Good idea, good execution. High five.
high five back.
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#32How is this different than user created reddits on reddit? The only difference I see is that you can change the colors here. However, I will say that the colors are nice. :)
Not necessarily a minor difference. People have added blogs and message boards provided by 3rd parties and themed them so that they appear integrated with the main site. Does it follow that there might be a demand for an "integrated" niche social news equivalent? Kind of reminds me of ning too.
Ditto. Providing the ability to integrate such a link sharing/voting app into an existing website would make slinkset stand out! May I ask why the name slinkset? I don't get the name.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ok, so I created an account; it was a great experience. There are several requests I have: 1. Let users add custom CSS to it, so they can customize it the way they want. 2. Let users add a custom subdomain.
Cool. Both of those are on our todo list. Using an arbitrary domain works, but we haven't put it in the ui because it requires some work from the user and we want to make sure there is appropriate help so that it does not confuse anyone.
Awesome! As mentioned in the grandparent post, we're using it for family news, and we have a suggestion: give users the ability to hide certain links from certain users for a temporary period of time. For example, if my dad has a birthday coming up and we want to throw him a surprise birthday party, we can start a discussion link about organizing it, and have him not be able to see it. That news item would be hidden from him until 1 day after his birthday, or something like that; same thing for anniversaries.
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#34http://slinkset.com/signup_and_create
The vertical divider in the page made me think I only had to fill out one side or the other. "Setup your account" or "Setup your site" I thought. So I figured I could create my network just by entering title/URL/privacy option. Only after a little confusion did I realize it's not "or", but actually "and".
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#35Great work Brett. Very polished for getting started. You need to figure out how you can beat Reddit's new "build your own reddit" system. Maybe focusing on certain niches like families that like to share links (mine!), pet lovers, sports fans, etc. I think you could make fast inroads by figuring out how you can target folks like that rather than going after reddit.com head on.
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#36Great job, the design is nice. Just curious - about how long did it take to do?
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#37Pretty awesome. Slinkset looks like a great idea, good execution.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not necessarily a minor difference. People have added blogs and message boards provided by 3rd parties and themed them so that they appear integrated with the main site. Does it follow that there might be a demand for an "integrated" niche social news equivalent? Kind of reminds me of ning too.
Ditto. Providing the ability to integrate such a link sharing/voting app into an existing website would make slinkset stand out! May I ask why the name slinkset? I don't get the name.
There's not really anything to get. I'm more worried about you being able to remember and spell it.
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#39Like the design simplicity. A possible idea on how to differentiate it from reddit. Consider having an option that makes it almost like a media producer.
What I mean is, while the post link is interesting, when it comes to something like Hacker News I always click through for the comments, because they're usually great. What about combining this idea with almost a kind of private access and putting the point system to more use?
For example: You have the link (or topic) that is submitted as they are now, and then the discussion that occurs from the link (or topic). As people like it, they vote it up or down (giving it points). However, all this discussion is taking place not in public view (recalling the invite only). But each day a submission goes public (also opening up comments) based on which one has the most points. This essentially creates 1 piece of interesting material a day (similar to that of a blog) based on dynamic discussion.
Just a thought.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cool. Both of those are on our todo list. Using an arbitrary domain works, but we haven't put it in the ui because it requires some work from the user and we want to make sure there is appropriate help so that it does not confuse anyone.
Awesome! As mentioned in the grandparent post, we're using it for family news, and we have a suggestion: give users the ability to hide certain links from certain users for a temporary period of time. For example, if my dad has a birthday coming up and we want to throw him a surprise birthday party, we can start a discussion link about organizing it, and have him not be able to see it. That news item would be hidden…
and to think '' there are thousands of people paying for a service like this at myfamily.com ( a few more features, but barely)