Does it make business sense to create a HN type site for a vertical market?
Is there a business opportunity for doing similar HN type news site?
2. use Amazon turk to seed your site.
3. start advertising on adwords or maybe bing in the part of the world with the cheapest per click.
4. see if you get returning users come to back using google analytics.
5. add ads and see if your returning user number stays up.
6. roll it out to the rest of the world.