[HN Gopher] Show HN: I built a Hacker News inspired newsboard fo...
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Show HN: I built a Hacker News inspired newsboard for AI and
robotics
Hey my name is Crisa and this is my first post here on HN. I love
this site and it inspired me to build a clone of it for my
newsletter. Instead of having a boring landing page, I hope to
gather articles, blogs, interesting projects on my own platform. I
would appreciate any feedback, good or bad so that I can improve
the site. Email: gazcrisa (at) gmail (dot) com
Author : gazcrisa
Score : 42 points
Date : 2023-11-11 14:47 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.gptroad.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.gptroad.com)
| gus_massa wrote:
| Which language did you use?
|
| Are you triying to send trafic from the newleter to the new site?
| The initial comunity of HN were the readers of Paul Graham, so it
| may be a good starting point.
| gazcrisa wrote:
| Hey! I used Typescript and the Next.js framework. Not to ask
| stupid questions but what do you mean by the second sentence?
| Reach out to Paul Graham?
|
| I did send an email out to my subscribers about the new site
| this morning. My goal is to have a platform that is entirely
| focused on AI developments, both technical and more general
| "news". I also want to expand into robotics because I'm
| starting to pick that up as a hobby.
| gus_massa wrote:
| > _Reach out to Paul Graham?_
|
| No. Sorry for been confusing.
|
| The first hard problem of a agregator is to get an initial
| commuity. One solution is to have a popular blog or mailing
| list and try to convince the readers to be the initial
| comunity. It worked in HN and in Stack Overflow.
|
| The site looks too empty. You should convince a few of your
| friends to make a few post/comments to make it looks more
| active.
| krapp wrote:
| It looks like it focuses on AI, so rather they should use
| OpenAI to generate some traffic.
| gazcrisa wrote:
| Okay sounds good. Thanks for the feedback! Yes, I just
| announced it a couple hours ago to my newsletter
| subscribers. And this is my first promotional post of it on
| any web platform. I suspect if I keep at it, it may gain
| some users - maybe not. But either way I'll chalk it up to
| a learning experience.
| RIMR wrote:
| These days it's also not a bad idea to generate as much
| content as possible first, hope people start lurking, and
| then gain a community organically.
|
| People forget that the majority of every web community is
| invisible because they don't post.
| RIMR wrote:
| Any reason you named it after Generative Pre-trained Transformer
| specifically? Are you betting on OpenAI turning "GPT" into the
| next "Google" and getting ahead of the ubiquitous branding with
| your own site? I would be wary of using something so specific for
| a web site I would hope to have long-term relevance - it seems
| risky to brand yourself with another company's brand...
| gazcrisa wrote:
| I created the name for my newsletter when I was at a classic
| car show ("The Ice") in St. Moritz earlier this year. And
| shortly after that I started the weekday newsletter. Originally
| this domain just led to a static website that had a single
| input field where users could subscribe. But I wanted to make
| the landing page more interactive because I'm trying to build a
| community.
|
| I appreciate your feedback. Perhaps it wasn't the smartest
| idea. Only time will tell.
| anonzzzies wrote:
| I don't like the X (left of the 'new'), but that's very personal.
| An about with the X link sure but now it's a snappy site indeed
| like Hn with my fat finger clicking to X too many times and
| that's not good for retention of this one user anyway.
| gazcrisa wrote:
| Thanks for this feedback! I will remove it or place it in the
| contact page. You're right that was sort of a dumb move on my
| part.
| gazcrisa wrote:
| I ended up following your suggestion and removed it from the
| navbar. Thanks again, looks cleaner.
| romseb wrote:
| emergentmind.com was presented here on HN, too, which had a
| similar concept in the beginning:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35356928
| gazcrisa wrote:
| I just checkout emergentminds, and subsequently bookmarked it.
| I like this guys UI/UX and concept. Thanks for sharing.
| peteforde wrote:
| Hi Crisa!
|
| Your site looks good, but it's a bit quiet. A huge part of the
| appeal of HN is the high quality people making high quality
| contents. It's very hard to launch a site like this from a cold
| start. HN was able to do it because it was an extension of the YC
| incubator.
|
| Unfortunately, a lot of folks are going to think "isn't Hacker
| News the newsboard for AI and robotics?"
|
| There is a not small amount of truth to that. Sometimes writing
| the code is the easy part.
| gazcrisa wrote:
| Yeah I agree with you. But I have to start somewhere. I thought
| I would launch this site and learn everything I can from it.
| Including how to grow it organically. Even if its a failure, I
| will still know a little more than I did before.
|
| But I realize what you say is true, after all I have pretty
| much copied HackerNews to the best of my ability, so I'm
| assuming users will think to themselves, why not just stick to
| the original HackerNews?
| indigo0086 wrote:
| Is there an rss feed?
| RecycledEle wrote:
| Looks interesting. I will spend time there.
| l1am0 wrote:
| Build something similarity but more focused on the deep-tech and
| scientific part of ML & AI: https://news.aiapipro.com/
| hlfshell wrote:
| I posted some content there; I'll hit back regularly for a few
| weeks to see how it grows.
|
| I like the idea; specialized niche forums are a win for the
| internet. I do wish it was named something else though -
| especially given the additional context of robotics.
|
| Good luck on the launch/growth!
| blotato wrote:
| How are you populating the content? How will you plan to
| stimulate discussion?
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