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Comment by ArekDymalski | Hacker News Reader

Mixed with Glipho perhaps?

Actually, in my earlier response, I missed the term 'mixed' in your comment.

Having realized that, I agree with you. I think it is right to characterize what we are doing at ShareCred as a mix of HN and Glipho (of course with additional features, enabled by the combination).

Thank you,

Yeah, that's what I meant. Such combination is an interesting one. However the critical thing (besides design) is how are you going to attract the required mass of users to keep it vivid. So far there's little incentive to put my content there, and without content there's no incentive to visit the site. The loop is closed. Maybe you could consider an easy way for users to automatically put their content from other places, via RSS for example? That way you could focus on the discovery not content creation.

Agreed that there is a catch-22 here (as I would imagine with any social network - if our friends are not on the network, what is the point in me joining?). As I mentioned in my post, it took me a while to join Facebook. And how long LinkedIN has been around, it feels like only the last couple of years people have been 'regular' on LinkedIN.

Having said the above, I wholeheartedly agree with you. In fact, we are working on a Wordpress plugin to let users cross-post to ShareCred simultaneously. RSS could be another great way, but we will have to work out ownership.

Frankly, I am glad that the discussion is about how to attract users than 'the concept does not make sense' - which was the first hurdle we wanted to get through.

Now that we are through it, I truly appreciate any ideas you (and others) can share.

That is a very good observation. We do feel that Glipho is close to our use cases, but not where we want to take it ultimately. I think some fundamentals are different between us.

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