Honest question -- what's the real utility of a founder network like this above, say, actively participating on HN regularly?
Forrst is so useful because it's specialized. I don't see that (yet) here.
Forrst is so useful because it's specialized. I don't see that (yet) here.
For example, if HN has 99 employees for every one founder, what do you think will happen if you try to discuss how to set up options and vesting such that in a liquidity event, the employees are still bound to the company and won't quit when they discover they have new bosses?
You aren't going to get the same conversation as if you just discuss the question with other founders. I'm not saying the HN discussion will be less valuable, but can we agree that some conversations will be different?
...and that's worth building an entirely new product and trying to move select people from HN to it?
Also, I could be wrong about this, but I don't see people moving to it any more than people moved from HN to Facebook or vice versa. Different communities for different purposes.
Somebody who is actively spending their life trying to grow a business doesn't have time to "actively participate" in HN, because HN is a timesuck. It's largely filled of stories that have little or no impact for somebody who is actually on the ground, executing their business.
None of this means that HN is a bad place. But active participation in this community is a bad idea for the entrepreneur whose target market is something other than startups.
A site aiming to be the "Forrst for founders" would give entrepreneurs (budding or established) a space to throw around ideas, small screenshots, or bits of business knowledge that are just too "small" for HN.