Hacker News clone for Singapore

#1

Post by dgr » Thu, Jul 30, 2009, 12:11 PM UTC

Hacker News clone for Singapore
sigint.sg

Re: Hacker News clone for Singapore

#2

Post by pibefision » Thu, Jul 30, 2009, 12:33 PM UTC

Also, check http://123emprender.com for a spanish community about hacking/entrepreneurship

Re: Hacker News clone for Singapore

#3

Post by joshfinnie » Thu, Jul 30, 2009, 12:41 PM UTC

pibefision wrote: post #2

Also, check http://123emprender.com for a spanish community about hacking/entrepreneurship

At least 123emprender.com took some liberties with the design. Sigint.sg took the design along with the functionality.

Re: Hacker News clone for Singapore

#4

Post by dgr » Thu, Jul 30, 2009, 12:50 PM UTC

joshfinnie wrote: post #3

pibefision wrote: post #2

Also, check http://123emprender.com for a spanish community about hacking/entrepreneurship

At least 123emprender.com took some liberties with the design. Sigint.sg took the design along with the functionality.

It was actually never intended for sigint.sg to seem like it was created independently. There's a link back to Hacker News in the FAQ: http://www.sigint.sg/faq

Re: Hacker News clone for Singapore

#5

Post by abi » Thu, Jul 30, 2009, 12:51 PM UTC

One suggestion I have is to reduce the number of links on the frontpage to say 15 instead of 30 until there's a little more traffic on the site.

On the whole, great effort! Look forward to participating.

Re: Hacker News clone for Singapore

#6

Post by unalone » Thu, Jul 30, 2009, 1:00 PM UTC

joshfinnie wrote: post #3

pibefision wrote: post #2

Also, check http://123emprender.com for a spanish community about hacking/entrepreneurship

At least 123emprender.com took some liberties with the design. Sigint.sg took the design along with the functionality.

That's because it's powered by Reddit, not Arc. They're both about the same in terms of undesign.

Re: Hacker News clone for Singapore

#7

Post by chaosprophet » Thu, Jul 30, 2009, 1:02 PM UTC

dgr wrote: post #4

joshfinnie wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least 123emprender.com took some liberties with the design. Sigint.sg took the design along with the functionality.

It was actually never intended for sigint.sg to seem like it was created independently. There's a link back to Hacker News in the FAQ: http://www.sigint.sg/faq

While we are talking looks I might as well add that the light blue header doesn't go too well with the brown background. #BFDFF9 would look better.

Re: Hacker News clone for Singapore

#8

Post by dgr » Thu, Jul 30, 2009, 1:06 PM UTC

abi wrote: post #5

One suggestion I have is to reduce the number of links on the frontpage to say 15 instead of 30 until there's a little more traffic on the site. On the whole, great effort! Look forward to participating.

Ok good suggestion. I'll dig around the code to change that when the traffic dies down.

Re: Hacker News clone for Singapore

#9

Post by byrneseyeview » Thu, Jul 30, 2009, 1:10 PM UTC

What's the startup scene in SG like? Also, are their consumer Internet companies mostly English-language, or multilingual?

Re: Hacker News clone for Singapore

#10

Post by dgr » Thu, Jul 30, 2009, 1:24 PM UTC

byrneseyeview wrote: post #9

What's the startup scene in SG like? Also , are their consumer Internet companies mostly English-language, or multilingual?

Not yet comparable to the bay area but definitely picking up. There also seems to be a genuine desire by the government here to see the startup scene flourish and they're allocating resources as such.

Consumer Internet companies here are predominantly English language.