[peteforde]

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]

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?

[peteforde]

Honestly, the real payoff for this project is the experience of building it! I think that you did a great job.

Either way, welcome to the HN community.

[gazcrisa]

Thank you! And thanks for the feedback.

[peteforde]

I did sign up, and I'll try to post a few things.