Listgeeks
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Lists and lists and lists and lists and lists and lists and lists and lists and...
- pressplay0
One reason more on my list of reasons why I despise my generation
- aldebaran0
Is there an underlying point or use for this site? I just don't get why any one would use this.
- reinitialize0
how can i use this for porn?
- decisionman0
I nominate this as the absolute driest startup of 2011
- pauliusuza0
Similar thing launched about a year ago in Athens OpenCoffee called Listiki.
- DerickRhodes0
@aldebaran: We're still just getting started, but we think it's going to be both fun and interesting to draw correlations between things that might not be so obvious. As for how anyone would use this, right now most of the people making lists are using them to communicate, just like they would in Twitter or Facebook updates. Here are a few especially awesome recent lists:
http://lstgks.li/st/WG1v
http://lstgks.li/st/Bz7F
http://tiny.cc/lstgks6@pressplay: What is it you despise, exactly?
- pauliusuza0
@DerickRhodes: good luck with your launch.
However, keep in mind that Listiki did not have any success or market acceptance despite getting seed funding and publicity. It will be very hard to make this project financially viable, especially if your whole business model revives around ads or affiliate sales.
My suggestion - go b2b, enable business use of your product, and do it fast.
- DerickRhodes0
@pauliusuza: Thanks! What we're doing is very different from what they did, from my perspective, but I appreciate the feedback/advice.
- pauliusuza0
@DerickRhodes: One more thing, please add categories for your lists, so I can browse "food and drink" to find all lists with let's say - wine.
- pauliusuza0
Also a bug: why http://listgeeks.com/#!/view/fav… is not in the search results when I search for "wine"
- Adding title to search and prioritizing the results matching title with 2x score would solve the problempauliusuza
- DerickRhodes0
Thanks - we're still playing with the search engine. I'll add that to our bug list.
- pauliusuza0
Are you planning an API?
- DerickRhodes0
Yep. Read/write.
- Cool. I hope it will come out soon.pauliusuza
- We're getting there!DerickRhodes
- pauliusuza0
^ Hint: iphone shopping list app, which would push info to your server and use results for suggesting what to buy. That's b2b. Let me know when your API is out -
- Leigh0
its a bit like
- Fax_Benson0
I think you might have missed a trick here. Calling it listgeeks and populating it with largely pointless, useless lists hides the fact that it could be quite a useful resource. You need some quality control.
- DerickRhodes0
Hi Fax_Benson: Listgeeks is a social network. Just like Twitter, you follow friends/people who make lists you actually want to see. I'm sure if you simply scrolled through a stream of live Tweets you'd probably also say, "Holy shit, this is boring and pointless." It's a new way of communicating. Here's a little intro video - let me know if you'd like an invite: http://www.vimeo.com/listgeeks/i…
- its_only_me0
The kind of site I hate but no doubt some wall street company will try and buy it for a couple of billion at some point in time so good luck them.
- DerickRhodes0
Thank you for stopping by to voice your hate.
- Andrew_D0
Well, what are you looking for when you come here?
I like your site, it's designed well and the functionality is spot on, but you're not exactly defining a "new way of communicating". It's been done before and failed. You've got to come pretty correct around here to impress people.
With that said, best of luck and I hope your hard work makes you a good chunk of money.