Interesting idea but the URL is hard to communicate to someone in real life. Also it just looks like the top stories are all from Hacker News. Think about why would someone go to your site rather than the source (HN)? What makes you different?
I think maybe you posted this before I was able to get my "before you review" instructions up.
Unless I hear differently, I'll count this as a "continue to stage 2. Do not develop along these lines any further because I can't see you adding any value to the user"
Correct. I didn't see your post. I do say continue to stage 2.
Listen to what jacquesm said and go more off the beaten path. I check Digg, Reddit and HN occasionally so your site wouldn't be particularly useful to me, but it could be with a little improvement.
Great to see you plugging away at this Daniel, keep it up.
The first stage you seem to have licked, but it would be nice to get a bunch more sources in them (and a bit further from the beaten path), maybe a way for people to suggest sources ?
I'm only about a week into this thing and I'm a sole developer, so apologies if the site looks lame.
Goals for stage 1: Create a set of user-generated content to use as test data for later stages, Gain experience in the proposed architecture/platform, get into a release rhythm
Having said that, to me it looks like an interesting idea for a site: an overview of all user-generated technology aggregation sites.
I could continue for another week or two, adding things like tracking whether the scores were increasing or staying the same, user comments, notifications, more technology feeds, etc. Or I could continue on to stage 2, using this as test data.
What say you? Continue to stage 2 or is there enough interesting material here to warrant exploring for another week or two? If you think there's stuff worth exploring, what specifically would be useful to end users and why?
I'm just curious how this is a startup? This seems like a neat way to aggregate some content, but a "startup" should equate to a business, presumably a potentially profitable one.
i vote for stage 2 - sure, there's interesting material here and it could be pushed further as a domain specific idea, but if that isn't your end game then you should focus on pushing closer to your goal before giving in to distraction.
