Ask YC: How will you build the community for a niche social news site?
The site is catering to very niche market. I am doing this in the part-time because I strongly believe that this site will add tremendous value to lives of people from Semiconductor industry. I'am a Chip Design Engineer and feel the pain, and see tremendous value in this service.
Semiconductor/Hardware people still visit 10 different news sources on the web to read news - the typical traditional way. And there is no service for this industry, which provides similar experience the way Siliconverge tries to provide.
Now, my question is - how do I build the community around this site? As we always know, these services don't add value unless there is a passionate community behind it.
All kinds of inputs/suggestions/feedback will be highly appreciated.
In general, this question applies to all those people, who want to start such niche news sites using Slinkset/Pligg or so.
Creating such sites has become very easy now - but what about building the community, and hence the potential business around it? Any thoughts?
Aditya, Siliconverge.com