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Ask HN: Evaluate my startup, PoundWire

2 pointsby criddarabout 14 years ago
I'd appreciate any constructive feedback from the community. I set out to solve a real problem with noisy social news feeds. Essentially by ensuring that every post would include at least one hashtag, it would create both a new way to follow (by hashtag) and a new way to silence social connections (also by hashtag) within the same feed.<p>And even though I know I'm caught in the usual chicken and egg conundrum (need users to get users), the deeper issue is that new visitors don't even sign up to take it for a test spin.<p>So, in order to showcase the platform, I built a self-teaching/self-tagging aggregating service that pulls articles from top blogs to kind of seed the site. Still no takers.<p>So I ask, am I solving a problem that many blog about, but that doesn't really exist? Should I turn off the aggregator, and see what kind of community (if any) arises? Is there a better approach? Or is the only solution to the problem one that lives as an add-on to Twitter's established community?

5 comments

brennanbortzabout 14 years ago
Can you post the url for ease of access? I'm assuming it's just poundwire.com, but you should probably include it in your post.
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badkinsabout 14 years ago
I just read your post here, and your homepage and I still have no idea what this is supposed to do.
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mgkimsalabout 14 years ago
Clickable <a href="http://poundwire.com" rel="nofollow">http://poundwire.com</a>
criddarabout 14 years ago
Ok, advice taken. Thanks a ton! Your advice has been valuable.
freddyabout 14 years ago
Agreed just not clear what it is.
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