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Should we add upvoting to wibba?

Wibba allows you to discover and share products quickly and easily.It's a simple app developed in django.Open an account or sign in with twitter - add links to products you like. Others can follow you and vice versa.We allow others to like products, but don't aggregate them into top product lists.Should we?http://wibba.com

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understood. im not sure how we could scrape twitter for peoples likes. we don't have that semantic capability.

so are you using as it requires active participation it will be impossible to get traction?

thx for this, its not about affiliate marketing though

Review our startup: Wibba.com - discover and share great products

We built wibba to scratch our own itch.We need somewhere to discover what things others are buying.I want to know which new apps scobleizer is using on his iPhone, which books PG is reading on his iPad, which tracks our DJ friends are spinning on their turntables.Wibba is a simple clean app which makes discovering and sharing products quick and easy. We've also built in commenting and liking...

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Re:Review our startup: Wibba.com - discover and share great products on Wednesday September 22, 2010 @04:41PM (#1717448)
thats a great idea, thanks dude
Re:Review our startup: Wibba.com - discover and share great products on Wednesday September 22, 2010 @04:35PM (#1717423)
thx, do you think it makes sense to add voting? we're not after a digg style model at all - hate how those sites are gamed so much by spammers.

not sure we need to limit submissions - you only follow who you want to hear from, if someone drives you mad - you can unfollow like twitter.

thanks so much for the feedback

Review our startup: Wibba.com - discover and share great products

we've spent some time developing http://wibba.com as a platform which makes it quick and easy to discover and share cool products online and offline.share products you think are cool or follow others to keep updated with things that they're loving.this is a early alpha.you can share product links, follow others and be followed, link with twitter and more.there is so much noise out there its...

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