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Ask HN: What do you want out of the next big social utility?
Hi, I am a bit over a year into developing 2 different sites I feel (hope) will fill in some gaps not covered by facebook/twitter/reddit/HN/craigslist and will make for a great way to communicate with each other. Now I'm looking for some input and would like to know:
What features do you think are missing from the big sites of today? How could features of one be combined with features of another to make it uber? What features are essential to have in the next great social utility?
- tehwebguy 14y agoI'm always interested in knowing exactly how posts and articles spread and eventually reach aggregators like HN. Maybe that's been done to death but some sort of timeline showing exactly how an article popped would be cool.
- orangethirty 14y agoYou mean having a localized crawler going through a set collection of pages, then updating a field on a server whenever some new content is created, and then finally creating a timeline of where the URL of the new content appears by comparing when the different localized crawlers bumped into it?
- proksoup 14y agoAn interface like pulse and flipboard. An architecture like tent. And a monetization strategy like app.net.
- codegeek 14y agoI personally would like a "real time" social utility (website/app whatever) that lets me directly interact with experts in particular areas including accountants, plumbers, mechanics and being able to get simple questions answered in real time. I know there are websites like ask.com etc. but not good enough for me. Once I have an answer or response, it could be viewable or sharable by others who are looking for similar stuff.
- lsiebert 14y agoincreased relevance to what I'm doing. Like Foursquare shows me tips from friends, or google shows me google + posts related to my search, but better somehow.