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Show HN: Revboat - startup Q&A community

7 pointsadrianwaj12 comments

Right now, a freshly configured question2answer.org installation for people involved in startups.

Great, yet another Q&A site...

I would recommend asking yourself: What does Revboat offer that other Q&A sites fall short on?

Also, you NEED to hire a designer. The current design is offensive to the eyes.

hmm, do you find the basic http://www.question2answer.org/qa/ theme as bad?

What do the other ones not offer? I like the idea of having due-diligence on startup questions... like what YC partners do..

First of all, build a custom theme. Downloading a pre-built Q&A PHP script and throwing it up on your server takes virtually no skill/work and visitors can sense this lack of effort within milliseconds of the first page loading...

Also, how is your site better than the YC area of Quora, for example?

If you want to work on it, drop me an email. What's the YC area of Quora?

I don't have your email... you can contact me through my site if you'd like: http://connorbaskauskas.com.

http://www.quora.com/Y-Combinator

I know of two active stackexchange sites for startups: http://startups.com and http://answers.onstartups.com

To compete I think you'll need a better design and really good content. Just seeing one "test questions" is not a good first impression. Good luck!

What do think about the idea of pivoting, and making it a board to display YC/Seedcamp-like questionnaires?

i think...you have a ways to go.

The current design is going to turn people away. The kind of people who would use a startup, seedcamp, etc questions site are the kind of people that expect good design and UI. It needs a lot of work.

What about turning it into a boating questions site?

Simplicity is not stupidity. This board is pretty basic too. Q&A is a crowded space.

http://revboat.com

sorry to kill your spirit but what are you doing?

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