Ask HN: Any space for a micro-website for portable discussions.

Re:Ask HN: Any space for a micro-website for portable discus... by mechanical_fish on Saturday August 04, 2012 @11:00AM (#4338616)

A pity about their clueless home page. Please tell me what you're going to give me in exchange for my email address.

I understand the importance to a business of reaping the email address up-front. But there needs to be a clear quid pro quo. For all I can tell from the home page, I'm signing up for Amway, and the next message I get will be from one of my dear cousins trying to shame me into buying some overpriced soap.

So can anyone here tell me what Branch is about?

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Re:Ask HN: Any space for a micro-website for portable discus... by sherjilozair on Saturday August 04, 2012 @11:10AM (#4338647)

You could check out bulletin.branch.com for some context.

This serves as a demo of what they are trying to do. http://branch.com/b/obvious-and-branch-partner-up

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Re:Ask HN: Any space for a micro-website for portable discus... by mechanical_fish on Saturday August 04, 2012 @02:31PM (#4339218)

I hit that link before griping. [EDIT: the bulletin's root link, that is, not the deep link you provided - thanks for that.] I was that kind, at least.

It links to a blog. This margin is too small to contain my full lecture about why you do not want to introduce your product to the world via a blog, but here's the condensed version: The top of the Bulletin is an out-of-context article about Twitter integration with the Mystery Product. Then the next half-dozen entries are beautiful photos of people being hired to work on the Mystery Product. Then I got bored with scrolling and gave up.

I'm not going to hunt for your call to action. If I wanted puzzles I'd be training on http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/

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