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Re:Ask HN: Review my start up please: List Central by wanderboy on Thursday July 01, 2010 @06:07PM (#1479425)
The first thing I did after reading this comment was check your profile creation date and your karma. To each his own, but I was totally unimpressed with this site.

I judge "start-ups" (really a Web app) in this case by a few metrics, but the first test is always this: does this start-up solve a problem? I don't think it does. Anyone who wants to create a top ten list can do it from any blogging platform and several other sites that do exactly what this one does.

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Re:Ask HN: Review my start up please: List Central by Scott_MacGregor on Thursday July 01, 2010 @07:12PM (#1479579)
To me, Twitter did not really seem to solve an existing problem at first, but people liked it, and it caught on. Same with Farmville. Personally I think the site has a good foundation as far as look and feel for a site aimed at the general public. This is just a new out of the box site. Let's see where they iterate to in 6 to 9 months. I think they have a good foundation to build on.
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Re:Ask HN: Review my start up please: List Central by wanderboy on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @10:44PM (#1496300)
I can't believe I was such a dick in that comment above. Must have been a bad day. I still don't like the service, but I shouldn't have taken that karma police tone on.
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