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Coming soon: A way to find and connect with other website owners

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I like what it's trying to accomplish, but I don't see this as becoming a success.

1. I have no reason to join

2. I will never have a majority of site owners (issue 1 is subordinate to this)

3. Site owners change

4. Who do you really want to get in touch with? The owner? The programmer? Tech support?

5. The barrier to entry stops me.

Personally I'm a bigger fan of humans.txt:

http://humanstxt.org/

Even google uses it: http://www.google.com/humans.txt

It's a 0-friction way to find out who's behind a site, entirely un-obtrusive, requires the requester give up 0 information.

As a hacker, I have no reason to connect with other website owners. I have lots of reasons to connect with professionals who know what they're talking about.

I didn't know about humans.txt. Thanks for pointing that out. I will study it.

From the first look I feel it means to do something different from what I intend to do.

In my answer to bsenftner's question below I have explained what I want to accomplish(don't want to repeat it here and clutter the thread). I wonder what you think.

It's an interesting idea, but needs a filter of some sort. "Web site owners" = slightly more competent bloggers, traditional businesses with a web site, purely web based eCommerce, and finally web "destinations" where the surfer is actually the product to advertisers. And I'm throwing out all the bloggers and media sites that are on hosted platforms because they don't "own" their site.

The idea could be good, but needs some filtering of "who" they mean and after that what do you have other than a niche social network? Feels like an advertising funnel, so it really needs to provide value, otherwise why, why at all?

why, why at all? Good question... my original thought was that it would be a great place to forge partnerships, link exchange programs, meet suppliers, technology providers and infrastructure providers and even end customers in the field for web services.

I find that very difficult to do currently as the data and secure access is scattered all over the place.

I am willing to challenged in this assumption of mine and I agree that I am just starting with tools for only a fraction of that vision and will have to figure out the rest as I go along.

I agree with the need for the filter... I thought about that too.. but I want to start off with the easier definition to begin with just so I can get something off the ground.

Bloggers will be a very important part of the whole thing and is included in my definition of website owners. When the site is fully ready, they will be handled as a special case.

This was thought provoking. Thanks a lot.

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