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Show HN: Coinspotting - A Hacker News For Bitcoins and Other Cryptocurrencies
- VMG 13y agoGreat idea! Some request * add an API (apps, mobile browsing) * integrate tipping (upvote = tip) * add signup fee to limit spam
- loceng 13y agoNot sure if upvote = tips is a fantastic idea or a way for trolls and dramatic people to make a living.
- SectioAurea 13y agoTalk about a "knowledge economy"!
- krapp 13y agoInstead of paying trolls, monetizing trolls might be a good idea. You could have people buy karma, buy mod rights, buy out other people's mod rights, etc. Of course posting and downvoting would have a karma cost.
- datacog 13y ago> add signup fee to limit spam - this assumes that there would flood of users on this site and a chunk of them will actually pay for it. Will you use HN if there is a fee? Instead, why not just write an algorithm to limit spam Or a 'report spam' button?
- sciguy77 13y agoWhy is this better than the Bitcoin Reddit Page?
- TylerE 13y agoYou serious? Getting stabbed IRL is less bad than /r/bitcoin. I'm not sure if the memes or continual circlejerking are worse.
- jaredsohn 13y agoWhy is this better than /r/bitcoinserious, /r/bitcoinmarkets, or creating a new subreddit for bitcoin?
- TylerE 13y agoWell, anything that might result in fewer BTC posts in HN is fine by me, for one...
- SectioAurea 13y agoBecause of reddit's management policies and ownership by mainstream media. Not to mention the total control of Bitcoin-related forum threads there by anointed moderators who are also pump and dump propaganda masters.
- NoahTheDuke 13y agoThat is also a potential problem with an HN spin-off not being run by the same people.
- SectioAurea 13y agoCorrect, spin-off site operators need to be trusted not to be P&D moles. However, mystery odds beat certain odds of P&D message control (as seen in Reddit).
- Kiro 13y agoBecause reddit sucks. There, I said it.
- verroq 13y ago
- crassus 13y agoCommunities are made of people. Software alone is only half the story. The problem with reddit is redditors.
- jere 13y agoOn the same day, we get a filter that is by default HN without Bitcoin and another site that is HN only about Bitcoin. It's like we're approaching some sort of binary tree data structure where the leaves are HN clones with their own indiosyncratic topic configurations.
- derefr 13y agoThe two are, of course, motivated by the same plea: for HN to be only for discourse about technology/hacking/building/entrepreneur-ing itself, and to leave the discussion of the politics surrounding it to somewhere else. I mean, we all want to discuss techpolitik sometimes... but generally not at the same time we're reading about new tech. HN might be well-served doing something like MetaFilter's "blue/grey" split, but instead of just a content/meta division, a "hacks/sociopolitical-implications-of-hacks" division. HN is already a community, and it'd be nice if the account names and karma stayed synchronized.
- krapp 13y agoThe community has become more complex than the structure of Hacker News allows for.
- andrewljohnson 13y agoI shall call it a subreddit.
- infruset 13y agoQuick, someone write MetaNews: A hacker news for "A hacker news for X" websites!
- lowglow 13y agoThat's reddit, really.
- krapp 13y agoIronically, there is already a HN subreddit. But it's join-by-approval only and there's nothing there.
- macNchz 13y agoThere's also http://www.reddit.com/r/hackerjerk http://www.reddit.com/r/hackerjerk
- vezzy-fnord 13y agoWhich is dead. Rather, most HN satire currently goes on at http://www.reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk http://www.reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk
- Semaphor 13y agoI don't think so. From my understanding he is talking about a HN clone that only allows posts about new HN clones.
- infruset 13y agoYes, that's what I meant. And this would beg for a Meta version of itself, although I'm not sure what that could be..
- networked 13y agoUntil someone does you can use the following HNSearch queries: [1], [2] and [3] (roughly best to wrost). Note that you'll get HN apps along with HN clones. [1] https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%22hacker+news+for%22&sortby=score+desc https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%22hac... [2] https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=show+%22hacker+news+for%22&sortby=create_ts+desc&start=0 https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=show+%... [3] https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%22show++hn%22+%22hn+for%22&sortby=score+desc&start=0 https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%22sho... Edit: [2] finds this 'Show HN: Hacker News for "Hacker News for 'X'"': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5436841 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5436841. Edit 2: Improved the search queries.
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- al2o3cr 13y agoWait, I thought this was called "the HN front page". /snark
- olalonde 13y agoI guess the name is a reference to Trainsportting? Great domain name in any case.
- javert 13y agoTo be honest, there is a need for something much more filtered than bitcointalk.org. That used to be /r/bitcoin, but it really sucks now. My question for the coinspotting people: How are you going to maintain high quality? If you don't have any plan, it will probably be filled with crap and eventually die.
- TrainedMonkey 13y agoOk, can we stop now? They reason I prefer HN instead of say Reddit is precisely because all the news are in one place. The new trend "Hacker News for X" basically means hey guys let's make Reddit, without all the good stuff.
- dmix 13y ago> The new trend "Hacker News for X" New trend? This has been happening continuously for about 5 years now. I'm just amazed people keep upvoting it, despite the fact these sites always die.
- TazeTSchnitzel 13y agoBut at least with Reddit you can subscribe to the subreddits you like. With extra "HNs", you have to visit each individually.
- tuananh 13y agoexactly!!! making sites like this is kind of equivalent to news.ycombinator.com/r/bitcoin
- pacohn 13y agoHacker News + tags: http://hubski.com/tag?id=bitcoin http://hubski.com/tag?id=bitcoin
- _nato_ 13y ago_love_ the domain name!
- applecore 13y agoChange the header color to a nice yellow "coin" color, like #F9BA00, or the official Bitcoin color, #FF9933.
- Casseres 13y agoAgreed. Also, the favicon is pretty disappointing. I do look forward to keeping an eye on it though. I hope it takes off. Thanks for sharing.
- unreal37 13y agoLove it.
- pearjuice 13y agoDo these hacker news clones truly run on top of that LISP legacy stuff? Or are they rewritten?
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- ShaneCurran 13y agoI made something similar a couple of weeks ago: http://www.bitcoinfyi.com http://www.bitcoinfyi.com Although it doesn't have quite as much traction as yours :P
- pmcpinto 13y agoThis is an interesting debate. During the last weeks I've been working in a concept like this, but is not ready yet. I'm a big fan of Hacker News, and I'm trying to create something that isn't an exact copy of HN, so if someone is interested feel free to sign up to the "The Currency" mailing list in http://thecurrency.io/ http://thecurrency.io/ or send me an e-mail to hi@thecurrency.io. I count to have some news in the next weeks. PS: and I also appreciate to have some feedback about the landing page: brand, value proposition, etc. Thanks.
- bitmania 13y agoAwsome work, Recently I heard about Cryptocurrencylive (www.cryptocurrencylive.com) too. We'll have to wait and see who makes the best news.