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Who leads your list?
by ChuckFrank 15y ago
Who leads your list?
- icefox 15y agoHackerNews :)
- ChuckFrank 15y agoHackerNews is not a creator it's a host. It support my point.
- corin_ 15y agoWell Hacker News doesn't make any revenue and acts as a community project of a company, not a profit-aiming brand.
- mattmanser 15y agoIt also produces 0 content, merely comments. It's an aggregator. We've all got used to the aggregators like google making all the money by convincing everyone content should be free. It was the greatest and long-term wise worst achievement of the dot com boom.
- JeremyBanks 15y ago> It also produces 0 content, merely comments. I wouldn't say those are mutually exclusive.
- maigret 15y agoAnd even for the comments, HN hosts them and doesn't write them. Well, except when PG comments ;)
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- corin_ 15y agoI work for a small company that runs content sites, profitably
- ChuckFrank 15y agoSure there will be small content companies in all mediums, but you can't be a big single media content creator. You need to create other revenue venues over multiple channels. Besides, instead of just telling us, show us ... what site do you work for?
- corin_ 15y agohttp://www.heavenmedia.com http://www.heavenmedia.com - 1.5 million monthly unique readers and 20m page views, employee number in low double digits. you can't be a big single media content creator Why not? I see no reason it can't be scaled up, and we've scaled up by purchasing several websites in the past couple of years (from small to slightly less small). Sure, the bigger you get the harder it is, because there's more work creating the content, and more work monetising it, and more opportunities for making mistakes. But it's certainly doable.