Very nice. At first, I didn't really see the point of it - another voting/wiki type thing, sigh - but the interface is so <i>fast</i> and compelling that it just drew me in.<p>I registered so I could vote on something, decided to see what creating an article was like, and it was so smooth it made me want to start more, and then eventually realize I have been looking for something like this.<p>I started a list of "Coffee shops in Cambridge, MA" because I remembered that I had been looking for just such a list the other day. I figured it's mostly HN users on there now, probably, and a fair amount of us are from here. I'm not positive what types of lists you're wanting, though, so I won't be hurt if you delete it!<p>Feature request: I would love to add some simple custom attribute to each list. For instance, with the coffee shops, it'd be nice if I could define an attribute for that list of "Free wifi?" and then each item could select either yes/no as it's created. An article on vim color themes could define an attribute of "Background?" with options "light, dark, both".<p>At some point in the future, then, you could filter and look at just the items in the list that match an attribute. E.g., I can look at the coffee shops and filter to look at only the ones that give free wifi.<p>Great work!
Are votes really a 1-5 rating? I thought it was bit counterintuitive (I guess in my experience "votes" are typically binary). How about allowing just thumbs up/down?
This is the project I've been working on for the past 6 months. It combines the features of wikis with a voting system that determines the best parts of an article. There's still a lot of improvements I need to make, but I wanted to launch early and get feedback.
Congratulations with your launch! It looks like you've got a nice hybrid between HN/Reddit-style voting and Stackoverflow-topics, - personally haven't seen such a site before. It'll be interesting to see whether you'll succeed building a community around it. Any plan-of-attacks on gaining traction?
Site looks great. This is pretty similar to an idea i had a few years back: <a href="http://buyersvote.com/categories" rel="nofollow">http://buyersvote.com/categories</a><p>It has languished since and never took off, but the pieces were all there: user generated listed, votes, wiki style edits, comments etc.<p>I've had some time to think on why mine never took off and wanted to share a few ideas in case it helps.<p>- critical mass is hard, StackOverflow (my inspiration for it) was able to launch with two massive blog posts from influencers<p>- how to counteract this? either empower your users to create their own "sub-listries" and try to attract influencers<p>- or do the bowling pin strategy <a href="http://cdixon.org/2010/08/21/the-bowling-pin-strategy/" rel="nofollow">http://cdixon.org/2010/08/21/the-bowling-pin-strategy/</a><p>- or do the tripadvisor approach (read Founders At Work for this story) and spend massively to seed content for several years to reach critical mass on your own<p>Few other thoughts:<p>- I think your design is better<p>- Is "Articles" the right word here? Esp given your domain would "lists" work better?<p>Hope it helps!
congrats on launching! why not eat your own dog food and start a [sticky] list for feature requests? i think it'd be a nice way to get early adopters get hooked up.
I tried starting a list of "shops in india that would be of interest to Hackers and Makers": <a href="http://www.listry.com/list/83050/list-of-shops-in-india-that-are-interesting-to-hackers-makers" rel="nofollow">http://www.listry.com/list/83050/list-of-shops-in-india-that...</a> on the lines of "Coffee shops in Cambridge, MA"... And I added two shops that I had painstaking discovered a few months ago for buying a few things I needed.<p>I was a bit annoyed that getting things you want from your own country(minimizes shipping and taxes) is still so hard in the era of google. So I wanted to share it with the world hoping that others would populate the list further and I could benefit from this. But it was voted -2. Now I have no complaints against that... Maybe such a list is unsuitable for this type of site. But I think it may be a smarter idea for you to make it more obvious as to what constitutes a bad list. Why "Coffee shops in Campridge" is kosher and why "Shops interesting for hackers in India" is not.
Prepare some seed content yourself. Just "listphrase" existing similar sites. It will give a bit of realness to new visitor.<p>Cheers and best of luck.
