abhishekdesai

For me, it was always painfully slow to work with.

I completely agree with this point of view. If you have a niche audience with high engagement, brands get a better visibility.

The audience will be more open to ads as well if delivered right. For e.g. A sports app with a limited audience will be interested in knowing more about a particular sport equipment or a sports drink.

But let's not just throw banners here and take them to new links / apps; show them meaningful info in the app itself, when users click on the banner.

I am planning to implement this approach in my app cricheroes.in - will update on how that is working.

I highly recommend to improve your writing skills. You can start from here.

http://www.covingtoninnovations.com/mc/WriteThinkLearn.pdf

I agree. I need to become a more involved member and earn some Karma before I submit something again.

Thank you for your feedback. This really helps.

BTW I found some great insights in following article and its comments about posting on HN.

https://www.groovehq.com/blog/hacker-news

Especially a comment, which says "My point is simple. Find something worth writing about that the HN community is hungry for, and come up with a good title for the post. No need to manually market your post on twitter or to your friends. Just post and watch your real-time analytics soar."

And a few things from following article...

http://alexstechthoughts.com/post/29406022580/how-to-get-on-...

Well, that's a surprise. May be I am doing something completely wrong because the previous two submissions (apart from this one) were of the products, we have recently launched.

https://www.readboard.io

http://apps.baapps.com/preview

And that's what my question is, why HNers are not noticing things I am posting? :)

Awesome! Thank you so much for taking time out and write such a detailed feedback. Let me work on each of the points to improvise ReadBoard.

I will check "Show HN" guidelines and see if this is a right fit.

Thank you for suggesting relevant thread and yes what you said makes sense. It is unlikely that users would care about the company, who is backing the product.

Do you think it should be easier for you to retrieve this feedback?

Agree. Disqus is the best online commenting system out there. As far as it is serving all your use cases, there is not point to get rid of it.

And I too disagree with the statement "customer is always right" because in most cases, they don't know what they want so they can't possibly be right.

I am working on ReadBoard (https://www.readboard.io) - a new way to converse on the Web. And why do I think it is awesome? Because I believe it will really change the way we converse on the Web.

I recently posted three different articles on medium explaining my thought process but I would like to mention one article here.

https://medium.com/readboard-blog/online-commenting-why-do-b...

To summarise, ReadBoard lets you (the readers) own your conversations on the Web.

And when I say “owning a conversation”, that means…

1. I, as a reader, will decide on which part of the article I want to start a conversation and with whom. 2. I, as a reader, want all my conversations at one place. 3. I, as a reader, want to know what others are discussing on the same article.

ReadBoard is still in private beta but if this thinking intrigues you, here is a special link to sign up for all HackerNews users.

https://www.readboard.io/signup/hackernews

Following video (< 4 mins) explains What is ReadBoard and Why we created it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xPLhARgM90

I would really appreciate your thoughts on this. You can help me build a better product or stop me from making a product, which nobody wants!

You can also directly sign up using following link.

https://www.readboard.io/signup/hackernews

And here is the link for HackerNews community to directly sign up.

https://www.readboard.io/signup/hackernews

I really appreciate your feedback and support.

OK let me put this in other words.

"ReadBoard is the best place to find the most interesting conversations on the Web right now."

ReadBoard enables meaningful contextual conversations on the Web amongst colleagues, friends, family, and web users. The conversations are public-by-default.

The mission of ReadBoard is to bring all the conversations happening on the Web at one place so to become the default destination for millions of people looking for interesting content on the Web everyday.

The vision is to build the largest community of like-minded readers and thinkers on the Web.

https://www.readboard.io/about

Alright. I hear you. Following link may help you decide if this bar is worth paying a cover charge! :)

https://www.readboard.io/about

I understand your reluctance to give the email address. Did you check the video?

Giving more details about your app would help the community.

I agree with your point and let me forward it to the owner of this concept. Thank you for your time.

Same here.

Well said!

We haven't tried it on a slower computer yet, I believe we should try it on slower computer and connection both.

We do have a mobile app for Android so better redirect user to the android mobile app till we have the responsive site.

Thank you for the pointers.

Yes that has always been the case. Unfortunately that was a business decision from our clients which we could not get away with. This reply may help us prove our point further.

Username: test@test.com Password: test

great idea...let me do that quickly.

Nicely done Greg. I certainly see myself using this tool a lot.

Yes you are right. We are already active on Facebook and should be active on Pinterest and other platforms very soon.

Well it will take a while before I can fully understand your suggestions but I am on it :)

Hmmm yup. We have a long way to go...