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Ask YC: How do you start a social bookmarking site (like HN) w/o an audience?

1 pointsby tpimentalalmost 17 years ago
I've been experimenting with a site like HN, but quickly realized in order for stories to become popular you need a decent amount of people on the site participating. Without users, I seem to have 2 choices: Let everything appear on the home page, or show the very small amount of content that is voted on (or 3, make a bunch of dummy accounts and fake it). Thoughts?

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noodlealmost 17 years ago
4) make admin accounts weigh a lot more and promote the things that you like the most to ensure promoted content.<p>5) get more users<p>6) develop some sort of algorithm to determine popularity that works in conjunction with user voting.
ig1almost 17 years ago
friends ?