jaredbrown

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   The Road to 1k Users: The Story of How I Grew My Startup(blog.talentopoly.com)

   1 points by jaredbrown 16y ago|0 comments
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   Lean Startups Rule(jaredbrown.me)

   4 points by jaredbrown 16y ago|0 comments
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   The Fun, Passionate, & Useful Scale(jaredbrown.me)

   1 points by jaredbrown 16y ago|0 comments
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   by jaredbrown 16y ago

   I'd be interested in discussing this more. The quick answer is that it's 1st) a way to share what you're reading 2nd) a way to find others to work with. The CV aspect is fairly unique to this sort of site, which is why I think it gets so mu
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   by jaredbrown 16y ago

   Great comment. Currently the site exposes the most popular post at the moment under the section, "What's on Talentopoly" on the landing page. The next step I planned to take was to expose the Posts tab on the landing page. Down the road I e
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   by jaredbrown 16y ago

   Thanks! Brian Hoff did the design.
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   by jaredbrown 16y ago

   Nice job noticing that. This is a high priority on the roadmap. I have some cool compressions and reductions planned for the site's assets.
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   by jaredbrown 16y ago

   Thank you to everyone who has checked out the site. I've gotten to have some interesting discussions in this comment thread. The HackerNews community has yet again lived up to my expectations. I'll try to keep the community up to date on th
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   by jaredbrown 16y ago

   It's not so much about searching out the content as it is about choosing what to post. It's easy to find links today with Twitter, etc. But it's hard to predict the ones that will be popular. I rely on my Twitter favorites and several other
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    by jaredbrown 16y ago

    Good idea. I'll see what I can cook up.
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    by jaredbrown 16y ago

    I'll have to check out hackerbuddy.com, hadn't heard of that site before. I've been a big fan of Heroku so far. There's a reason why others are mimicking their hosting strategy. That said, it stinks when there's downtime or the grid slows d
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    by jaredbrown 16y ago

    For those interested in keeping up with the posts on Talentopoly you can find the RSS feed at http://talentopoly.com/posts/all.rss
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    by jaredbrown 16y ago

    We just had our 700th member sign up! http://talentopoly.com/users/861
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    by jaredbrown 16y ago

    I didn't realize how well the invite-only nature of the site would lend itself to attracting an audience. The hope was to merely keep the quality high by making it invite-only, but I have found it's a great incentive to join and to even has
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    by jaredbrown 16y ago

    I think the simple answer is that it's a community serving the needs of this vertical, which includes things like learning from what others are posting and also finding others to hire and work with. That's where the resumes and profiles com
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    by jaredbrown 16y ago

    100% agree with your comments, thanks for making them - let's hope that SO doesn't do link aggregation anytime soon
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    by jaredbrown 16y ago

    Around 5% post new content daily. This number is steadily going up. But the site has only started to gain traction this month. There's a lot of room for improvement, but I feel like it's off to a good start. ;)
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    by jaredbrown 16y ago

    Forrst is great if you want to see what other designers and developers are working on. Talentopoly is great if you want to see what they're reading. I think there's room for both as I am a Forrst member and still found myself wanting to bui
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    by jaredbrown 16y ago

    Excellent, be sure to request an invite and I'll make sure you get one.
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    by jaredbrown 16y ago

    I do have a few members who share ~5 links per day on the site including myself. In a given day the site receives ~20 new links. Most of this is just now starting to gain momentum as Feb 1st is when the site launched with a new design and a
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    by jaredbrown 16y ago

    By the way, if you want to read the public posts you can find them at http://talentopoly.com/posts
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    by jaredbrown 16y ago

    Almost forgot to mention the most important aspect, the site is invite-only. It's read-only to the public.
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    by jaredbrown 16y ago

    I launched the site in late Oct of last year and it is growing by leaps and bounds. It's built with Ruby on Rails. My hope is to build a community around sharing links strictly related to development and design. No general tech news links o
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    Review my startup(talentopoly.com)

    33 points by jaredbrown 16y ago|41 comments
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    Skittles - Foursquare v2 API Ruby library(tlnt.co)

    1 points by jaredbrown 16y ago|0 comments
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    by jaredbrown 16y ago

    Awesome tagline
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    by jaredbrown 16y ago

    I'm not sure this is descriptive enough.
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    by jaredbrown 16y ago

    I agree, this description makes the site sound like Forrst. It doesn't highlight the focus on professionals sharing links to things that they're reading.
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    by jaredbrown 16y ago

    I like the gist of these two suggestions. Though they seem a bit salesman like. Like something you might see on a product package. Maybe that's OK though. What do others think?
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    by jaredbrown 16y ago

    Thanks for the suggestion @diiq! I like your idea of abstracting away the methods to get to the heart of the value for the end user. I'd be interested to hear what others think about this.