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Just had a look. Unsurprisingly, the demographic of the user base is skewed to IT professionals (at least at this time). Whether that’s a good thing is subjecti

Just had a look. Unsurprisingly, the demographic of the user base is skewed to IT professionals (at least at this time). Whether that’s a good thing is subjective, but I personally want broader perspectives on literature. I think this will be a difficult problem for bookwyrm to overcome.

uncomputation 5y ago
I honestly wonder sometimes if HN is the best place to market a lot of the things that get posted here. A lot of people on HN are developers and I think they post here because it’s _their_ community but in reality it’s actually not a good fit for a lot of products. Maybe some dev/SAAS things, but something like Goodreads? That should be marketed to readers, not developers. The only reason it gets posted here is because the development side is interested (supposedly) in the decentralized technical nature of the product, but that actually matters very little to most people.
- onionisafruit 5y ago
  I don’t see this as marketing to get new users. It’s more showing peers something interesting you found or are working on. Of course they’ll be happy to get some users from hn, but I suspect that isn’t really the goal here.
  - atatatat 5y ago
    That this isn't implicitly clear at minimum says a lot about general shift in tone.
irrational 5y ago
This is a problem with any similar thing that already has a heavily established site. One is my hobbies is boardgames. The longest running site is Board Game Geek (BGG). It’s age shows (this was the front page of the site until very recently https://www.boardgamegeek.com/dashboard https://www.boardgamegeek.com/dashboard), but more modern competitors have had issues trying to get a foot hold. The most recent one is Board Game Atlas. They have tried all kinds of things to lure users, such as contests, but I’m sure the percentage of people using it is a fraction to BGG.
- fsiefken 5y ago
  hi irrational, one of my hobbies too, currently playing hive solo, mint works an warp's edge). I understood the bgg site was overhauled a few years ago to make it more responsive. I suppose it's more modern and looked better on mobile but I liked the old dated interface as well. How does it show it's age and what would you have wanted? I subscribe to a few geeklists and have my favorite game a subforums bookmarked. I rarely go through the homepage but if I do I like the serendipity of it all. So much content. A "digital garden" where the flowers are the games
Krasnol 5y ago
We get this service early and for free. To advertise this to the general public should be the least we can to.
Shorel 5y ago
With less than a thousand users, we can't really say anything about the demographic of the user base. Let it grow for a few months and see.

uncomputation 5y ago

I honestly wonder sometimes if HN is the best place to market a lot of the things that get posted here. A lot of people on HN are developers and I think they post here because it’s _their_ community but in reality it’s actually not a good fit for a lot of products. Maybe some dev/SAAS things, but something like Goodreads? That should be marketed to readers, not developers. The only reason it gets posted here is because the development side is interested (supposedly) in the decentralized technical nature of the product, but that actually matters very little to most people.

onionisafruit 5y ago
I don’t see this as marketing to get new users. It’s more showing peers something interesting you found or are working on. Of course they’ll be happy to get some users from hn, but I suspect that isn’t really the goal here.
- atatatat 5y ago
  That this isn't implicitly clear at minimum says a lot about general shift in tone.

irrational 5y ago

This is a problem with any similar thing that already has a heavily established site. One is my hobbies is boardgames. The longest running site is Board Game Geek (BGG). It’s age shows (this was the front page of the site until very recently https://www.boardgamegeek.com/dashboard https://www.boardgamegeek.com/dashboard), but more modern competitors have had issues trying to get a foot hold. The most recent one is Board Game Atlas. They have tried all kinds of things to lure users, such as contests, but I’m sure the percentage of people using it is a fraction to BGG.

fsiefken 5y ago
hi irrational, one of my hobbies too, currently playing hive solo, mint works an warp's edge). I understood the bgg site was overhauled a few years ago to make it more responsive. I suppose it's more modern and looked better on mobile but I liked the old dated interface as well. How does it show it's age and what would you have wanted? I subscribe to a few geeklists and have my favorite game a subforums bookmarked. I rarely go through the homepage but if I do I like the serendipity of it all. So much content. A "digital garden" where the flowers are the games

Krasnol 5y ago

We get this service early and for free. To advertise this to the general public should be the least we can to.

Shorel 5y ago

With less than a thousand users, we can't really say anything about the demographic of the user base. Let it grow for a few months and see.