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Ask HN: Hacker News for cyber security news. Good idea?
hi all!
I am planning to develop a hacker news like site for cyber security news and for infosec folks to discuss topics. Some of the features I plan to include are:
* submission of news, comments, upvote etc
* discounts and bundles for any cybersec study programs, books etc
* reference documents for things like NIST standard assessments, COBIT audits, GDPR implementation etc
I have not decided whether it should work as an aggregator or like HN rely on users to submit news
What do you guys think? Would you guys like a site like that?
Thanks !
- keiferski 6y agoI think this would likely work better as a newsletter first that (maybe) later expanded into a news site.
- boringdeveloper 6y agoThanks keiferski for this input! I actually thought of having the site send out a newsletter based on the news every day at a certain time. So before a specific time, the site would refresh with the latest news and then sent out the same content in a newsletter. But I was thinking of keeping the newsletter to phase 2. But may be I should explore the newsletter first as the option.
- keiferski 6y agoNewsletters solve the user problem, in that you don’t need a large mass to make the thing work.
- stevekemp 6y agoI think that there's a big difference between "news stories" and low-level exploit details. The audiences would be very different. There are existing sites with a good niche, such as https://0x00sec.org/ https://0x00sec.org/ which might have more direct input though.
- boringdeveloper 6y agoThanks for your feedback! My target audience is InfoSec managers, CISOs, Compliance and Governance folks. They may not be so keen on exploits details. I think they would be more interested in news stories, hacks, incidents, new best practices etc