A page of links can't be launched. It can be UPLOADED, but not launched.
Ask HackerNews: New website launched QCrunch.com. Feedback?
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Re: Ask HackerNews: New website launched QCrunch.com. Feedback?
#22A page of links can't be launched. It can be UPLOADED, but not launched.
There's some statistics behind it too(both backend and javascript--the latter only coming with a certain probability) to update it based on what's popular.
Re: Ask HackerNews: New website launched QCrunch.com. Feedback?
#23You absolutely NEED the RSS feeds for each of these sites, otherwise it's just a bunch of uncustomizable links; totally worthless. I'll stick with my iGoogle at the moment.
Thanks for the feedback aj. I don't think it's totally worthless. Thousands of people use our similar sites daily for different niches. I don't know if this niche will work, but there are at least a portion of this area who like something like this.
Re: Ask HackerNews: New website launched QCrunch.com. Feedback?
#24What current problem are you solving exactly?
A very small one: getting you to the pages you use the most faster. We're aiming to help a small proportion (1-20%) of people in this niche who don't want to do any customization.
Once you build up a decent amount of traffic, you can add a few things that can only work if you have a steady flow of people using the same start page. We hope to replicate the success of some other niches in this market.
Re: Ask HackerNews: New website launched QCrunch.com. Feedback?
#25Guys, 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.
Oh like 12 years late. I remember making my own start page in 1995. But I think this one's a pretty good start page. I think it's better than google.com for most people who are in the web 2.0 community but don't want to update their own start page.
Re: Ask HackerNews: New website launched QCrunch.com. Feedback?
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
oh no i meant igoogle. this is basically just your bookmarks with a google search bar, right?
plus the statistics, which are used to auto update the site monthly to ensure the best links are placed up top.
why do i care what the most popular links to blogs are? if i like techcrunch i go to techcrunch, i could care less if 10 more people clicked it the day before. this doesn't do any value adds.
Re: Ask HackerNews: New website launched QCrunch.com. Feedback?
#27Guys, 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.
Oh like 12 years late. I remember making my own start page in 1995. But I think this one's a pretty good start page. I think it's better than google.com for most people who are in the web 2.0 community but don't want to update their own start page.
Please note I'm not saying you guys are unable build a great site; however I am saying this isn't it. Keep chipping away at the idea and I wish you guys the best of luck!