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Truemors - just like Reddit, only for rumors and people are spamming it like crazy
- transburgh 19y agoThere are so many errors in the launch of the site. It might rank as one of the worst launches ever.
- awt 19y agoWhat were the errors?
- run4yourlives 19y agoYikes. Well, one can only hope he writes up a postmortem of this launch as a "lessons learned" review.
- SwellJoe 19y agoGuy Kawasaki writes fantastic books, and I hope to meet him one of these days. But, I won't be visiting Truemors again.
- nickb 19y agoKawasaki needs to re-read his own book on starting up... he made a ton on mistakes with this one. PS: The idea itself is quite silly too... voting on rumors?! What is a vote suppose to do? Increase the likelihood of something being true? Problem with rumors is that only few people have the inside knowledge and you don't know who. By allowing those who don't know for sure to vote, those who are not stakeholders, the signal to noise ratio becomes quite low. The best predictor of rumors is a market-based model (full of insiders/stakeholders) or your own network of trusted sources (the traditional journalistic model).
- jamesbritt 19y agoI'd like to think that the real reason for the site has nothing to do with its stated purpose. For example, collecting IP addresses or traffic patterns or vote clustering or word frequencies, I don't know, something. And the collected data is what has the actual value. But really I think it was a case of someone hearing a "cool" neologism ("Dude; it's like, a rumor, but true!") and deciding to base a business plan on it.
- omouse 19y agoWell one cool thing they have is that you can call in and leave a rumour and some fancy voice recognition tech will convert it to text and submit it. Has that been used much by any other websites?
- jamesbritt 19y agoJott has a voice-to-E-mail converter.