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I guess the trick here is how do you make a site that is so much better than a subreddit that anyone is willing to manually click over to your site instead of c
by revicon 6y ago
I guess the trick here is how do you make a site that is so much better than a subreddit that anyone is willing to manually click over to your site instead of consuming the subreddit’s content along with the rest of their reddit feed.
- runawaybottle 6y agoThere are many ways. If you take the pc hardware subreddits for example, providing tools to easily build a pc spec and share it would already make it more useful than Reddit. Goto some of these subreddits, and you’ll see the hoops these people jump through to take part in the community. Definitely need to start solving stuff like this.
- tonny747 6y agoI think you just described https://pcpartpicker.com/ https://pcpartpicker.com/
- runawaybottle 6y agoHow do I do that in about 60 seconds and share it on a Reddit-like site, with the possibility of people recommending alternative parts in a easy way? I guess the point I’m making is if you want to improve on the subreddits, simple stuff like this is low hanging fruit. Edit: I’ll add, pcpartspicker is exactly the kind of hoop I’m talking about. A large amount of those hardware subreddits are built on that tool, so why funnel all the traffic to Reddit at all?
- LoSboccacc 6y agotwo major reasons: reach: get enough upvotes in Reddit and you can attract a lot of people including prominent figures in the space to look at your build friction: people passing by might not want to create a profile just to comment on your build, but if they stumble on the build on a site where they already have registered it's so much more likely for them to speak their mind a mass of users, even from unrelated topics, carry non linear value in social interaction based sites, and so it happens grouping topic together wins over fragmenting over multiple small sites