Listgeeks
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- 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.
- eegrek0
Haven't looked at it, but is it like http://www.makefive.com/
- 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.
- animatedgif0
^ Clicking on those links, the site loads instantly but then I have to wait a good 15 seconds for the content to load using JS.
Crap user experience, I don't see why you can't just send me the 10 lines of text in the initial page load.
- 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.
- DerickRhodes0
Hi, Andrew_D,
I appreciate your feedback, but I also disagree. If you use the interface, you'll see that it's not "been done before" like we're doing it. That's why we did it.
If you want to criticize something that's fine, but you should first make an effort to understand what you're criticizing.
I don't think what we've built would be featured here if we hadn't already impressed some people, but it's cool with me if you're not one of them.
- bjladams0
spent the last little bit looking around. seems well designed and clean. i just cant seem to grasp what it's supposed to do... or why i would want to use it to make lists of random things online. someone had a list of useful websites, that seemed functional - but that was the only one that seemed relevant, to me anyway.
good luck with it all. seems to be growing.
- DerickRhodes0
Thanks for taking the time to check it out, bjladams. I think the experience really depends on your interests, and who you decide to follow. As it grows, I hope we'll find ways help people find the types of lists that might interest them.
- i think you're right. some people could really get into this.bjladams
- pizzafire0
with twitter, people like to follow famous people. needs some celebrity lists.
i've always loved these:
http://www.crailtap.com/c3/featu…- nice site, btwpizzafire
- Yep - we're adding a new interview every week . . . this week was Russell from the UK band Editors: http://tiny.cc/lstgk…DerickRhodes
- Andrew_D0
Derick,
I never said I wasn't impressed, I thought the functionality/design was solid. I was merely explaining why some have reacted like they have.
I also think it's pretty noble that you're coming on here defending your work, but I think you're taking some criticism too seriously. With something like this, you're going to get some love and hate.
You're still making list's, though, yeah? No matter how you do it or share it or follow it, it boils down to list's and Amazon, iTunes, etc. all have variations of listing favourite items. That works cause you have consumers looking for products recommended by other consumers. Maybe they adopt(you sell it to them) what you've done and it evolves that way, I dunno.
Like that paul guy said, if you go b2b, this could evolve into something that could make you some money. You could have a sponsored section with the "top 5 things you love about Sprite" and people vote on the best list and whoever is tops wins a lifetime supply or some bullshit to that effect. (I imagine you've thought of this already)
As it stands, this is a niche and maybe you're filling that void with a good product. It's great that you've worked hard to give those people a platform to share their top 5 "Best Spaceship Captains".
Anyhoo, best of luck in this venture.
- kingsteven0
When checked this out the other day and got really annoyed by some of the badly thought out lists on the homepage... maybe you should 'EC' the featured lists? maybe omit anything that starts with "my favorite" for being too subjective?
- DerickRhodes0
Hmm...it shouldn't be taking nearly that long - I'll check it out.
- utopian0
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