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- DerickRhodes0
Hey Andrew,
Thanks for the response. Yeah, you're totally right - it's way too easy to take things too personally when you've been working on something for a long time. I guess it's just a strange feeling to feel psyched to be featured, and then to read the comments, and they're mostly "I hate this" . . . but it's silly for me to think that everyone is going to like it.
We're honestly not thinking much about how to make money with it - we just want to make something that people have fun using.
Thanks for sharing your perspective - I appreciate it.
- Fax_Benson0
I think the main issue people have is that Top <insert number> lists are inherently subjective and arbitrary, and therefore pretty pointless. Why would somebody want to follow somebody else on the basis that they've managed to put 5 things in a particular order?
In the long term you're only going to be as relevant and interesting as the lists people make. Most of the lists I saw were totally useless. It would make sense if there's a cumulative voting rank, so that lists become definitive, rather than merely being one person’s opinion. Unless it does that and I’ve missed it?
- DerickRhodes0
Hey Fax - I think you're right that what makes the site potentially interesting/relevant is the quality of the lists. But it's not simply about making top 10/20 lists . . . people are coming up with ways to use lists to express themselves in lots of ways. Here are a few examples in which there's a specific kind of pleasure in scrolling through different people's version of the same list:
http://listgeeks.com/#!/view/i-l…
http://listgeeks.com/#!/view/thi…
http://listgeeks.com/#!/view/mos…
I think creating/publishing these kinds of lists has a lot in common with Tweeting/Blogging/Facebooking . . . it seems for many people that there's an emotional component.
- I see what you're saying, but those 3 examples are exactly why I think all the guff mightFax_Benson
- obscure the potentially useful features.Fax_Benson
- pauliusuza0
Also this > http://top10.com
- Oh crap - it's not .com it's .co
http://top10.copauliusuza - +100 for top10.coMelanie
- Oh crap - it's not .com it's .co
- 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.
- JerseyRaindog0
Hey, I'm a geek. And I like lists!
I'm in. Seriously.
- 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.
- Melanie0
Deffo like http://top10.co better so far but I'm giving them both a fair shot.
- 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 -