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That's it? They lasted 2 months? Did they get bored?
by brandnewlow 16y ago
That's it? They lasted 2 months? Did they get bored?
- dannyr 16y agoI'm curious to know how long they worked on the product before YC.
- brandnewlow 16y agoIn their Reddit AMA I think they said they originally were going to sell a white label Disqus commenting system to newspapers as their product, only to find out that building it would be easy, but selling it would be extremely hard. So they decided to go with the True/Slant/Examiner/Associated Content/Demand Media model of getting a whole bunch of people publishing in one place to pool their collective Google juice. My sense, from comments made here and there is that they hadn't really been working on the site itself all that long when it launched. Some of the features they said were on the way seemed pretty core to me (letting writers sell their work directly, for example).
- ErrantX 16y agoI think this is right; in the early stages (post YC funding) when they were doing a QA mailing list wwith some journalists they were just building the product. (in fairness it appeared very fast and iterated really well from what I saw/heard)
- rokhayakebe 16y agoIt seems like the guys had the product prior to joining YC. it could more than a year in the making.