Re:Review my startup - Quote Feed (step 2)
by DanielBMarkham on Monday March 15, 2010 @02:25PM
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My original idea was to have a place like HN where, instead of reading titles, I could read the quick excerpts from the latest articles and news events all over the web. I also didn't want a simple voting system (insert long discussion about mob voting here) and instead went with a tagged learning system.
Later on it occurred to me that social hooks and app-store integration might really help with growth.
Here's an idea: If people could wrap quotes in some tag like [qfeed]a good quote[/qfeed] in media outlets all over the internet, like Disqus comments for a particular blog or in reply to the quoted post on HN.
And then a spider came along and pulled the [qfeed] bit and submitted it to quote-feed.
It wouldn't work well for comment-less sites like wikipedia, but it would for "quick excerpts from the latest articles"
I'm interested in what problem this solves compared to say, Tumblr + WikiQuote? It isn't clear what the specific value proposition to a user is.
When I think of Friend Feed I think of importing all my "stuff" into one place, is Quote Feed supposed to import quotes from all over the place into one place?