ObamaCTO - conceived, implemented, and launched in less than 4 hours
obamacto.org
obamacto.org
By "launched," he means "Signed up for UserVoice"
It's not a bad idea, but the title makes the entire thing feel extremely pathetic.
I'm starting to really wish I could downvote stories. Until this week, it never seems like a necessity. Now, we're flooded with stories that just don't seem like Hacker News. And I feel weird flagging them, since they aren't outright spam stories, they just aren't Hacker News.
This isn't as bad as the Dashboard story, though. That one's getting a wee bit out of hand.
The Dashboard story is especially annoying because it's already been closed; a number of irrefutable arguments have been made discounting any justification regarding the incident. There is no longer a reason to attempt to justify it. Yet, they won't stop. Or they attempt a half justification, half apology, and we all know which of those is the "real" one.
I have probably raged more today on HN than any previous day.
[1] quoting somebody, ha, ha.
Although, it looks like it is really just a skinned UserVoice forum, still a pretty good idea though.
We're more focused specifically on dialogue between company and customers (or employees) whereas SlinkSet is more generic and has more tools for aggregating 3rd party content instead of user ideas.
"I suggest the CTO... encourage adoption of Agile software development practices"
WTF?
Not sure I'm at all impressed as a hacker, but I do like the fact that it's easy to get started with random communities and places.