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Wow, the amount of time and effort that she must have dedicated in completing her feedback is astounding.

The least we can do is bump up a post about her startup the day it launches.

Bloggergirl, get ready for the voluminous amount of web traffic on launch day!

Hm, you've just given me an idea: A HN based traffic exchange, where HN members with large websites would donate excess inventory to pull new starter-uppers off the ground.

Does that have merit?

I think this is the type of thing where formulating & formalizing is a mistake. It would be better if this sort of just culturally "evolved."

eg.

jacquesm posts 'I'll promote one startup on launch day that helps another HNer in a meaningful way.'

bloggergirl offer help accepted by kabuks resulting in this post.

I wonder if HN isn't a little big for this though.

Just like attempting to formalize it may be a mistake, thinking HN might be too big is an equally limiting mistake. Ideally the pay-it-forward concept would encompass every individual globally and as such it has no upper limit.

When in doubt, just concentrate on what you can do :)

Maybe that should be maybe HN is too big considering that this isn't its main purpose.

> jacquesm posts 'I'll promote one startup on launch day that helps another HNer in a meaningful way.'

I've already been doing that for a while, I was just wondering if it might be useful to give that some bigger shoes.

I'm sure that any of the sites here that are large enough to be selling ads would have some unsold inventory or inventory that they could miss without any pain whatsoever.

If you have to set that up on a per-instance basis it is a lot of work (it is for me) so that might take the sting out of it and make it more practical.

No ... companies that have merit tend to get the attention they deserve. If not immediately, eventually. As for the community, anybody who contributes is much more likely to get attention in the long-run.

Also, what is the "excess inventory" that you are referring to?

A submission to hacker news is a pitch to the community ... the community will vote up anything that has merit ... that was the point of the community in the first place!

Feedback Roulette is already doing great work in this area.

You review random sites, get karma points then your site gets reviewed by other users in proportion to your karma. Brilliant. Symbiosis at its best

http://feedbackroulette.com/

Interesting. When did this launch?

It was on HN frontpage last weekend I believe

I had an idea for ths exact thing 83 days ago. Glad somebody did it. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1574127

So it was:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1815682

Would anyone actually use this,, and do people actually have excess inventory? I have various bits of code that together would go most of the way to building this.

(Specifically I have a Python/AppEngine link exchange app that I never launched, as well as a Java/AppEngine context sensitive ad-serving engine with clickthough tracking & optimization etc that I built for fun)

Most people selling advertising have some amount of excess inventory... Even Google doesn't always fill all the ad spots with paying adwords.

It launched yesterday I think http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1833027

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