Ask HN: What should a Harry Potter fan build? ***

[alex_g]

Some of you may have heard of Pottermore, which is a site for Harry Potter fans to explore the Harry Potter books, which was released last summer.

In response to the excitement and my interest in HP, I made a forum for Pottermore. It was popular for a while, but the forum has died because Pottermore still hasn't opened the next chapter of the Potter series. I have the forum : forums.pottermorehype.com and the Twitter: @pottermorefans with nearly 10,000 followers.

I really want to build something great that lets me entertain my interest in Harry Potter and Pottermore, and I'd like to Ditch the forums for this new idea.

One thought was to make a Harry Potter trivia site, because my followers enjoy when I host Twitter trivia contests. I'm having a hard time figuring this out. Any suggestions would be great!

[shane-armstrong]

Pottermore hasn't opened the next chapter? Get there first and get your site out. 10,000 followers is more than most startups get.

[alex_g → shane-armstrong]

My site is just a forum for fans, but since my followers area all Harry Potter fans, they aren't as responsive b/c Pottermore has been so inactive and the whole Potter community is slow because of waiting for Pottermore. Once Chamber of Secrets is released on Pottermore, my followers will be crazy active my forum will get pretty active, but I feel I'd rather build something more interesting than a forum. Forums are fun to post on, but they are very difficult to monetize. It's also difficult tot compete with other fansites like Mugglenet because Potter fans would rather go there to share and discuss- they simply have more users, so bigger discussions, and they have already perfected the model for Harry Potter forum discussion.

I want to build a tool or relatively simple site to stay in the Potter fandom while making it something that Potter fans will all want to check out.