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So I shut down (albeit people can still sign in) a site called favilous which was a bookmarking site. And recently I read a book called Join Me by Danny Wallace and thought it would be cool to see if that translated to the web so I created www.11kclub.com but got castigated by HN for being unoriginal, for being a rubbish idea and for the manner in which it was posted. I accept people will be negative and won't like everything that's published but I feel the old HN crowd used to seek the positive first and then give their negative feedback which was always done in a constructive way. I'm a young guy who is just trying to follow a passion and work for myself - but I find myself increasingly demotivated but hey Maybe that's more down to me than HN

It's not legislation or law - more just me wanting to impress and come up with some good ideas.

Brilliant, thanks. These are exactly the sort of simple ideas I am after.

Exactly. By greener I mean save money, which I really need to do to safeguard my job in the current turbulent financial market.

I should have been more specific. I work for a large corporate but am low down the food chain. We run a massive data centre that houses in the region of 10,000 servers. I can't go into specifics around the data centre as I'm not sure if I'm allowed! But I am specifically after good, simple green tips.

For example my company used to have screensavers on all their machines (and desktops) - I suggested we remove these and that the monitors turn straight to standby after a period of un use instead. This resulted in huge savings. This got me thinking that there must be more simple, effective green ideas for IT companies - especially in the data centre space.

As someone who is currently trying to run all 450 miles of the London Underground for charity I think that the greatest challenge of running is mental and not physical. Whilst I take his point we are built better to run long distances - I would love for there to be some analysis on the mental side of running. An animal may not be able to run 26 miles for physical reasons but I firmly believe humans can only run 26 miles if they have cause. If they are inspired. If they are so inspired that giving up is not an option. There is not a hope in hell I could run the distances I am running without being massively inspired by the cause I am running for - that for me is what sets us apart.

I find it strange that you and others question whether this article should be on HN - the fact you and others are commenting must mean that the topic grabbed you enough for you to want to read and comment on what people are saying on the subject.

Also the fact that the post has over 300 points and is comfortably the most talked about thing within the community is proof enough that topics like this should be allowed to remain within HN

We have had some interest from businesses and academic organisations - they want their own bespoke version of Favilous. So currently we are working on this so that we give these organisations the ability to have their own bespoke version of Favilous - for a fee.

That is a mistake on our part! We were thinking of charging and when we made the changes we planned on charging. Since then we have had a change of heart but have obviously forgotten to change that text - we will do that tonight!

With regard to the Delicious question - we get that a lot. Yahoo could be shutting Delicious down, which would be a bonus! But the best explanation I can give is if you are a visual person, like things laid out in a nice way and you also want to know what your friends are bookmarking then we are a good fit. We offer Twitter like functionality whereby you can follow people - and then therefore see what they are bookmarking. If PG signed up to Favilous, you could follow him and see what sites and articles he bookmarks - we think this is a cool feature which Delicious do not offer.

Clickable: http://www.favilous.com

Thanks very much - greatly appreciated

This is amazing, thanks so much for this - will definitely follow up on all of this.

Totally agree - we think we have the better product and we have loads of ideas as to how make the site better. We eventually want to change the way people date online

That's great thanks!

It hasn't detered me, that's precisely why I'm here - I want to ask a bunch of creative people ideas on how to uniquely Market something.

We appreciate we will always have competition, we are excited by that as competition leads to a better product. I just want to hear of some creative ways in which I can go after my audience

Cheers guys. I have been hammering Facebook - I have sent a message to 268 people, including my ex (brave move!) and around 40 of my friends have updated their status with it. I guess my concern is when they stop updating their status how do I reach out to the rest of the 500 million on facebook! I will continue to annoy my friends though and keep hammering them until all of them are on it

Clickable http://www.makeusdate.com

I should probably add at this point that it is a university. Reason I didn't make that clear was I didn't know whether I should but have since checked and think I am fine to mention that. It's a university with 30-40 thousand students who they hope will use the service.

Thanks for all the comments, we are amazed at how high the quotes are coming in at (again becuase it is a university these may now change) - we really appreciate all the help.

I should probably add at this point that it is a university. Reason I didn't make that clear was I didn't know whether I should but have since checked and think I am fine to mention that. It's a university with 30-40 thousand students who they hope will use the service.

Thanks for all the comments - really appreciate it.

The last point you make especially is a great one. I had not really considered that but you're right we need to set put exactly what they are getting and any changes late in the day should be made with an additional fee.

This is great thanks! We may well take you up on this. Once we have done our reading and taken on board all your comments we will go back to them with our proposal. Fingers crossed!

Thanks for this. I appreciate it is difficult to give proper advice when you don't know exact details.

Like you say we don't want to sell ourselves short but without having experience with this kind of thing before we also do not want to kill the golden goose.

Research is key, like you say, so we will get reading!

thanks again