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I signed up and posted a couple of links but I'm not really convinced why I should use your site. I think I understand the problem you are trying to solve beca
by scottchin 16y ago
I signed up and posted a couple of links but I'm not really convinced why I should use your site. I think I understand the problem you are trying to solve because I use Tumblr and Twitter to do (what I understand to be) the same thing.
Here's my use case in case you're interested. I wanted a place to post links to articles related to startup info that I found interesting. It would be something I could look back on to find old articles, and a way to share links with friends who may have a similar interest. It took me less than 5 minutes to set up the Tumblr blog. And everytime I want to post a link, I open a new browser tab to Tumblr, click on the "post link" (once in a while i post a video) button, paste in the link, type in a title and hit publish. I think it's easy and I'm happy with the process.
In addition I also use Twitter in a similar manner. I only follow around 30 people. And the reason I follow them is that they post interesting links that I want look at. So my only use for Twitter is to share links.
So all that being said, I have two systems that I use solely for sharing links. I don't know if I would want to sign up for a third network that doesn't (seem to) offer much differentiation, which would also require me to build a new social graph.
I guess if you can offer some more differentiation, I might reconsider, because I do like sharing links. If you already offer differentiation, I didn't get that impression from your main web page and you should try to emphasize it more.
- coryl 16y agoHi Scott, thanks a lot for the reply, great points. I think our link spider is a lot better than Tumblrs, and will show better, more accurate posts through a vary of URLs. As for differentiation, we think comments will be a big difference on our site as compared to Tumblr. We plan on using two types of comments, Direct and Global. Direct are comments on your post from friends. Global is an aggregate discussion page across the network for the same URL (if a bunch of people post the same URL, they can discuss in the global page). Any other suggestions? Thanks for your thoughts