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There is something here. Other commenters are comparing to Disqus and Reddit, but I actually think the surface area here is potentially larger. Imagine subredd

by elamje 3y ago

There is something here. Other commenters are comparing to Disqus and Reddit, but I actually think the surface area here is potentially larger. Imagine subreddits for every domain on the web, automatically. r/news.ycombinator.com, r/<insert popular blog url>, etc. Reddit kind of does this today, but only for sites with enough fans ~on reddit~. It's the last 2 words in that sentence that are important. Disqus's surface area is limited by site admins that set it up, Reddits surface area is limited by having a critical mass of reddit users for a particular site. This is sort of different. I don't think browser extension is your best distribution strategy. Largely I would go for a completely open thing closer to reddit r/<insert url> structure, but keep using the browser extension as a way to make interacting with that community a little easier for users. User adoption and critical mass is kind of the main way this is interesting, so you have to find communities online around content that has super fans, but doesn't have forums, etc. already up. Or you have to get those forums and subreddits to move to your thing which is a challenge. Here are a couple of ideas: - YouTubers, when people are watching a YouTube video by a certain YouTuber, have your extension build community around the YouTuber's channel rather than the video (which is the limit of YouTube comments today) - Find blogs with huge audiences, where the blogger only has a premium, paid community. You can be the open community for all of the fans that won't pay for the premium community

edricnguyen 3y ago
Thank you very much for your insightful and helpful feedback. The idea of "r/<insert popular blog url>" is very similar to what we are doing. I want to turn a website into a community with the following format: [https://buidler.chat/](http://buidler.chat/)<blog_url> https://buidler.chat/](http://buidler.chat/)<blog_url> Your idea of connecting a community of popular YouTubers is fantastic! To be honest, we hadn't considered it before. Thank you very much for the excellent advice. We understand that convincing users to install our plugin can be challenging. However, our approach is designed to seamlessly connect users on any website. Rather than convincing them to use our product and keeping them there, we strive to go with the users and become a part of their lives. Furthermore, we plan to extend invitations to website owners to incorporate our plugin onto their website. This will allow for increased exposure to individuals who have yet to install our plugin and promote further growth. We still face several challenges that we must overcome. However, we firmly believe in the community's potential, and we anticipate a future where fans from this community will engage with one another on major websites. Thank you once again for your feedback. If you have any questions or new ideas, please don't hesitate to share them with us.

by elamje 3y ago

edricnguyen 3y ago

Thank you very much for your insightful and helpful feedback. The idea of "r/<insert popular blog url>" is very similar to what we are doing. I want to turn a website into a community with the following format: [https://buidler.chat/](http://buidler.chat/)<blog_url> https://buidler.chat/](http://buidler.chat/)<blog_url> Your idea of connecting a community of popular YouTubers is fantastic! To be honest, we hadn't considered it before. Thank you very much for the excellent advice. We understand that convincing users to install our plugin can be challenging. However, our approach is designed to seamlessly connect users on any website. Rather than convincing them to use our product and keeping them there, we strive to go with the users and become a part of their lives. Furthermore, we plan to extend invitations to website owners to incorporate our plugin onto their website. This will allow for increased exposure to individuals who have yet to install our plugin and promote further growth. We still face several challenges that we must overcome. However, we firmly believe in the community's potential, and we anticipate a future where fans from this community will engage with one another on major websites. Thank you once again for your feedback. If you have any questions or new ideas, please don't hesitate to share them with us.