Re:Ask HN: My side project is ramen-profitable. What do I do...
by onli on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @08:47AM
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Thank you for your advice.
I understand that I should take them and think further about them, that the questions are not necessarily for the here and now. I'll anyway give you my initial thoughts.
* I really disagree on the contract thing. That attitude can't work in my country, and always needs a big personal finance and security net.
* To not expand seems to be the consensus, and I'm convinced
* The people I can reach (via forums and reddit) are mainly gamers. It is also where the idea of the site is coming from: to get the best possible performance, which for an office or minecraft pc is not really important. My impression so far is that the people who build their custom PCs are gamers, with some workstation for programmers (that often want to game on them as well) in the mix.
* You assume correctly. Though currently it is the markdown code used on reddit that is mainly used (to a big part by myself when going to the user asking there for builds). In the share widget there are also buttons for facebook, twitter and g+ that are supposed to enable sharing configurations, from my stats facebook and twitter are used a tiny little bit.
A big problem with going into forums and having the site used there: Every forum has their own standards of what is a good PC (and some are ridiculous faithful to their ways), and the big german forums have a cooperation with geizhals, a price search engine.
I think that the last point is the core point, to improve the answer "how do people find the site".
I understand that I should take them and think further about them, that the questions are not necessarily for the here and now. I'll anyway give you my initial thoughts.
* I really disagree on the contract thing. That attitude can't work in my country, and always needs a big personal finance and security net.
* To not expand seems to be the consensus, and I'm convinced
* The people I can reach (via forums and reddit) are mainly gamers. It is also where the idea of the site is coming from: to get the best possible performance, which for an office or minecraft pc is not really important. My impression so far is that the people who build their custom PCs are gamers, with some workstation for programmers (that often want to game on them as well) in the mix.
* You assume correctly. Though currently it is the markdown code used on reddit that is mainly used (to a big part by myself when going to the user asking there for builds). In the share widget there are also buttons for facebook, twitter and g+ that are supposed to enable sharing configurations, from my stats facebook and twitter are used a tiny little bit.
A big problem with going into forums and having the site used there: Every forum has their own standards of what is a good PC (and some are ridiculous faithful to their ways), and the big german forums have a cooperation with geizhals, a price search engine.
I think that the last point is the core point, to improve the answer "how do people find the site".