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ObamaCTO, fixthisbarack, whitehouse2 -- what to do with this meme?
Full disclosure, I started fixthisbarack.com. The site got probably over 7000 hits the first day after the environment redditors decided to put it on the front page.
Thursday: 6148 (started tracking after reddit decided to put it on the front page, and the server became unresponsive at times)
Friday: 685
Saturday: 195
Sunday: 286
Monday: 261
Tuesday: 622
What is the natural history of these things? Do we know? Are there well understood branch points that have already been studied? A simple logical conclusion might be that something like this belongs on change.gov, but what would it accomplish? Does it carry the weight of the people? How could that be measured?
- brk 18y agoWhat is the value, or barrier to entry of a competitive site? Save for the mildly amusing domain name, I don't think you have anything of value, until you manage to build up an audience and following with some significant measurable stats. No offense, but the "social news with voting" thing is pretty much a templated rollout these days (as your slinkset site would indicate). You're standing on the shoulders of a midget who is standing on the shoulders of a moderately large man. The history of these things, IMO/IME, is that with a fair amount of work, promotion and luck you can turn it into something of moderate value (maybe mid 6 figures if you're lucky). A couple of mentions on reddit for a meme-site does not equal much in the short term. Just my thoughts/opinions, etc. Somebody else might have a different perspective.