Any more science related news aggregates like this? F*ck it - list all the great aggregates like Hacker News.
> F*ck it - list all the great aggregates like Hacker News.
Got a link?
We Built a Hacker News for Biotech
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Re: We Built a Hacker News for Biotech
#42Any more science related news aggregates like this? F*ck it - list all the great aggregates like Hacker News.
My current project alltech.io - decidedly not like HN, but an aggregator nonetheless
Re: We Built a Hacker News for Biotech
#43We see 1 or 2 of these "Hacker News for X" sites a month. Have any of you succeeded and developed a community beyond the spike of interest you received making the HN frontpage?
Re: We Built a Hacker News for Biotech
#44I think the biggest problem with the homebrew biotech world right now is that even with the labs opening up, there's still such a barrier to entry. There's a "hello world" to biotech, no doubt; extract some DNA from strawberries or explore the tiny world with a consumer microscope. But then what? There doesn't seem to be much potential mid-tier work to be done in biotech. In contrast with software where there is a ve…
No doubt you need investors to get started and arguably some technology. Or, you can start in the service sector and license someone else's tech.
Re: We Built a Hacker News for Biotech
#45We see 1 or 2 of these "Hacker News for X" sites a month. Have any of you succeeded and developed a community beyond the spike of interest you received making the HN frontpage?
Datatau isn't doing too bad.
Re: We Built a Hacker News for Biotech
#46Why are there invites, and why is there a limited number of them?
May they wanted to use that for creating traction in the first days of the launch... then again everyone can just signup and this doesn't make sense...
Re: We Built a Hacker News for Biotech
#47It's funny...looking at the OP, I suddenly realize how much real estate is wasted on HN and its single column layout...if the OP reduced font-size and a little line-height, it could fit almost as many headlines above-the-fold as HN does, using much less horizontal space. But maybe I'm old, and too familiar with HN, and too resistant to change, but HN's fuck-it-just-fill-the-column-with-a-table layout is comfortable i…
Just in case you or anyone else is interested, OP is using Monocle, an open source link sharing platform.
Re: We Built a Hacker News for Biotech
#48We see 1 or 2 of these "Hacker News for X" sites a month. Have any of you succeeded and developed a community beyond the spike of interest you received making the HN frontpage?
It's an interesting question. I certainly hope engagement will be consistent and develop into a watering hole for Biotech entrepreneurs from all over.
One thing we have in our favor for Biotech Pulse is the baseline community of 19 early stage companies and their teams here at Harlem Biospace. We are hoping since this community already exists in the shared space that this will be a strong seed for the online community to grow from.
Re: We Built a Hacker News for Biotech
#49No idea how influencial harlembiospace is, but with all those "HN Clones" these days it's worth pointing out that to build an "HN Clone" one should start with being a major player in the respective industry. Compared to that, putting up a forum software is nothing.
In the early days HN felt absolutely hardcore to me. Comments were clearly part of an extended (or future) Y-Combinator application (and last time I checked, the Y-Combinator application form is still asking for your HN account) and there was absolutely no bullshit.
This was particularly clear in discussions about games - they were strictly about the technical or sociological aspects, no one would ever admit to playing (everyone's working on their starup, right?). I remember the first tentative comments from the player's perspective being scoffed at, and even today I feel a little dirty in those EVE online threads, heh.
Point is, knowing that "pg" was watching has always ensured a high quality of comments, and indirectly made HN the place to be.
Re: We Built a Hacker News for Biotech
#50We see 1 or 2 of these "Hacker News for X" sites a month. Have any of you succeeded and developed a community beyond the spike of interest you received making the HN frontpage?
Designer News (news.layervault.com) has been doing quite well. It's been my go-to for design info for a while now.