Re:Ask HN: Review my Startup (Idea)
by pedalpete on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @03:48PM
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Getting people to use it is FAR from impossible.
Let's look at it a bit of a different way. If I understand it correctly, this could be used to identify trolls and such. Makes me think about the NIN rant of last week.
So, let's say you built your first go of this on top of something like the Disqus API, and convince a few sites to use it.
Maybe create a few simple plug-ins for forum services, etc.
All far from impossible.
Don't go the 'boil the ocean' route where you try to grab everything at once. Piggybacking on OpenID is a decent idea (as mentioned already), but personally, i believe that OpenID is far from a success (it isn't mainstream yet). You could potentially create a system that piggybacks on Facebook Connect, Google Friend Connect, etc. and as long as you have a simple enough way for to hook into the service, I think you could get some traction.
Let's look at it a bit of a different way. If I understand it correctly, this could be used to identify trolls and such. Makes me think about the NIN rant of last week.
So, let's say you built your first go of this on top of something like the Disqus API, and convince a few sites to use it.
Maybe create a few simple plug-ins for forum services, etc.
All far from impossible. Don't go the 'boil the ocean' route where you try to grab everything at once. Piggybacking on OpenID is a decent idea (as mentioned already), but personally, i believe that OpenID is far from a success (it isn't mainstream yet). You could potentially create a system that piggybacks on Facebook Connect, Google Friend Connect, etc. and as long as you have a simple enough way for to hook into the service, I think you could get some traction.