| Site looks great. This is pretty similar to an idea i had a few years back: http://buyersvote.com/categories It has languished since and never took off, but the pieces were all there: user generated listed, votes, wiki style edits, comments etc. I've had some time to think on why mine never took off and wanted to share a few ideas in case it helps. - critical mass is hard, StackOverflow (my inspiration for it) was able to launch with two massive blog posts from influencers - how to counteract this? either empower your users to create their own "sub-listries" and try to attract influencers - or do the bowling pin strategy http://cdixon.org/2010/08/21/the-bowling-pin-strategy/ - 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 Few other thoughts: - I think your design is better - Is "Articles" the right word here? Esp given your domain would "lists" work better? Hope it helps! |
I was debating between calling them "lists" or "articles", and decided on "articles" because my hope is that over time they will become full-fledged articles (true that my domain name makes that a bit confusing). Paul Graham's article on "the 18 mistakes that kill startups" (http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html) is the type of article I am shooting for with Listry. Where each item of the article has 1 or more in-depth paragraphs of explanation or details.