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One thing that makes them successful is that they weren't trying to build "something between X and Y". Why would anyone use your community portal instead of jus
by avar 15y ago
One thing that makes them successful is that they weren't trying to build "something between X and Y". Why would anyone use your community portal instead of just creating a subreddit or discussing things on Facebook / Google+ / etc.?
Why would anyone use your site instead of other online discussion forums? Once you can answer that you have a shot at being successful.
- kn0thing 15y agoStarting reddit back in 2005 certainly had disadvantages compared to today (for instance, launching hipmunk in 2010 was a dream for me compared to reddit because there are so many more people online and sharing: twitter didn't exist, facebook was only in colleges, etc etc). It's a lot easier to spread the word about your startup today, but far more competition if your startup happens to be one of those 'social media' websites. Fortunately, I only spent $500 or so to date advertising reddit - and that was on stickers. No billboards, tv spots, magazine ads, newspaper ads, etc -- build something people want and give people excuses to share it.
- zeynalov 15y ago1. They would use it instead of creating a new subreddit, because as I mentioned above it will be in another language and country, there is no such portal. 2. It will have better site architecture/sharing system/notification and commenting system than traditional discussion forums. 3. Building "between" doesn't mean it will be something mutant. Structural like reddit, from community philosophy perspective like HN is a good system, I think.
- kn0thing 15y agoI've always wanted to see reddit do more internationally. I've traveled quite a bit and met plenty of redditors who've shared the desire for a better internationalized site to replace the out-dated forum technology most of their fellow countrymen/women use for essentially the same purpose. We're open-source, btw! So please take the lessons from Steve's brilliant commenting system: http://code.reddit.com http://code.reddit.com
- avar 15y agoThe Google/Facebook/Reddit interfaces are available in dozens of languages. Millions of people who aren't from the U.S. use those platforms, so clearly most Internet users don't find that using sites aimed at multiple nationalities is in any way troublesome. I'm not saying it won't work, I'm just wondering why you're planning on targeting one specific demographic in particular? I remember when nation-specific sites were much more common, now that's increasingly not the case. If you think your architecture / notification system etc. is going to be better you'd be doing yourself a disservice by making it overly narrow. Anyway. I don't mean to be dismissive of your idea. But to me it sounds a lot like "I want to set up a discussion forum for my country". Without any of the details about why your countrymen would sign up, what they're using now to communicate and why they'd be motivated to switch to your platform.
- zeynalov 15y agoTo find out some of pissible "why"s, I started this thread. My question is, why someone would prefer my "Reddit" instead of other sites. What is the secret of reddit's success.