1 little thing -> Your "Browse Popular Articles" and "Contribute to New Articles" buttons are not vertically centered. The white space above them is 6px less than the white space below. It looks like you wanted them to be the same in your css but the #mainbuttons is 65px in height and the buttons are 59px in height.<p>If you change #mainbuttons height to 59px and bump the margins a little bit more to 29 or 30px you get a nicer look I personally think. A little bit more white space separates the buttons from the top header and to me is easier on the eyes.<p>I really like the site thought. There's lots of these but yours is different, the content stands out more than the site, and to me that's what matters.
I like its smoothness and workflow, like others have point out. Enjoy starting w/o forcing account creation as well.<p>After entering my abridged version of stackexchange's public web site checklist (<a href="http://www.listry.com/list/96005/live-app-checklist" rel="nofollow">http://www.listry.com/list/96005/live-app-checklist</a>), I can see 2 features that I like to see:<p>- Allow entering just the "details" part of an article Item. Current workflow restricts articles to be more of a sub-level categorization. For simple lists that the article title already describes the article, there's no reason to require an item title.<p>- Allow option to auto insert list bullets/numbers into text that separated by empty lines.
Nice Site.<p>Feature request: For each list allow users to link to lists in the wild. For Eg there could be a 10 reasons to quit smoking on some magazine. The user may not want to recreate the list, but just provide a bookmark. You could even provide a "listify" bookmarklet. For Eg Paul Graham's list of reasons why startups fail and a lot of startup failure story post mortems could be Supplimentary materials for a list of the same name.<p>The list which begins life as a list of useful bookmarks to external lists about the same topic could over time be deduplicated by the community to create a Master list that would be much more useful than the external lists themselves.
Congrats on the launch. I'm curious how your "popular" tab works.<p>If it is simply sorted by votes with no time-component then your going to have the same "self-fulfilling prophecy" problem that Stack Overflow had when they first launched.
At least at this early stage with little content, the site seems very snappy. Looking at the blog, I'm assuming you're running on Google AppEngine? Can you give us an overview of how the site is implemented?
Congratulations on launching a Beta! The site is visually pleasing and the layout works.<p>I noticed one small detail that is jarring and it should be a simple style fix. The location of content contained in a div or span shifts when you change categories on the "New Articles" tab. You should be able to see what I mean by selecting "New Articles" then watching the Listry icon in the upper left move to the right (or left) after selecting another category from the list.
Congrats on launching. From what I've seen in my brief tour of the site, it's a unique idea.<p>I agree with stingraycharles that it's a nice and unique hybrid b/w Reddit and StackOverflow.<p>Best of luck!
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Great so far! Very minimalistic and easy to navigate.<p>Notice that you're using Google App Engine to send your welcome emails, and I'd love to offer you PostageApp (<a href="http://postageapp.com" rel="nofollow">http://postageapp.com</a>) while you're in beta. We'd be happy to help you out with that. :)<p>Let me know, cheers!
Nice app and congrats for the launch! I'm into list based services but there aren't too many around. One really similar that I came across about an year ago was <a href="http://listiki.com/" rel="nofollow">http://listiki.com/</a> I really like their wiki/fork-style approach.
Congratts! Great idea and implementation! Clean, quick, nice!<p>One design tweak I would do... Have the descriptions of the lists collapsable so the reader can skim the list and only get the full scroll effect if they need.
Small tip: shrink the registration-barrier.<p>1. Add those social login buttons (facebook, twitter)<p>2. Make "e-mail address" the only input field, then mail me a password.<p>3. Delay asking me for a display-name until I try an operation that needs it.
Cool, I had a similar idea a while back, <a href="http://lightsalad.com" rel="nofollow">http://lightsalad.com</a> it never took off, and I abandoned the project.
Good luck
This is a really cool application. How do you intend on keeping out crap article and malicious updates?<p>Either way, this is a nicely designed interface and great idea.
One thing I noticed was that under the 'best text editors' list, Vim shows up multiple times. Would be nice for it to know to combine or something.<p>Pretty!
Do you have any plan to deal with non disjoint items... that would be an interesting problem to solve.
eg, you have the following :<p>emacs 30<p>vim 20<p>vi 15
hey man this is slick, congrats! btw just curiuos, what's your underlying tech stack, your website is lightning fast! (given the fact i live in SE asia where internet quality is crappy)