Ask HN: Hacker News for cyber security news. Good idea?

[boringdeveloper]

hi all! I am planning to develop a hacker news like site for cyber security news and for infosec folks to discuss topics. Some of the features I plan to include are: * submission of news, comments, upvote etc * discounts and bundles for any cybersec study programs, books etc * reference documents for things like NIST standard assessments, COBIT audits, GDPR implementation etc

I have not decided whether it should work as an aggregator or like HN rely on users to submit news

What do you guys think? Would you guys like a site like that?

Thanks !

[stevekemp]

I think that there's a big difference between "news stories" and low-level exploit details. The audiences would be very different.

There are existing sites with a good niche, such as https://0x00sec.org/ which might have more direct input though.

[boringdeveloper → stevekemp]

Thanks for your feedback! My target audience is InfoSec managers, CISOs, Compliance and Governance folks. They may not be so keen on exploits details. I think they would be more interested in news stories, hacks, incidents, new best practices etc

[keiferski]

I think this would likely work better as a newsletter first that (maybe) later expanded into a news site.

[boringdeveloper → keiferski]

Thanks keiferski for this input! I actually thought of having the site send out a newsletter based on the news every day at a certain time. So before a specific time, the site would refresh with the latest news and then sent out the same content in a newsletter. But I was thinking of keeping the newsletter to phase 2. But may be I should explore the newsletter first as the option.

[keiferski → boringdeveloper]

Newsletters solve the user problem, in that you don’t need a large mass to make the thing work.