morirb

Cool!

I'm curious about the "launch platform" part. (I did a "Apply HN" on that). What is your vision on that?

What do you mean with "superuser-level reviews"?

This is exciting:)

thanks:)

"we're starting with the more design-centric industries since they tend to be the ones with weird value/pricing parities." -> do you mean that there are small merchants offering products that are both cheaper and higher quality than big well known merchants? And it therefore makes sense for Nuyolk to bring these better products to consumers?

"I have something close to that in mind", what is that?

thanks!

I agree; 1. a "new stuff section" is super important, 2. measure popularity via engagement (although I'd use upvotes for that), 3. allow users to share via fb/tw/... .

As for the chicken egg problem; I guess focusing on a small industry first would help. Actually, why not make Nyolk focus on sneakers first? There is a community of people that are obsessed with sneakers and they would love such platform. The word would spread quickly in that community. They eventually would become the first core community to contribute to Nuyolk.

I'm excited to see what Nuyolk becomes! We can keep in touch:)

(for readers curious to know what Nyolk is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11441834)

Other feedback on the general idea to offer an alternative to advertisement?:)

1. I'd rather go democratic than "elitist": e.g. it would be nice if a post gets deleted because a majority wants it deleted and not because of moderators. That said, "even more exclusive community that can pin things" is actually nice because it increases the motivation of this "more exclusive community" to contribute.

2. I often ask myself that. Some thoughts;

- Not only can users see the popular stuff of the last few days but also of the last month, 6 months, 3 years, etc... Effectively "smoothing" this "slipping" you describe.

- With tagging, slipping is less a problem; even though a product has slipped in the general ranking it can still be on top in certain tags.

Thanks for the comment, what do you think of the overall idea?

I would use your website but I'm missing a more precise search. Why not a tagging system? Would be nice to be able to look for a "black" "shirt" with "stripes".

Do you guys want to only do this for fashion? This seems applicable to other industries, doesn't it?

I'm doing something similar, see "Apply HN: Alternative to Advertisement" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11441537). I'm excited to see that other people seem to care about that as well.

It would be so cool if things get popular based on their quality and design.

and if a user is looking for fantasy sport websites, then they would lookup the tag "fantasy-sport". The fantasy sport website would publish itself on listing-platform.com under the tag "fantasy-sport".

Thanks for the comment.

With the tagging system: they would look for the "sport" tag.

(Actually it wouldn't be a tag because sport is a "top-level-tag". Instead it would be a category with a dedicated website. So the users would go on sports.listing-platform.com and then be able to select tags like "football", "soccer", etc.)