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Will you clearly indicate “boosted” authors/publishers/pieces?
YC has changed. It's like we're back in the late 90's!
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Happy to bring back the webapp if there’s strong interest!
When it comes to finding product market fit (and providing feedback into if it exists) sometimes it helps to consider whether or not you are in that market.
I am never buying a Labubu but you better believe there is product market fit there.
"I get a lot of value from HN: it's fast, doesn't require an app, curating is done by real people and the comments add a lot. I'd be curious to learn what types of content your product surfaces that's different from HN?"
You're right though, the community/comments add a ton of value and its something we're thinking on.
You're right though, the community/comments add a ton of value and its something we're thinking on.
Try it out: https://www.browserbuddy.com/
Try it out: https://www.browserbuddy.com/
It's not a knock on anything you've done, but if you see a lack of uptake from a certain demographic (>40 yo), that might be one reason why...
We picked "Browser Buddy" to name our surfing penguin logo.
It's a tough balance to get right... you want to be approachable and friendly so that people will try your app. But you don't want to come across as a big purple gorilla or Clippy. I do like the penguin!
I get you have this 'curated' dataset but how much better than a good prompt for ChatGPT do you think this is?
(not intending to be negative, I'm genuinely curious)
To measure that we do better here, we made evaluations based on how real people recommend websites on their blogs/writing/articles. For example, we tend to surface https://every.to/p/invisible-details-of-interaction-design rather than https://userpilot.com/blog/interaction-design-principles/ when searching for advice on getting better at interaction design.
I download the app, open it up.. immediate login wall. Sign in with Apple or Google. No welcome screen, no teaser, no trial feed. Deleted the app.
You guys should be focused on getting as much feedback as possible and all these walls means you are focusing on the wrong things too early.
Also, nit, the headline of your site should be "A For You Page for Reading"
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