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Show HN: Fowndr.com Launched - A community of startup founders

25 pointsby stulogyalmost 13 years ago

8 comments

FreshCodealmost 13 years ago
Whenever I see a new service launched with such a gross misspelling as "fowndr" to "founder", I cringe and place it in my mental "doomed" bin. Wouldn't this service be better off with a longer name or different TLD, e.g. "startupfounders.com" or "founded.co"? Is there any evidence for startup success based on a misspelled name? I don't want to knock the community, but I can't stomach the spelling barrier each and every time I would like to tell a fellow founder about his community. "Just go to founder dot com! What? Oh yeah, that's oh, en, double-u, um. Yeah, and drop the e. Not loading? Nevermind, I'll email you the link tomorrow, or never."
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tommizzlealmost 13 years ago
What problem does this solve that Quora doesn't? Seems like you might have a hard time competing.
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jasonkesteralmost 13 years ago
Cool. Just signed up.<p>What's the tech stack for the site? Seems to be loading discussions quite slowly, which is worrying since it doesn't seem particularly busy at the moment. Might want to work on that, since it's a bit distracting (and distracting is the last thing you want when you're trying to get off the ground.)<p>I hope this takes off. It'd be nice to have a second place to go when the Apple news and Vim/Emacs debates take over the homepage here.
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brackinalmost 13 years ago
I'm not sure why AngelList/Venture Hacks doesn't have this feature. Still very cool stuff.
wiradikusumaalmost 13 years ago
How is it compared to StartupGuild (<a href="http://startupguild.net/" rel="nofollow">http://startupguild.net/</a>)?<p>EDIT: Just opened it, have another question: How is it compared to Ask/Show HN?
callmevladalmost 13 years ago
Trying to access on my iPhone, and instead of a site I get a request to download a "fowndr.com.gz" file.
wolfbecvaralmost 13 years ago
Great to see that Fowndr.com is being opened to public. Keep up the good work Stu!
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prawnalmost 13 years ago
Not too keen on the logo font, but the design of the rest of it is great. Hopefully you can get the comment counts up and take off.