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by perihelion_zero 664 days ago
I've wanted to see something like this, but as a browser add-on with a crazy amount of connectivity between sites allowing search/discovery. If you do anything "social", it either has to be useful to the 1st user or you have to bribe people onto the network. Building a search/recommendation engine is a good cheat to not have to bribe people to show up.
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Hmm good idea. I am thinking to try and scrape other websites ratings to have a strong recommendation system without any other users required. Do you think that would help?

Definitely struggling with getting the first users.