Comment by BonesLF | Hacker News Reader

Comment by BonesLF | Hacker News Reader

So I just posted a link to Khan Academy (linked here earlier).

So tell me, how is your service different and more exciting than say Reddit or Digg or this site? I noticed I could not add a custom title and custom description.

I do like how it grabs the webpage info, however I have seen other link aggregators that do the same thing. Most of them would be called 'social bookmarking' sites. Reddit and Digg and HN are more like 'social bookmarking' + 'commentville'.

If I could add a suggestion.. do 'social bookmarking' + 'your secret sauce' that is magical and team up with some marketers who will spread your shit around the web like wildfire so you can get some traction and then throw up some ads on there if you want to pay for the bandwidth and hopefully a sports car.

Also: fuck that guy who said "get another job". Never back down on your entrepreneurship because you WILL make it happen. It might take 10 sites to make money, or 100. Just don't give up. The world needs more people like you, and more like him to pay us smart guys. :)

One last thing: kudos on the 4 character domain.

Hi Bones, you're right, we're the same as a lot of services, we looked at the way Digg, Reddit, Stumble Upon, Delicious, Facebook Links, Tumblr, etc., work and we decided to focus on an area none of them focus on.

I like sharing links, I post funny videos on my Facebook account all the time. I like the way its quick and easy. But sometimes I don't get comments because my friend circle is small. I don't mind if its public. I read reddit everyday, I love their sense of community. But I don't post on Reddit because I would never get upvoted enough to make it matter. Yet still, I have a desire to share content in a public way thats is quick and easy.

We call them "link blogs", kinda like Facebook Links + Twitter. We could then link posts by different people (to the same source) to a unified discussion page, like the way Reddit comment pages work. So I post an Obama article, you post the exact same article, but our followers get to discuss it in the same comment page.

Just a little taste of what we're thinking about. Thanks!

If I read this right it sounds intriguing. One of the problems with Reddit for example is tons of people compete for the exact same link with clever(read:usually horrifically melodramatic overstatements of truth) titles and only the one guy makes it to the front page.

So you are saying that exact same links will be somehow connected - like on the Obama article - everyone will see whoever also linked the same thing?

Yep, the technicals would have to be hammered out, but imagine the comments page that also shows, "People who also posted this", and lists the users. Also the ability to 1 click repost to your account to repost it on your blog.

Good idea.

Noticed I could go back in and edit my post title after I submitted the link. Maybe make it optional up front?

This is actually something we've been juggling with for the past few days. We like how it is quick and easy (1 click) to post a link, but as you mentioned, requires more work if the user is not happy with it.

What are your guys' thoughts on this?

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