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The success of this website which has rejected all "best practices" for more than a decade should tell you something. No profiles. No awards. No visible karma (
by gizmo 3y ago
The success of this website which has rejected all "best practices" for more than a decade should tell you something. No profiles. No awards. No visible karma (anymore). No post footers. No popups. No ajax. No images. No colors. Only italic and pre for markup, and italic arguably is superfluous.
- inconceivable 3y agobuddy, this website doesn't make money and is funded by a billionaire VC.
- gizmo 3y agoThis site makes an unbelievable amount of money because it helps YC startups attract talent, it promotes YC companies, and most of all, it encourages founders to apply to YC.
- inconceivable 3y agonah, it doesn't make any money.
- codingcodingboy 3y agoIt still provides value
- JohnFen 3y agoWhich is different than making money. I think that none of the top 10 most valuable (to me) websites generate any sort of direct revenue (many, not even indirect) to their owners. But they're immensely valuable.
- gizmo 3y agoOkay it doesn’t make money if you believe ads don’t make money. Because this place is a giant ad for YC.
- ben0x539 3y agoMy view is that the design of this site, targeted at niche users, is not alienating because it is designed by people from the same niche. It's great for that purpose much like niche tools like git or whatever are for people in the right niche, but I don't think you can apply this strategy when designing something that needs to have mass appeal for its business model to work. The success of this website is that it doesn't have to be successful along the same metrics as substack or reddit or tiktok to fulfill its purpose.