[aviv]

A lot of good content is buried in archives of good blogs/news sites, and popular aggregators such as Flipboard completely ignore anything but the freshest materials. I worked on FavoritePosts.com a while back, it basically helps you discover older content that's otherwise invisible due to our existing content consumption habits. Maybe I should launch what I have so far.. It's like Prismatic for older stuff.

[someperson]

Yeah do it!

I've been thinking about how those who up-vote stories on HN very carefully have an enormous wealth of interesting content in the "saved stories" section their profiles. It's such a shame that this is value is locked away: Somebody could generate pages and pages of amazingly interesting content based on other people who upvote similar to themselves.

[aviv]

One way I used to "detect" good content was by keeping track of the amount of discussion content items generated (ie. blog comments, Reddit/HN submissions and discussion activity). There are other mechanisms including the social elements similar to how Prismatic works.

I'm currently working on a related startup that we actually applied to YC W13 with, so we'll see what happens next. The current version of FavoritePosts will require a couple of weeks before I can launch it as an MVP.

But thanks guys for the encouragement! I'll start dusting off the codebase to see exactly where I'm at.

[DanBC]

That could be amazing - a user picks 3 other HN users, and gets a weighted list of their saved stories.

[krmmalik]

I would also be interested in something like that. The 37signals article for example is probably just as useful today as it was then. We need an aggregator of timeless articles.

[tucson]

Had the same idea. http://www.hneasy.com/index.php?type=posts&hours=70000

[tspike]

Please do!

[bronxbomber92]

I second!