Ask HN: I want to build a better content discover platform.

6 points·kamilszybalski··5 comments

Tell me what you hate, what you love and if you think i'm crazy.

Appreciate all your feedback on this, it's extremely valuable.

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I love:

- insightful personal stories

- thoughtful reviews and perspectives

- great visualizations of interesting/compelling concepts

I hate:

- Clickbait ("You're never going to believe THIS! Please, don't do this, it's insulting to the reader. Tell us what it's about.")

I wish:

Things were curated more effectively. Think about all the /top and /gilded sections of subreddits. I would like all the best information about all the interesting topics, curated, analysed, interpreted, centralized, maybe in a wiki-ish model.

Cheers.

Thanks for your 0.02, there's a couple gems in there.

I'm interested mainly in tech articles (libraries, software projects) that I might use. Restricting to articles that contain (or link to) python or js code could be very useful for me.

I'm also interested in particular industries and "topics" which could be identified using standard topic modelling techniques (e.g. LDA, which is used by getprismatic)

What I would want is a WAAAY more decentralized platform as opposed to something like Medium or Svtble where its all on their infrastructure and to their site. Something like HN, except where it would be more acceptable to post blog posts (with curation of course)

I've recently been toying with a few ideas and was thinking about building a discovery platform. Would love to co-found or work on one. Feel free to email me - AlexBGillis@gmail.com

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