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Ask HN: Request for Articles?
Recently quite a lot of people on HN seem to be complaining about they're seeing the same old topics get rehashed and the lack of genuinely new content.
So I'd like to propose we make this a "Request for articles" so people can request articles on particular topics and encourage people who have knowledge in those areas to write about them.
So what topics would you love to see more written on ?
(some examples: landing pages, how to approach VCs, failure stories, how to design effective adverts, how to estimate market size)
- raquo 16y agoThe business side of startups e.g. user acquisition is imho not covered enough on HN.
- rmah 16y agoOtherwise known as "marketing", "promotions" and "sales". Words that too many here seem to consider dirty. I'm not really sure why. They require creativity and a willingness to take risks in the face of uncertainty. I wholeheartedly support the call for more business-oriented articles.
- raquo 16y agoSurely it's just my terminology obsession, but I prefer the term user acquisition because that is actually the goal of your marketing. For example, sending your app/game to review blogs is a standard marketing practice, but you can't rely on it to get users. You need more deterministic stuff like SEO, content marketing, etc.
- il 16y agoMaybe I'm being pedantic, but real marketing is user acquisition. Contacting blogs is PR and it has very little to do with marketing(maybe with the exception of positioning). If your marketing strategy is to contact blogs and tweet, you don't have a marketing strategy.
- revorad 16y agoMore crazy ideas and apps. Less cynicism and punditry. More hardware hacks like - http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/12/save_sensor_data_to_google_spreadsh.html http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/12/save_sensor_data_to...
- 3dFlatLander 16y agoI'd like to see more articles relating to good coding practice using PHP. I know it's got a bad rep, but it's a good tool for people who know how to use it well. That said, most tutorials and code examples out there are just terrible--ugly code, and not secure. There are programmers who write great code, but it seems they're not the group writing about it.
- iuguy 16y agoIs http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2015794 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2015794 along the lines of what you're looking for?
- clojurerocks 16y agoGood idea. But can someone please add an easier way to navigate this site? I mean everything is all over the place. And really good things get pushed to pages that nobody probably even reads.
- zone2 16y agocreating llc's and some legal info.
- iworkforthem 16y agoI definitely hope to see more "case studies" or rise to glory stories of startup much like airbnb. It really help to keep me grounded and focus on sticking with my gigs. And not give up.