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I think your service is lacking "stickiness" Martin. If it's going to be a social news reader, there should be a "social" element to it. Add conversations to th
by hotmind 16y ago
I think your service is lacking "stickiness" Martin. If it's going to be a social news reader, there should be a "social" element to it. Add conversations to the mix, or maybe a retweet/reply feature. Or perhaps a bookmarking functionality. Something that will help me interact with the content and make me want to come back.
Also, I love the channel idea. Make finding, adding and creating channels the central focus of your service. Add more multimedia (video/audio clips etc) and exclusive member channels (subscriptions to these channels might be your business model). The static links look muy boring. Yuk.
If you call it a "channel", make it LOOK and sound like a channel!
TVitter.com: Joost, Twitter and Delicious in a blender. Yeah Baby!
- adbge 16y agoReading your post, it stuck me that being able to follow someone else's RSS feed would actually be very useful. I imagine a scenario where someone provides a "linux-news" channel which is basically a meta-RSS feed filled with interesting Linux articles from around the web. There could even be a "hacker-news" channel where popular stories on HN are listed. After digging around the site, there are a couple of things I noticed: no channel search (not really necessary yet) and the design of the "channels" themselves is not very appealing. I'm imagining a more Twitter-esque design with some kind of box around each entry in a channel with the metadata displayed (retweets and that kind of thing) in a minimal fashion near the border of each. I'd focus on building, first and foremost, a beautiful RSS reader that emphasizes content and then afterwards add a minimal "social features" framework. Don't worry about features, just do a couple things and do them right.