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We see 1 or 2 of these "Hacker News for X" sites a month. Have any of you succeeded and developed a community beyond the spike of interest you received making t

We see 1 or 2 of these "Hacker News for X" sites a month. Have any of you succeeded and developed a community beyond the spike of interest you received making the HN frontpage?

aba_sababa 13y ago
Datatau isn't doing too bad.
owensmp 13y ago
It's an interesting question. I certainly hope engagement will be consistent and develop into a watering hole for Biotech entrepreneurs from all over. One thing we have in our favor for Biotech Pulse is the baseline community of 19 early stage companies and their teams here at Harlem Biospace. We are hoping since this community already exists in the shared space that this will be a strong seed for the online community to grow from.
jeffpersonified 13y ago
Designer News (news.layervault.com) has been doing quite well. It's been my go-to for design info for a while now.
GigabyteCoin 13y ago
https://cryptanalys.is https://cryptanalys.is is my recently launched HN clone dedicated to cryptocurrencies, cryptography, privacy and security. My original submission was a complete dud without a single upvote ~23 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7339368 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7339368 I went to sleep feeling defeated after 2 months of work and went back to the drawing board in the morning. I've been experimenting with various forms of advertising over the last few weeks since a one markmassie submit this to moderate traction ~19 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7364288 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7364288 Unfortunately I was completely unaware of markmassie's submission (I was under the impression that it was impossible to submit the same URL twice to HN) trending on HN and was only able to defend my site and encourage adoption of it about 14 hours after the submission had made the front page and trickled down to the 3rd or 4th page on HN. So no, I wouldn't say I have "succeeded" yet, but readership and commenting is slowly building: https://cryptanalys.is/newcomments.php https://cryptanalys.is/newcomments.php And we seem to have peaked some interests in india apparently: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/cryptanalys.is http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/cryptanalys.is
- mightybrenden 13y ago
  I've been experimenting with one as well (https://www.plantdietlife.com/ https://www.plantdietlife.com/) I'm getting a lot of interesting from physicians interesting in plant based nutrition. I'm curious where diet's based on plants and biotech will merge. My buddy shared this (https://campaign.soylent.me/soylent-free-your-body https://campaign.soylent.me/soylent-free-your-body) "Soylent is a food substitute intended to supply all of a human body's daily nutritional needs, made from maltodextrin, rice protein, oat flour, canola oil, fish oil, and raw chemical powders." -Wikipedia
atko 13y ago
Spike of interest? Zero upvotes, zero interest :) I made a C# clone of HN/Reddit (well, sort of, still working on it) and it's open source, but I have yet to see any interest whatsoever :) It has been a great learning experience so far since this is my first .net project ever, being a 2nd year CS student in Sweden. The url? Funny you should ask: http://forbidme.com http://forbidme.com (yes, domain name is weird).
harvestmoon 13y ago
Inbound is reasonable and entertaining.
markkat 13y ago
We are going strong on http://hubski.com http://hubski.com.

We see 1 or 2 of these "Hacker News for X" sites a month. Have any of you succeeded and developed a community beyond the spike of interest you received making the HN frontpage?

aba_sababa 13y ago

Datatau isn't doing too bad.

owensmp 13y ago

It's an interesting question. I certainly hope engagement will be consistent and develop into a watering hole for Biotech entrepreneurs from all over. One thing we have in our favor for Biotech Pulse is the baseline community of 19 early stage companies and their teams here at Harlem Biospace. We are hoping since this community already exists in the shared space that this will be a strong seed for the online community to grow from.

jeffpersonified 13y ago

Designer News (news.layervault.com) has been doing quite well. It's been my go-to for design info for a while now.

GigabyteCoin 13y ago

https://cryptanalys.is https://cryptanalys.is is my recently launched HN clone dedicated to cryptocurrencies, cryptography, privacy and security. My original submission was a complete dud without a single upvote ~23 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7339368 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7339368 I went to sleep feeling defeated after 2 months of work and went back to the drawing board in the morning. I've been experimenting with various forms of advertising over the last few weeks since a one markmassie submit this to moderate traction ~19 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7364288 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7364288 Unfortunately I was completely unaware of markmassie's submission (I was under the impression that it was impossible to submit the same URL twice to HN) trending on HN and was only able to defend my site and encourage adoption of it about 14 hours after the submission had made the front page and trickled down to the 3rd or 4th page on HN. So no, I wouldn't say I have "succeeded" yet, but readership and commenting is slowly building: https://cryptanalys.is/newcomments.php https://cryptanalys.is/newcomments.php And we seem to have peaked some interests in india apparently: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/cryptanalys.is http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/cryptanalys.is

mightybrenden 13y ago
I've been experimenting with one as well (https://www.plantdietlife.com/ https://www.plantdietlife.com/) I'm getting a lot of interesting from physicians interesting in plant based nutrition. I'm curious where diet's based on plants and biotech will merge. My buddy shared this (https://campaign.soylent.me/soylent-free-your-body https://campaign.soylent.me/soylent-free-your-body) "Soylent is a food substitute intended to supply all of a human body's daily nutritional needs, made from maltodextrin, rice protein, oat flour, canola oil, fish oil, and raw chemical powders." -Wikipedia

atko 13y ago

Spike of interest? Zero upvotes, zero interest :) I made a C# clone of HN/Reddit (well, sort of, still working on it) and it's open source, but I have yet to see any interest whatsoever :) It has been a great learning experience so far since this is my first .net project ever, being a 2nd year CS student in Sweden. The url? Funny you should ask: http://forbidme.com http://forbidme.com (yes, domain name is weird).

harvestmoon 13y ago

Inbound is reasonable and entertaining.

markkat 13y ago

We are going strong on http://hubski.com http://hubski.com.