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I always find that recommendation websites suffer in the long-term because the incentive to just keep adding more stuff (to keep the site not seem stagnant, thu
by tw1010 8y ago
I always find that recommendation websites suffer in the long-term because the incentive to just keep adding more stuff (to keep the site not seem stagnant, thus make people come back) is greater than the incentive to strictly filter only super high quality things. How is this site going to tackle that problem?
- gits1225 8y agoUncompromising focus on people. I don't mind if the site is stagnant.
- eganist 8y agoPlan on taking investors? Because that last sentence might make it a challenge, much as I agree with it.
- pandler 8y agoWhat could investment do for a site like this?
- eganist 8y agoIts a good question. Scale, curation, combating spammed submissions to AJ, etc. might be the biggest things if the site gains momentum, but if the site remains a hobby project indefinitely (which I think is totally fine regardless of popularity), then it's absolutely not needed.
- gits1225 8y agoDoing the right thing makes good money.
- loco5niner 8y agoBrings to mind "The fisherman and the businessman" http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2015/09/04/the-fisherman-and-the-businessman/ http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2015/09/04/the-fisherman-and-the-...
- pixl97 8y agoIf that's true why do externalities exist?
- droidist2 8y agoWell just because p -> q doesn't necessarily mean that ~p -> ~q
- docker_up 8y agoYou have got to be kidding. A list of recommendations is something that is worthy of taking investors?
- tw1010 8y ago"Worthy"? Taking investment is not something special, something that needs to be your one and only life mission before you're allowed to do it. If someone thinks an investment to the site will yield a bigger return back, that's enough. Don't let ideas like that prevent you from taking a go at reaching the potential of your idea.
- __jal 8y agoYou're right, it (if we're talking about VC) isn't something special. And a highly specific, narrow way of bringing something into being that makes no sense a lot of the time. Living in San Francisco, you hear just how narrow this focus gets, with 20-somethings walking down the sidewalk making conversation about how to monetize this public accommodation or that human impulse. It strikes me as an odd mixture of funny and repellent, and at least some of those folks will grow up someday. It does mean a lot of folks are concentrating on a crowded path that smart people will avoid. I mean, sure, if your big idea is in enterprise storage or EV, that's not happening with investment. A recommendation website? If you're not building to flip (which would be stupid anyway), it would be crazy to go begging to build.
- Kagerjay 8y agoI dont use any single recommendation source anymore for this reason. Its always a combination od youtube, amazon recommendations and reviews, reddit, and stackexchange sites.
- lolptdr 8y agoGreat idea. Crowdsourcing is good but averaging out crowdsources of crowdsources is a better way to understand the general sentiment of the population.
- Kagerjay 8y agoYa theres also alternativeto.net, producthunt, wappylzer, slant for software too. Also bpproductansphoto reviews, bestbuy reviews, and googlereviews. Then you can also do SEO analytics on site for domain authority too, that tells you roughly how many people use it vs other software. Or check how old a site is, how old a video is etc
- setr 8y agoI think the problem is that you don’t actually want the general sentiment of the population: it most likely leads to things you’ll accept, but not actually want (ie movies you’re lukewarm on). I think what recsys really should be trying to target is finding the group most similar to your tastes, and then picking based on the outliers of that group. The goal being to find something within your tastes, but far enough from your normal to be interesting Recommending based on star personalities preferences, is I think, a way of approaching this idea: why would you want to know what the average item is? You want the best one.
- gits1225 8y agoThis. I'll be sourcing recommendations from the silent majority of experts as well (https://prog21.dadgum.com/143.html https://prog21.dadgum.com/143.html). Reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17784551 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17784551.