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Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by ddeck »

nshinabarger wrote: post #56
iheartmemcache wrote: post #29

I highly suggest you curate the quality of your posts, users and comments. Perhaps, even at the expense of potential users. I think reddit is a prime example of how badly quality can deteriorate. I know there's no metric for 'good' vs 'bad' comments we can appeal to but I think we can all understand that all the 'true' subreddits[1] denote the fact that once you get far enough on the adoption curve[2] quality will st…

I think you bring up an excellent point. With traffic, content certainly tends to deteriorate, or at least change. Like you've noted, most things are their best at the beginning. This being said, how do you try and stay on the cutting edge of the best sites in their early stages? I'm honestly too young to have an experience with this myself, and don't expect finding out the best new sites to be easy or quick, but wha…

As someone who's spent most of their career in professional finance, my strong advice would be to avoid the proliferation of "contributor" sourced sites.

These sites typically allow anyone to write financial articles, trading recommendations etc. and get paid for page views. There is little to no verification of the content, let alone diligence on the credibility of the authors, and the quality of the discussion is extremely poor.

Unfortunately, given the volume of content they can produce through crowd sourcing, they are also extremely popular. Examples include Forbes, Seeking Alpha, The Motley Fool.

EDIT: Assuming your question was in relation to financial news.

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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nshinabarger wrote: post #56
iheartmemcache wrote: post #29

I highly suggest you curate the quality of your posts, users and comments. Perhaps, even at the expense of potential users. I think reddit is a prime example of how badly quality can deteriorate. I know there's no metric for 'good' vs 'bad' comments we can appeal to but I think we can all understand that all the 'true' subreddits[1] denote the fact that once you get far enough on the adoption curve[2] quality will st…

I think you bring up an excellent point. With traffic, content certainly tends to deteriorate, or at least change. Like you've noted, most things are their best at the beginning. This being said, how do you try and stay on the cutting edge of the best sites in their early stages? I'm honestly too young to have an experience with this myself, and don't expect finding out the best new sites to be easy or quick, but wha…

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Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by man_bear_pig »

iheartmemcache wrote: post #29

I highly suggest you curate the quality of your posts, users and comments. Perhaps, even at the expense of potential users. I think reddit is a prime example of how badly quality can deteriorate. I know there's no metric for 'good' vs 'bad' comments we can appeal to but I think we can all understand that all the 'true' subreddits[1] denote the fact that once you get far enough on the adoption curve[2] quality will st…

I'm a former banker/pe/prop trader and this is completely garbage content. Are you sure you are an investment banker or a quant?

This is stuff almost no banker cares about. Bitcoins? r u kidding me? Most bankers don't even trade b/c they don't know anything about the markets. Who is your intended audience? bankers or traders or everyone in finance? Bc unlike hackers the banking industry is extremely broad, but in this case you should start with a very focused group.

If you want to know how to make this 100x better than you can contact me. (Also it's sad that you would apply a plug and plug model... should have expected that you would as a banker since all bankers love using templates; HN sucks in today's standards and it only works because it has network effect (i.e Craigslist). If you had to make something from scratch why not make it so much better with technology available today?

You want content that's juicy. stick to keycard bumping. that article got spread across every banking anlayst inbox in an hour. or how about $500k upper west side craigslist chick? know your audience and what they want to read about. i guarantee you it's not 5 more articles on bitcoins.

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