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Seems like a site like this will live or die by the curation. Its not clear to me why I would visit your site versus Hacker News since the community here culls
by answerly 18y ago
Seems like a site like this will live or die by the curation. Its not clear to me why I would visit your site versus Hacker News since the community here culls out the startup related posts from the sources you have listed on your site already.
Also, "startups" is a pretty broad topic and there are lots of sites which aggregate startup related content. It seems like you could be more successful by picking some aspect of startups and focusing on aggregating content related to that specific aspect.
As far as video, vator.tv has lots of startup video content. I am not sure about pictures, but sites like slideshare.com have interesting startup related presentations.
- adammichaelc 18y agoThanks for the tips. What do you mean by "curation?"
- answerly 18y agoJust the idea that you could bring a lot of value by only displaying content that is truly related to startups. For example, you are pulling in the straight TechCrunch feed, but in reality only a small percentage of TechCrunch stories are really relevant to startups. One potential way to improve on the sites that inspired your site is by creating some filtering system to only show the relevant stuff. I know Guy Kawasaki has said that AllTop is targeted to folks who don't know how to use feed readers (i.e. non-techies). But an audience for a startup related news is probably already grabbing the feeds for a lot of these sites. So, you could make the user experience better by filtering out some of the "other stuff" either programatically or by hand. Anyway, hope this is helpful.
- adammichaelc 18y agoGood point. Thanks for the feedback.