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by riantogo 5y ago
During covid lockdown I became interested in the future-of-work and how people are now gravitating towards alternate revenue streams. I wanted to build something in that space. So here is my humble attempt to allow users to grow an online c
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Show HN: Build and monetize your online community(discoflip.com)
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by riantogo 5y ago
That is the romanticized version. The history of man is exploration, expansion and exploitation. Destroying everything nice in its path. We destroyed other species, our own species if they looked different, and finally we have all but destr
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by riantogo 5y ago
For Risk a better way is to apply Strategic Thinking. The difference bring, while you might fully control all parts of your system (bathtub) you can't fully control the market (competitors).
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by riantogo 5y ago
Writing off is the not the issue. The real problem is that it will create an opening for another social network to first fill the vacuum, then pull away users from fb.
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by riantogo 5y ago
I arrive at a village. I see 100 villagers with $1 each. I extract $1 from all, pocket $20, give $80 to one villager. Resume: Made a villager extremely wealthy ($80 value created). Fucked up the whole village.
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by riantogo 6y ago
I have a reverse problem. My platform has multiple forums represented as domain/forumname, each owned by different users. Now because most integrations go off domain, it is impossible for individual forum owners to plug-in 3rd party se
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by riantogo 6y ago
One person forum platform setup: -Inmotion shared hosting (some $10/mo fixed) -PHP (codeigniter framework) with MySQL Not very proud in the age of Cloud, but I can’t deal with all the complexities. Command line scares me (which seems t
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by riantogo 6y ago
+1 Used it for 2 days. Haven’t returned. And honestly the several rooms I visited had talkers who I would rather not listen to.
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by riantogo 6y ago
I'm humbled by the effort required to create good UI that works well everywhere. That is why I decided to use stock bootstrap with minimal changes. The designer tried to customize it (causing flaws on certain screen sizes). I had them
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by riantogo 6y ago
My experience has be exactly the opposite. Never struggled to find a toilet in the US. In Europe, as a tourist, no public toilets and shops display prominent sign that it is for customers only. So often I had to buy $8 coke (served flat wit
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by riantogo 6y ago
Right. What you are saying is that govt is being ineffective in making and enforcing laws. They should maybe focus on fixing that and less on "evil mega corp" narrative to gain cheap political points.
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by riantogo 6y ago
Sure. But it is also the right thing to do. Online privacy laws is best at federal level (not state and county levels).
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by riantogo 6y ago
I think we are both saying the same thing. The problem is creating a weak set of rules (you can pay employees less, you can fire at will, you can circumvent taxes, you can pollute etc.), and then expecting one company to do more when their
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by riantogo 6y ago
Exactly. This where I disagree with the left camp when they paint corporations as evil. No, big companies are not inherently evil. They played by the rules that, you, in congress laid out. It is foolish to expect a profit driven entity to d
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by riantogo 6y ago
Why do you think it is relatively so much cheaper? There has to be some reasonable explanation? Maybe it is because it is not Silicon Valley? Maybe commute to Mountain View or Sunnyvale takes 4hrs off your life each day?
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by riantogo 6y ago
For those outside Silicon Valley why might think, "you could live like a king with that kind of money", here is a potential home you are looking at ($2M, 1200 sqft, 7 rated schools): https://www.redfin.com/CA/
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by riantogo 6y ago
Is it similar to Twitter with additional functionality of subscribing to external RSS feed?
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by riantogo 6y ago
Login is only required to create a channel or post. What actually happened is that #technology channel does not exist (you clicked it from a list of channel names recommended for you to create). The list right below it are the ones that exi
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by riantogo 6y ago
My covid side gig is a modest attempt at starting something: https://discoflip.com
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by riantogo 6y ago
For success with exercising try making it a habit first before you chase any exercise related goals (reps, weight lifted, calories burnt, distance etc.). Get a tracking app to keep track of the days you are showing up (Google calendar app h
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by riantogo 6y ago
Followed, liked, retweeted. I had loved the choreography and I'm glad I now know who was behind it. Please tell Monica that we await here next piece of art.
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by riantogo 6y ago
I’m the maker of https://discoflip.com where anyone can start a quick forum. My skills are on Product side of things. I’m realizing that growing a user base is extremely challenging for me. The project might benefit with someone
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by riantogo 6y ago
What would be the point? Chuck-e-cheese did this many ages ago.
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by riantogo 6y ago
You nailed it. This is exactly the struggle in my head. Currently it is "something for everyone" (product forum, community building, revenue channel etc.). I need to narrow it down before expanding. Love the "batteries-includ
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by riantogo 6y ago
+1 Brilliant. Turns out HN crew is good at this. Better than the template in the article.
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by riantogo 6y ago
I was using the template as-is from the article. Personally I like the brevity of your version much better. If you don't mind, I would love to use it.
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by riantogo 6y ago
That is a good point. I run couple of subreddits/fb-groups and it always felt a bit off that I couldn't monetize my community the same way I could when forums were distributed. However, these platforms monetize my communities for
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by riantogo 6y ago
I'm struggling with this for my side gig. So let me try: For community builders, Who enjoy cultivating engaging forums, https://DiscoFlip.com is a free platform, That provides instant 2 click forum creation. Unlike other p
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by riantogo 6y ago
StumbleUpon, Geocities, IRC... seems like we have collective nostalgia for old web. I want to see forums take off again. So I'm building https://discoflip.com where anyone can create one quickly.

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