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Great stuff, I think it's a solid niche. Won't it get tough for you eventually to continually source new products though? I would definitely explore a Pintere
by ajhit406 15y ago
Great stuff, I think it's a solid niche.
Won't it get tough for you eventually to continually source new products though? I would definitely explore a Pinterest / TheFancy crowdsourced curation model. Even if you only let in an exclusive set of curators...maybe you require they have > 10000 HN points or something...
We've built a bookmarklet for our product and it's great for letting people source content from around the web for you.
Anyways, kudos and thanks for the intro to StumbleUpon Paid Discovery, I plan on checking it out right now.
- coderdude 15y agoIt may become too much for me but that'll be a problem I hope to have. I'm planning on adding user accounts so user submissions isn't much of a stretch from there. I think keeping up with price changes and availability is the only real growing pain.
- ajhit406 15y agoYeah, I'm just saying if you get into the hardcore community, you can probably identify people who would be happy to curate the list for you, even if just to have their names be the chosen few on an about page. Just build them a bookmarklet tool, or give them admin auth to the creation page. I think the cool thing that you have going for you is the concentration of cool shit you've found. You definitely want to keep products somewhat scarce so that they're still compelling once you've discovered them for users. There's probably an efficient number here...maybe people only expect 1 new product a day / every 2 days. Your challenge will become hitting enough niche sites to find the coolest stuff, but you dont want too much crap so I think opening it up publicly might be a mistake.