[atko]

We are in the process of raising first round of funds for http://whoaverse.com and things are starting to get interesting. We have major plans for both enterprise and private use of the platform and when it comes to giving back to the community - we plan to use the same model big players like YouTube and Twitch have for rewarding content creation (actual money).

This will be a fun ride which currently feels like David vs Goliath, but boy is it fun :)

[wingerlang]

This is literally a reddit clone, what's your edge?

[atko]

Bing is a clone of Google and Yahoo is a clone of... DuckDuckGo? Call it what you want, here are just a few distinctions:

- built-in night mode (reddit does not have this)

- responsive design which works great on mobile out of the box (reddit does not have this)

- limited voting (new users need to gain a certain amount of points before they are able to vote without restrictions, reddit does not have this)

- limited number of owned subs (reddit does not have this, one person can and does moderate hundreds of subs)

- youtube-like score bar which graphically shows percentage of upvotes/downvotes (reddit does not have this)

- user profiles which show statistics about user activity, for example, submission distribution and highest-lowest rated submissions (reddit does not have this)

- better privacy, users can delete all data stored about them if they decide to leave and close their account (reddit does not have this, all data is kept and public even after user deletes his account)

- youtube-like revenue sharing model (in development) where community is rewarded with real money (reddit does not have this)

- based in Switzerland, no censorship policy as long as content is legal (reddit is like North Korea when it comes to this, censoring thefappening but leaving sexwithdogs)

- no blatant ad submissions posing as regular posts policy (examples: a photo of a starbucks cup with a cute kitten inside which frequently reaches reddit frontpage or a video titled "look what I filmed with my GoPro")

- ...constant dialog with community and very open to new ideas and improvement

I hope this answers your question.

[wingerlang]

That sounds good. But what's your plan to convince me (and more) to change my daily website? I go to these sites for content, and despite reddit not having the nice features, it does have the content.

Also I think you should go away a bit from the look-like-reddit because most people will probably go there, see yet another reddit clone and dismiss it.