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I think I came up with one way to kickstart a site like that here: https://engineered.at/ https://engineered.at/ It's an HN/Reddit-like front end to essentiall
by dchuk 9y ago
I think I came up with one way to kickstart a site like that here: https://engineered.at/ https://engineered.at/
It's an HN/Reddit-like front end to essentially an RSS aggregator. Granted, traffic is still pretty low and I haven't had time to hack on this a bit, but it does technically solve the chicken and egg problem of needing content for a community that is meant to produce content.
I've always thought you could set something up like this to make it easier to find links to post to more "pure" content sites like Reddit from the onset of the community until traction is found.
- baby 9y agoThat’s not enough. I’ve been posting crypto/security links here https://www.cryptologie.net/links https://www.cryptologie.net/links for 2 years and for almost every day and I've been unable to gain any traction. Of course I don't mind because I'm actually following the news and reading a lot of these links.
- shyn3 9y agoYou are doing good. Now go and post some comments, get other accounts to post comments. Add a summary of the article, maybe use an application that generates an automated summary. Create some long tail words and through those into the comments and auto summary on the page. That should rank you a bit for some words in your group. Right now, Google is thinking you are just providing duplicate content.
- baby 9y ago> Now go and post some comments, get other accounts to post comments Yeah that's the problem, I don't want to spend my time doing that.
- CM30 9y agoWell tough luck. Sometimes you'll have to do stuff you don't want to do, and when it comes to running a community, being part of said community (or at least faking it until one exists) is one of those things.