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Tell HN: I just launched a reddit clone for financial/economic news

36 points by stanleydrew 17y ago

stanleydrew 17y ago
Please let me know if you have any issues. It's on a bit of a small slice right now, which could change depending on how things go. Also let me know if you find any glaring mentions of reddit.com that I might have missed while skinning. Thanks!
- munctional 17y ago
  There's a reference to "reddits" on the preferences page. Also, I am randomly getting 404s and other server errors when loading the homepage.
bombs 17y ago
Is there any intended difference between this and Markenomics?
jmonegro 17y ago
What can you offer me that any of the many subreddits on the same niche can't?
- stanleydrew 17y ago
  Nothing, except that this is likely to become a hangout for Princeton Economics PhD students given my history and friends. They usually find some pretty interesting stuff and make good comments.
  - mitjak 17y ago
    So, what can you offer me that any of the many subreddits on the same niche can't?
  - jmonegro 17y ago
    That is, in fact, something. I could see how well educated and knowledgeable people would prefer yours to reddit. I would suggest a more neutral color scheme, btw.
    - s3graham 17y ago
      ↓ Have to agree on the colours. The green is too bright to be "money colour" and the cyan "first visit" was jarring.
prakash 17y ago
Since NewMogul, these are the other forums: http://Newsley.com/ http://Newsley.com/ http://www.markenomics.com/ http://www.markenomics.com/ http://www.viewsflow.com/ http://www.viewsflow.com/
- iamelgringo 17y ago
  Excellent! I think it's a great field, and I think that there's room for a bunch of different economic social news sites out there. And, all those different sites tend to have different flavors right now. http://www.viewsflow.com/ http://www.viewsflow.com/ Strikes me as being more from a journalistic sensibility, so the vibe I'm getting from them is that the list of articles that is curated/edited by high reputation people on the site. I think it's an interesting take on the social news site, and it leverages the founders backgrounds in print journalism. I'm interested in seeing what they end up with. http://www.markenomics.com/ http://www.markenomics.com/ Its a HN clone that's devoted to financial and economic news. There's some good stuff posted, but it doesn't seem like there's a great number of people involved on the site. I really wish you guys the best. I loved NewMogul when it was around. I was sad to see it go. http://newsley.com http://newsley.com is my baby, and it's where I'm putting all of my spare attention for the next year or two. Right now, it's a bare bones social news site. After the site and community gets to the point where it "lives" on its own, we're going to be spending a lot more time building different types of recommendation and following systems into the site. My hypothesis is that when a site gets too big and passes dunbar's number, the sense of community and camaraderie on the site slowly dwindles, and trolls start to run rampant. So, if you can segment the community members of a site into smaller groups via recommendations and following, you can sub-communities and sub networks that still are under dunbar's number. That's the theory at least. We need more active users before we can test some of this out, but I'm pretty excited about the prospects. We've been growing at a steady clip the last 3 months. If people are interested, I'd be happy to post our traffic stats.
  - w-ll 17y ago
    is there a git of HNs code?
quizbiz 17y ago
I'm happy with Markenomics for now and I hope others decide the same thing because being split up like this hurts the collective effort.
nazgulnarsil 17y ago
the problem with all of these is the chicken/egg problem. I do not come to hacker news primarily for the articles (many of which show up on my other feeds). the primary value is the intelligent comments I read here.
- mg1313 17y ago
  Tipd.com started with Muhammad Salem as the community builder (a power Digger) so they have now over half a million visitors monthly... Hope your site does the same in one year...
- qeorge 17y ago
  While I agree with you, I also find HN's frontpage to be the most interesting list of links available on a given day.
Slzr 17y ago
does reddit gets to keep the ads revenue? good luck
nimrody 17y ago
Are there any HN-like sites (news aggregators?) for science news? Tried Reddit/r/science but there isn't much traffic there. [I know finance is more sexy these days. Call me old-fashioned but I still believe in basic science]
roundsquare 17y ago
One thing, I think the name is misleading. Money advisor sounds like you give advice about money.

