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Is there a list of Hacker News clones?
I've heard that the source code is available online. I'm not a programmer, I'm an artist. I just have a insatiable interest in what the entrepreneurial hacker community is up to.
My favorite twitterfeed is @newsycombinator (by a longshot, and its a bot!), and I want to see if a similar community could be created for art.
So my thought was: is the hacker news format successful for other communities? Since the source is available, what have other people made with it?
- dholowiski 15y agoHacker News works for programmers because programmers work in text and Hacker News is pure text. I don't think it would work for artists, I think you need something much more visual.
- texjer 15y agoText is still the best way of discussing ideas, even among artists. My concern is that a similar service won't get any where near the critical mass in terms of its user-base... which may be because we're more visual ;)
- dholowiski 15y agoHm, what about a subreddit? It's a bit more visual, and comes with (at least the potential for) a built in audience.
- texjer 15y agoBrilliant idea, I've never been very far below the surface of Reddit. I'm a big fan of the @newsycombinator twitter account for mobile reading -- do you know if there's a way of making something similar for the reddit subgroup?
- myearwood 15y agoI can build a twitter bot for you based on your subreddit . Email me . my email is in my profile .
- texjer 15y agoI found a few: http://www.uberlook.com http://www.uberlook.com for web design and graphics. http://bitlynews.com/ http://bitlynews.com/ looks like its for trashy news. And here's some defunct ones that were mentioned: markenomics newsmogul
- jnazario 15y agoin terms of tools that may power some of the clones out there, in looking around i see this one: https://github.com/antirez/lamernews https://github.com/antirez/lamernews which powers a couple of sites. this one's demo site seems down: https://github.com/jaekwon/YCatalyst https://github.com/jaekwon/YCatalyst not entirely sure what sites it powers. these may help you find some of the more community-specific clones out there.
- vertr 15y agohttp://lamernews.com/ http://lamernews.com/
- genieyclo 15y agoThe most prominent I know of are quant.ly and forlue.com There was also nickb's New Mogul, but that's dead. There was also another education HN clone by the person behind BrainRacer, but that's also dead.
- texjer 15y agoDo you know why they die out so quickly? Is it just because they didn't generate enough interest? It doesn't seem like it'd be costly or time-intensive to maintain.
- genieyclo 15y agoWell in New Mogul's case, nickb has been gone for a long time, and has basically vanished. The domain expired a while ago and he stopped paying the bills when he vanished. BrainRacer's edu news site was shut down due to a lack of traction mainly, but it would probably be best to actually ask the founder as to why exactly. Fwiw, I also ran a short-lived HN clone for a few months (also for education news) but killed it; mainly because of a lack of traction, and I didn't care too much to keep it up. Only about 15 registered users were on it, and only 4 active submitters, including myself.
- texjer 15y agoYeah, I'm afraid to put a ton of work into learning how to do this if it's just going to fail when I don't get that critical mass of users.
- genieyclo 15y agoWell, it's very simple to actually run a site running on news.arc The guide here http://arclanguage.org/install http://arclanguage.org/install and the how-to-run-news file you extract make it simple to have it up and running in under a couple of minutes. It's just a question of whether you want to run it. I just did it to try out arc and see how HN ran in the back, but it got expensive to run it in aws all the time with no actual users or tangible benefit.
- adrianwaj 15y agohttp://arclanguage.org/forum http://arclanguage.org/forum
- texjer 15y agoI think I should correct myself -- when I say that I want to create a clone news community "for art", I really meant "for artists". On hacker news, you don't see a lot of articles called "Look at this awesome new app!" -- instead you see stuff about the guys who made this "awesome app" and all the successes and failures that they've overcome. As an artist, there comes a time where you don't want to look at other people's "awesome new art". You want to read about what drives them, or how they got started (and in the process learn about their awesome new art). I want to read about what's going on in the art market, and what people are predicting for the future of art. I want to read articles from the curator's perspective, from the collectors' perspective, the viewer's perspective. I think the best way to get this is a non-visual system user-driven aggregation system like HN. Y'all have an awesome community of smart people submitting compelling articles... I'm simply jealous.