[joshu]

I don’t really want to listen to the podcast, but I do seem to recall that Reddit drew heavy inspiration from the delicious popular page. digg was talked about a bunch but much smaller…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1389494

[dang]

Related old comment with links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21245652

[jl]

Joshua, Delicious/popular was mentioned a bunch of times in the podcast as a main inspiration. I'll send you a transcript someday if I can arrange it :)

[hoofhearted]

Interesting note to see that Paul Graham initially hated the name Reddit lol

[sgt]

What's your take now, pg?

(summon(pg))

[hoofhearted]

I have this theory that every great company gets to change their name once lol.. I could go down a pretty big list of companies that changes names after launching:

Ring / Doorbot

Amazon / Cadabra

Google / Backrub

Facebook / The Facebook

Coinbase / BitBank

Stripe / /dev/payments

Doordash / Palo Alto Delivery

Uber / Uber Taxi

[animal531]

Right, and before Digg people used to hang out on MetaFilter, then Usenet etc. Each was in its own way only a small upgrade over the previous one.

[joshu]

Delicious wasn’t the same kind of thing as digg and meta filter, though, so this doesn’t make that much sense