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Just 6,000,000 topics of interest to cover all of history. That's about 1 per 1,000 people on the planet. There are 5.6 million small businesses in the United
by tito 7y ago
Just 6,000,000 topics of interest to cover all of history. That's about 1 per 1,000 people on the planet.
There are 5.6 million small businesses in the United States alone. [1]
Imagine a Wikipedia that had more like 6 trillion articles. I'm enamored with a startup named Golden (https://golden.com https://golden.com) which aims to do just that.
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/257521/number-of-small-businesses-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/257521/number-of-small-b...
- lasagnaphil 7y agoI don’t think that startup will succeed to the same degree as Wikipedia. Making an successful online encyclopedia isn’t a tech problem, it’s more of a community problem. And it’s stupidly hard to maintain such a vibrant community, moreso if for-profit entities are involved. I’ve seen so many cases where the contributors leave the website due to clashes with corporate members (see StackExchange for an example) In a for-profit service where content is made by contributors without any pay, there’s an inherent power imbalance between the contributors and the platform owners, and it’s natural that tensions will arise.
- tito 7y agoBut what if it did succeed?