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Your site looks good, but it's a bit quiet. A huge part of the appeal of HN is the high quality people making high quality contents. It's very hard to launch a site like this from a cold start. HN was able to do it because it was an extension of the YC incubator.
Unfortunately, a lot of folks are going to think "isn't Hacker News the newsboard for AI and robotics?"
There is a not small amount of truth to that. Sometimes writing the code is the easy part.
But I realize what you say is true, after all I have pretty much copied HackerNews to the best of my ability, so I'm assuming users will think to themselves, why not just stick to the original HackerNews?
Either way, welcome to the HN community.
Are you triying to send trafic from the newleter to the new site? The initial comunity of HN were the readers of Paul Graham, so it may be a good starting point.
I did send an email out to my subscribers about the new site this morning. My goal is to have a platform that is entirely focused on AI developments, both technical and more general "news". I also want to expand into robotics because I'm starting to pick that up as a hobby.
No. Sorry for been confusing.
The first hard problem of a agregator is to get an initial commuity. One solution is to have a popular blog or mailing list and try to convince the readers to be the initial comunity. It worked in HN and in Stack Overflow.
The site looks too empty. You should convince a few of your friends to make a few post/comments to make it looks more active.
People forget that the majority of every web community is invisible because they don't post.
I appreciate your feedback. Perhaps it wasn't the smartest idea. Only time will tell.
I like the idea; specialized niche forums are a win for the internet. I do wish it was named something else though - especially given the additional context of robotics.
Good luck on the launch/growth!
Sorry, no real growth-hack or anything that I can give :/ Just trying my best and hustle
I will be posting my own posts on it just because I write a weekday newsletter, and so I am constantly searching for more information. I think there's a chance some people may look at my site, because there are many other people who have AI newsletters who need to source their information from somewhere. I suspect many are like me and keep an eye on HackerNews for interesting posts, as well as various subreddits, and Twitter, and other misc. sites.
Are you going to publish how you made the site?
Content aggregation of niche topics can be hard as many trusted sources also publish non-niche topics.
And untrusted sources can publish gens of wisdom occasionally too.
Now I need to learn how to make the site better and gather more people. I am working on deeply nested comments right now and an RSS feed.