Hi all,
I started Siliconverge (http://www.siliconverge.com) - a Digg like social news site for Semiconductor & Hardware industry a few months ago.<p>The site is catering to very niche market. I am doing this in the part-time because I strongly believe that this site will add tremendous value to lives of people from Semiconductor industry. I'am a Chip Design Engineer and feel the pain, and see tremendous value in this service.<p>Semiconductor/Hardware people still visit 10 different news sources on the web to read news - the typical traditional way. And there is no service for this industry, which provides similar experience the way Siliconverge tries to provide.<p>Now, my question is - how do I build the community around this site? As we always know, these services don't add value unless there is a passionate community behind it.<p>All kinds of inputs/suggestions/feedback will be highly appreciated.<p>In general, this question applies to all those people, who want to start such niche news sites using Slinkset/Pligg or so.<p>Creating such sites has become very easy now - but what about building the community, and hence the potential business around it? Any thoughts?<p>Aditya,
Siliconverge.com
I just want to add some more inputs -
1. Remember, Semiconductor industry people still don't get the "Social" aspect on the web.
2. They question "What's in it for me?" for Submitting news aspect.<p>I'm trying my best to convince every single user about "community/Social/WIIFM" aspect, but I would love to hear your thoughts/inputs about how would you create a community in such situation?<p>-Aditya