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Comment by alexdong | Hacker News Reader

Thanks folks. Trunk.ly was launched 33 days ago right here on HN. Here is the original link when we announced that: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014567

There are still tons of works need to be done. Our viral co-efficient is too low, new user orientation process is horribly missing. But it's been a great ride so far.

we're currently seeking angel investment - if you like what we've achieved so far and are interested in finding out more, then contact us at tim@trunk.ly and we'd love to share our plans and goals and see if we can work together.

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One problem is that you log in and you have nothing to look at. You really want to have something for new users to get a great "out of the box" experience and they'll be more motivated to come back.

Totally agree - we're rethinking that first experience at the moment so that you go through a more guided process. The intent is to send you to connect your social networks, then fill out your profile, then send you to the home screen. With a priority queue for new users, we should be able to get you to a home page that is full of your links by the time you first see it.

On a lot of services you are automatically followed by the founders, like greeters at the door of a party. One idea could be to either seed some initial links (via suggested users) or add some top links (links with high frequency) from either yourself or Alex.

We threw the greeters idea away mostly because we selfishly want to choose who we follow on Trunk.ly because we find it really useful. If we follow everyone we'd have to have some other account that we 'really' use.

Seeding the links is a good idea - maybe we'll make new users automatically follow us which would achieve that goal and means they have some links in their Timeline.

"... If we follow everyone we'd have to have some other account that we 'really' use. ..."

Yeah, good point.

I love the data export/aggregation.

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