36 points by stanleydrew 17y ago

Please let me know if you have any issues. It's on a bit of a small slice right now, which could change depending on how things go. Also let me know if you find any glaring mentions of reddit.com that I might have missed while skinning. Thanks!

munctional 17y ago
There's a reference to "reddits" on the preferences page. Also, I am randomly getting 404s and other server errors when loading the homepage.

bombs 17y ago

Is there any intended difference between this and Markenomics?

jmonegro 17y ago

What can you offer me that any of the many subreddits on the same niche can't?

stanleydrew 17y ago
Nothing, except that this is likely to become a hangout for Princeton Economics PhD students given my history and friends. They usually find some pretty interesting stuff and make good comments.
- mitjak 17y ago
  So, what can you offer me that any of the many subreddits on the same niche can't?
- jmonegro 17y ago
  That is, in fact, something. I could see how well educated and knowledgeable people would prefer yours to reddit. I would suggest a more neutral color scheme, btw.
  - s3graham 17y ago
    ↓ Have to agree on the colours. The green is too bright to be "money colour" and the cyan "first visit" was jarring.

prakash 17y ago

Since NewMogul, these are the other forums: http://Newsley.com/ http://Newsley.com/ http://www.markenomics.com/ http://www.markenomics.com/ http://www.viewsflow.com/ http://www.viewsflow.com/

iamelgringo 17y ago
Excellent! I think it's a great field, and I think that there's room for a bunch of different economic social news sites out there. And, all those different sites tend to have different flavors right now. http://www.viewsflow.com/ http://www.viewsflow.com/ Strikes me as being more from a journalistic sensibility, so the vibe I'm getting from them is that the list of articles that is curated/edited by high reputation people on the site. I think it's an interesting take on the social news site, and it leverages the founders backgrounds in print journalism. I'm interested in seeing what they end up with. http://www.markenomics.com/ http://www.markenomics.com/ Its a HN clone that's devoted to financial and economic news. There's some good stuff posted, but it doesn't seem like there's a great number of people involved on the site. I really wish you guys the best. I loved NewMogul when it was around. I was sad to see it go. http://newsley.com http://newsley.com is my baby, and it's where I'm putting all of my spare attention for the next year or two. Right now, it's a bare bones social news site. After the site and community gets to the point where it "lives" on its own, we're going to be spending a lot more time building different types of recommendation and following systems into the site. My hypothesis is that when a site gets too big and passes dunbar's number, the sense of community and camaraderie on the site slowly dwindles, and trolls start to run rampant. So, if you can segment the community members of a site into smaller groups via recommendations and following, you can sub-communities and sub networks that still are under dunbar's number. That's the theory at least. We need more active users before we can test some of this out, but I'm pretty excited about the prospects. We've been growing at a steady clip the last 3 months. If people are interested, I'd be happy to post our traffic stats.
- w-ll 17y ago
  is there a git of HNs code?

quizbiz 17y ago

I'm happy with Markenomics for now and I hope others decide the same thing because being split up like this hurts the collective effort.

nazgulnarsil 17y ago

the problem with all of these is the chicken/egg problem. I do not come to hacker news primarily for the articles (many of which show up on my other feeds). the primary value is the intelligent comments I read here.

mg1313 17y ago
Tipd.com started with Muhammad Salem as the community builder (a power Digger) so they have now over half a million visitors monthly... Hope your site does the same in one year...
qeorge 17y ago
While I agree with you, I also find HN's frontpage to be the most interesting list of links available on a given day.

Slzr 17y ago

does reddit gets to keep the ads revenue? good luck

nimrody 17y ago

Are there any HN-like sites (news aggregators?) for science news? Tried Reddit/r/science but there isn't much traffic there. [I know finance is more sexy these days. Call me old-fashioned but I still believe in basic science]

roundsquare 17y ago

One thing, I think the name is misleading. Money advisor sounds like you give advice about money.