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I don’t really want to listen to the podcast, but I do seem to recall that Reddit drew heavy inspiration from the delicious popular page. digg was talked about
by joshu 4y ago
I don’t really want to listen to the podcast, but I do seem to recall that Reddit drew heavy inspiration from the delicious popular page. digg was talked about a bunch but much smaller…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1389494 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1389494
- dang 4y agoRelated old comment with links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21245652 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21245652
- hoofhearted 4y agoInteresting note to see that Paul Graham initially hated the name Reddit lol
- sgt 4y agoWhat's your take now, pg? (summon(pg))
- hoofhearted 3y agoI have this theory that every great company gets to change their name once lol.. I could go down a pretty big list of companies that changes names after launching: Ring / Doorbot Amazon / Cadabra Google / Backrub Facebook / The Facebook Coinbase / BitBank Stripe / /dev/payments Doordash / Palo Alto Delivery Uber / Uber Taxi
- jl 4y agoJoshua, Delicious/popular was mentioned a bunch of times in the podcast as a main inspiration. I'll send you a transcript someday if I can arrange it :)
- animal531 4y agoRight, and before Digg people used to hang out on MetaFilter, then Usenet etc. Each was in its own way only a small upgrade over the previous one.
- joshu 3y agoDelicious wasn’t the same kind of thing as digg and meta filter, though, so this doesn’t make that much sense