JustHackIt: It’s Like a Dating Site For Hackers
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But your solution is imperfect.
This is the ideal situation! If your solution was perfect, someone could just copy it as is. But if you need to keep improving it, building it, it becomes harder to copy, and you gain a deeper understanding of the problem (and solution). This is valuable. Any copier-guy is playing catch up - and people usually aren't all that keen on that guy. The danger is if you perfect it! Because then you are standing still, with no where to go, and it's inevitable that others will catch up. The copier guy is now just as good as you (perhaps better on other factors that you don't care about, but some users do...).
The ideal problem is one that can't be solved, like some human need that technology can't actually perfectly address. You then have an endless runway to perfect it. With your headstart, deeper understanding of problem & solutions (and most importantly) all the market benefits of being The Guy (feedback on what works, complaints on what doesn't, statistics on same, more users finding more bugs, and let's not forget encouragement and admiration! Very motivating), you have the best chance of keeping that headstart forever.
Well, that's my analysis of competitive advantage, anyway. :-) But I wonder if you're better off just making something cool that "people want", and not sparing an moment's thought for the competition...
So more like a dating/matchmaking site?While I don't mind posts from TC being on the Hacker news homepage I'd rather they be posts with substance rather than announcement posts like this one.
That's cool, I just don't see the value to Hacker news readers to have the TC story submitted when it has very little commentary and generally leads to having 2 stories on the same thing on the Hacker news frontpage. I know I've upmodded TC stories only to see the actual site link a minute later.
Geez.
It's amazing, and enables you to try out a cool idea (like JustHackIt) really quickly. I created a site in about 10-15mins (most of the time was because I had trouble uploading a photo as the "logo").
Already got over 100 members and 4,000 uniques. Anyone have any ideas how to keep it going/improve it?
Perhaps that's overly cynical.
You're already doing well. Follow your gut and blog the experience as much as you can. This worked well for balsamic.
This way, you don't have people posting and not getting a response from the original poster who's moved on. Maybe implement a button the OP could click that shows up red next to the title on the main page, to let people know. Those posts slowly lose importance over time, and if the original poster doesn't end up meeting anyone that fits, they can hit the button again and the post becomes active again.
*Edit: it would also have the advantage of removing irrelevant data. Once a site becomes popular, information overload is a problem. So if you knew someone was already chatting with someone, you wouldn't get frustrated looking through all the posts.
Still?
I first read this as, "It's for people who launched their software the night before." Interesting choice of demographic.
"You don't need a push button news site. Installing your own is easy enough."
>"So is Slinkset really necessary?'