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Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?

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Now we know why the superintelligent being called himself "Q". Another alternative is to name yourself Zed, then emigrate to the UK.

But, we like to reserve one character identifiers for variables used in loops and such, right?

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Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?

#93
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http://www.imageboard.net/top/ A forum designed without the use of text using just images to communicate with a built in editor and voting tools. Roommate and I made it as a toy for a programming competition, so we weren't expecting grand things. It got grabbed by the 4chan crowd so... uh... yeah. I linked to the best ones for a reason ;)

animation might be an interesting direction to go in.

great concept, i'm glad some crowd picked it up. seems like something 4chan or ytmnd would dig.

Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?

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post #28

http://www.imageboard.net/top/ A forum designed without the use of text using just images to communicate with a built in editor and voting tools. Roommate and I made it as a toy for a programming competition, so we weren't expecting grand things. It got grabbed by the 4chan crowd so... uh... yeah. I linked to the best ones for a reason ;)

Lots of, uh, phalluses.

that's simply the mysterious way in which 4chan operates. but it's a good observation. maybe this tool can attract a different niche audience if there was a way to create a fresh, empty canvas forum that wouldn't intersect with the current website in too many ways.

Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?

#95
when i was in college i created the site, icantspelldostoevsky.com.

it was kind of a play on words, there was never a correct way to spell dostoevsky, and since he was an existential man, the site was meant as a philosophical discussion playground. think wiki for philosophy, but at the time wikimedia was not around yet, and i used bulletin board software.

Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?

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post #89

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Now you're talking! You can call me "Al" from now on, thanks.

My hairdresser is from Korea. His name? "D". Beat that!

I'll see your D and raise you a friend named Y.

(With apologies for the figure of speech to our poker playing friends).

Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?

#97
post #46

http://www.thephotostream.com could change the way people consume their daily web.

Nice! Make it scroll scroll scroll as people add new stories.

Yeah one of the things I am working on is ways to do two things:

1) See "more" than the 28 newest on the homepage.

AND

2) See when people click / add stories to the stream.

Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?

#98
post #7

http://cadmium.avecora.com/ Failed social network advertising system that targets advertisements to Facebook Application users, by profile keywords (interests, activities), age, gender, specific networks, etc. Also targets ads throughout the web in participating partner websites. Apparently no interest, and then Facebook launched Social Ads, with similar targeting features a month or so later. Was hoping to integrate…

Very impressive. I was going to say, "for a 15 year old", but that demeans the work--it's impressive, regardless of age, to build something like that in a short time frame with a small team. And very astute from a business perspective. Every time there is an ad network acquisition my first thought is, "Wow, that must be the last one of those", because there have been so many, and all of the really well-known names ha…

'I was going to say, "for a 15 year old", but that demeans the work'

And 15 yr olds. I mean, I've met some kids who are better hackers than I would ever dream of being -- I'm guessing that markbao is in that category. So concentrating on the guy's age seems like completely the wrong take on this.

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