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This is obviously an MVP, but there are some key things that I deem necessary to be the prominent player in this space. You can read more about what I've writte

This is obviously an MVP, but there are some key things that I deem necessary to be the prominent player in this space. You can read more about what I've written about this idea here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1263984 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1263984 The key thing is that if a site's points/badges are left in their own island then they have a fraction of the value than if they were part of a universal system (e.g. Xbox Live's GamerScore). You may claim that this will come in time, but the problem with that is your offering is less than half as compelling without a universal system and such initial traction will be hampered. Furthermore, if you don't plan for a universal system initially you won't have the necessary policies and normalizations in place to make for a 'fair' system. Alongside that if you have everything done through an api it's a bit too onerous for developers. An entire system may take 2 months to code, and you're taking off maybe one month. The goal should take integration down to a couple of days (javascript libraries are quite useful for this). Either way, best of luck! Someone is going to take this concept and run away with it and become rich. You're just as likely as the other entrants so congrats on launching!

ryanelkins 16y ago
I do think the aggregated profile is important, but I don't think a universal reputation system type of score will work. Primarily because reputation is earned within a context. The web is just too big to provide that context. This is a point that is really hammered home in the new O'Reilly book Building Web Reputation Systems. Reputations (which this basically would be) are very powerful within context, but almost meaningless outside of it. It would also have to be quite bureaucratic to control how points are awarded, which I imagine many people would find onerous.
- dwynings 16y ago
  I don't know that I completely agree that the web is too big to provide context. Maybe the vastness of the web suggests that a reputation system is necessary. The fact that people want to display their wealth of knowledge, friends, followers, etc. to THEIR social graph provides enough context in my opinion.
famfam 16y ago
Doing it via javascript but without allowing the system to be gameable is a challenge. Maybe impossible.
dwynings 16y ago
Thanks Omar. There definitely is a tremendous amount of value in a universal system. I have a few ideas for overcoming some of the obvious hurdles (I learned quite a bit of nonobvious solutions about this while I was at Heyzap where we distributed games to 200,000 websites), but I'd love to chat more with you about it if you have the time.
- OmarIsmail 16y ago
  Would love to chat more about this. It's something I've been thinking of for more than a year. My email is omar@productwiki.com

ryanelkins 16y ago

I do think the aggregated profile is important, but I don't think a universal reputation system type of score will work. Primarily because reputation is earned within a context. The web is just too big to provide that context. This is a point that is really hammered home in the new O'Reilly book Building Web Reputation Systems. Reputations (which this basically would be) are very powerful within context, but almost meaningless outside of it. It would also have to be quite bureaucratic to control how points are awarded, which I imagine many people would find onerous.

dwynings 16y ago
I don't know that I completely agree that the web is too big to provide context. Maybe the vastness of the web suggests that a reputation system is necessary. The fact that people want to display their wealth of knowledge, friends, followers, etc. to THEIR social graph provides enough context in my opinion.

famfam 16y ago

Doing it via javascript but without allowing the system to be gameable is a challenge. Maybe impossible.

dwynings 16y ago

Thanks Omar. There definitely is a tremendous amount of value in a universal system. I have a few ideas for overcoming some of the obvious hurdles (I learned quite a bit of nonobvious solutions about this while I was at Heyzap where we distributed games to 200,000 websites), but I'd love to chat more with you about it if you have the time.

OmarIsmail 16y ago
Would love to chat more about this. It's something I've been thinking of for more than a year. My email is omar@productwiki.com