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Very cool, thanks for sharing! I did a somewhat similar analysis a while back [1], and I found that many of the top domains either had a YC affiliation or corre
by foob 9y ago
Very cool, thanks for sharing! I did a somewhat similar analysis a while back [1], and I found that many of the top domains either had a YC affiliation or corresponded to extremely well-known companies or organizations. This made me interested in finding lesser known blogs that also produce high quality content. I tried to identify these by putting a limit on the number of unique users who had submitted content from each domain. My thinking here was that something like the GitHub blog would have submissions from many users, while smaller personal blogs would probably be mostly self-promoted. Using this approach, I was able to turn up some pretty interesting blogs that I had never heard of before.
I think it could really increase the usefulness of HN Domain Leaderboard if you added some additional filtering capabilities. Filtering based on the category would probably be pretty easy because you have that information there already, but perhaps also consider some measure of how broadly promoted each domain is. The time range option is already pretty cool, and I'll bet that a few more options would make it even more fun to play around with.
[1] - https://intoli.com/blog/pareto-optimal-blogs/ https://intoli.com/blog/pareto-optimal-blogs/
- refrigerator 9y agoThanks! Really interesting blog post and cool idea for surfacing small high-quality blogs. I'd been planning to add filtering on categories from the start, but it was meant to be a weekend project so my motivation had started to drop after that, so I just wanted to put it out there. Will add extra filters in the next few days!