To start something like HN or Reddit without an existing audience is simple, since this is the kind of service that you can start enjoying even with 10 selected

To start something like HN or Reddit without an existing audience is simple, since this is the kind of service that you can start enjoying even with 10 selected users. So if you are an hacker, just invite a few of your friends and start sharing links, and the community will start growing... Soon or later I want to create some kind of no profit organization to create something very similar to HN but with a more open model (not YC focused and so forth) and with more features that can be interesting to experiment with. For now I don't have time for family and work issues, but hope to find some time in the next months.