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Ouch, HN showing off its gender bias I guess. Pinterest is also supposed to be popular with dads, so we must be showing off our age bias as well.

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Not this dad. My wife kept trying to get my 14-year old daughter interested, but so far she's not. I think, based on these three data points in my family, that I have pretty conclusive proof it's a not-quite-young-but-of-course-not-old-female demographic.

Pinterest has cornered the market for women who (1) are planning a wedding or (2) have a child under five in their family.

And I don't just mean brides and mothers, but everyone involved with the wedding/baby shower/birthday party planning process: bridesmaids, mothers of the bride, future mother-in-laws, aunts, grandmothers, and godmothers. And of course everyone who's paid to be involved with those events uses pinterest as well: photographers, venues, florists, event planners, designers, etc.

My gripe with pinterest (that none of my friends seem to be bothered by) is how difficult it is to source the information that's posted. Not only does it create an environment for misinformation to spread but it makes it really hard to determine whether you're purchasing from the person responsible for the beautiful photo or if you're being led to some sort of alibaba drop-shipping site.

Your gripe is what kills Pinterest for me. If you want an iota of information not in the recomposssed 6 times jpg you’re SOL. It drives me nuts every time I use it.

And crafters. My wife is on there all the time for crafting ideas.

Maybe. Or, Pinterest is just a narrowly scoped and realistic product while this audience is more interested in pie in the sky ideas.

Is Pinterest really that much different in scope, or at least less "pie in the sky", than Twitter, which regularly makes the HN front page for not just tech/design posts, but even for being down? I won't argue that Pinterest is a more "important" company than Twitter (though I'm extremely biased since I use the latter and not the former). But I'd expect to see more HN submission/discussion from its engineering blog [0], given Pinterest's success at scale.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=https:%2F%2Fmedium.com%2F@Pint...

Blockchain Pintrest for uploaded brains. Putting together a series A if you want in.

Like cabs, room rental, and online catalog shopping?

I'm inclined to agree with you but I realize I get a lot of my tech news on Twitter too. I follow many tech and business reporters, and a lot of tech people in general, and doing a search for "pinterest" from people I follow turns up very little. Though I'm not sure if that's inherent to the network – e.g. it's not a general usecase to share pins across Twitter. Still, I see more on my Twitter timeline about Etsy when it comes to people I follow tweeting about something cool they bought or saw.

I treat Pinterest with the same established suspicion as the Ikea catalogue - a reliable signal to predict unnecessary family expanses.

Popular with dads? Really? I'd love to see some evidence. I actually though Pinterest died off because I haven't heard anything about it in a long time. There were times long ago where I'd search for some project inspiration, but Pinterest image results felt like a cancer that needed to be removed from existence.

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