With it being that easy to set up, what are your thoughts on reddit/digg style targetted niche sites? If you have a niche product, would you use slinkset to promote it?
I find this problematic. Charging for such service is fine, but I need to know the price before I'll devote my time and energy into building a new site under it. I think it would be better to work that out first and then give an exact offer. Other than that, it looks interesting.
Slinkset is good when your boss says, "I heard about this web 2.0 voting news site thingy and I want us to have one that looks like the rest of our website because then I can say buzzwords." It allows you to make it look in-house enough, but it still looks slinkset-y. It's good when you're an implementer of technologies rather than a programmer of them.
Beyond that, these types of sites only work when you have enough members. Have a community of 25 and it's not going to work well. But often your boss/customer might demand it anyway because it's the cool new thing.
Beyond that, it's a hosted service that hasn't defined a revenue model. Most likely that means that at some point in the future, it's going to get worse for you (cost you money, have ads, etc.). So, I wouldn't want to put my site on there without thinking that through. Maybe that doesn't matter to you because your IT department has the money to pay what I'm sure will be reasonable fees. If this is your personal site that you want to be a new community HuffPost, I'd rethink it since you're beholden to someone who has basically said, "we'll make you pay later. In the meantime, just enjoy." While I'm sure the Slinkset people aren't like being in debt to the mob, it's not a position you want to be in with a site that you want to make big.
What would you think of something like this applied to slinkset sites? Anytime a Slinkset site is created this directory could update itself and serve as a way for new people to find these niche communities.
My original prototype is at http://kindling.dashnine.org (I posted it to HN awhile ago)
Nice site by the way!
For something that hasn't cost us anything other than time, the support from the slinkset guys has been amazing btw.