Show HN: hipchan, an anonymous sharing site built with 1 page js
The story: after seeing this on HN http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1940089 and seeing a comment about 4chan, I decided that I could build something that embraces the 4chan idea. Even though the story today is 'social' I really think that anonymity will continue to have a place in future communities.
It was supposed to be a weekend hack, and it was! 95% of the features were worked out in the weekend following, but somehow testing lasted till today...
Primary feature: The ability to have * boards. For example: http://hipchan.com/#hn
The Tech: Mongolab/jquery/pusherapp There's only 1 html page and everything is done via ajax.
For the niche I'm targeting/Branding: Still a little uncertain how that's going to work out or how it'll be in general. Advice on this would be great.
You should try out the site: http://hipchan.com/
I definitely agree with you that anonymity's never going away, and _something_'s going to eat 4chan's lunch at some point in the future, in light of moot's complete lack of interest in improvement and features.
Currently the site domain makes a reference to hipsters, but I don't know if that's a worthwhile niche.
I'm not sure what to do now, this is just entirely a hack without direction.
Anyone have ideas? What would you do if you were in charge of this?
Thanks.
The most expensive thing will probably be the pusherapp subscription. Right now it's free but tbh it looks expensive. I'm always investigating alternative solutions, there are several services that look way cheaper that I would switch to whenever pusher starts charging.
Thanks!