here's a random idea: how about a service which turns any webpage into an rss feed? It'd basically provide a compiled feed of text delta's, which can be added to an existing feed reader. It'd be helpful for people who want to keep up to date with "feedless" sites.

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