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"The main problem with starting an app like this is that it basically doesn't work without having a substantial number of users." I think the traditional advic
by dllthomas 11y ago
"The main problem with starting an app like this is that it basically doesn't work without having a substantial number of users."
I think the traditional advice is "fake it 'til you make it".
Is your concern that you will have too many photos and not enough people rating? Rate them yourselves.
Not enough photos for raters to feel engaged? Send every photo to everyone, tune it down when you can.
- mstipetic 11y agoYes, some of those tactics are being employed, however the number of users is so low it doesn't really matter. To get technical, since this is HN, the photo distribution part is done by a Lua script running inside of redis instance which does just that, distributing images based on current demand and skewed towards recent ones. But if the number of images is small, every image will try to be distributed.