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Hey! I used Typescript and the Next.js framework. Not to ask stupid questions but what do you mean by the second sentence? Reach out to Paul Graham?

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.

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> Reach out to Paul Graham?

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.

It looks like it focuses on AI, so rather they should use OpenAI to generate some traffic.

Okay sounds good. Thanks for the feedback! Yes, I just announced it a couple hours ago to my newsletter subscribers. And this is my first promotional post of it on any web platform. I suspect if I keep at it, it may gain some users - maybe not. But either way I'll chalk it up to a learning experience.

These days it's also not a bad idea to generate as much content as possible first, hope people start lurking, and then gain a community organically.

People forget that the majority of every web community is invisible because they don't post.

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