cw12574

Yeah, agreed. I wouldn't say the most upvoted posts are always the highest quality posts.

Hey man, thanks again for finding this. I've open-sourced the project now: https://github.com/cw12574/anotherdarntodolist

I'm trying to fix the 2 vulnerabilities that you mentioned. I'm pretty new to this though so am struggling a little. Is there any chance there's any way I could message you privately to ask a couple of questions?

Oh wow, thanks for finding this and letting me know. Have taken it offline until I can fix it. I'll open source it tomorrow, read the docs above and see if I can work out a fix.

Thanks for the kind words! Yes - very good point. I'll add some more info for next time.

Ah, thanks on both points. Will change.

Hi guys, a few people asked to see some of the content before signing up, so I've made it possible.

The idea of the platform is that every month everyone pays $5 and gets 50 NiceCoin (which can be sold back to the platform for the same price at any time).

So every time you get upvoted someone is giving you 1 NiceCoin (which is 10c).

Sorry to post this again, but it got moderated down a couple of weeks ago.

We've had a good group of users since last time this was posted, and there've been some really interesting discussions on there. Come and join us!

I think you're right - these are risks. One thing we've done is build it so you can't just post (a status). All you can do is ask a question or start a discussion. The answers/comments could then be low effort and emotional, but we'll rely on the community to determine this and outvote those answers.

Good question. One of the things we've done is build it so you can't post a status/photo/video to build a following that way. All you can do is post either a question or a discussion topic, or comment on/answer one of those.

So far this has meant that the influencer-types haven't taken all the credit and all the money, and that the points you generate are all about how useful your answers are in the context of the discussion/question. We're going to keep monitoring this and make adjustments where necessary, but right now we're happy with the balance.

Hi there, appreciate your opinion. Shame to hear you're not interested, because your voice could be valuable as the platform's culture develops.

Our belief is that the average human is not a bad person, so if we leave moderation to them, bad people will be removed. We're taking a wait-and-see approach rather than proactively treating our users like criminals despite their current positivity and respect for each other.

Every decision on the platform's direction will be taken with the user's utility in mind. We don't see selling user data as being helpful for users, so we won't be doing this.

Sorry to repost. This was up for 20 mins last week then got taken down by the moderators (I think because there was a waitlist). We've removed the waitlist and would be grateful for feedback.

Thanks for the feedback. Now changed.

Thanks to everyone for the feedback and signups. We agree that there are lots of potential pitfalls to avoid. We have plenty of ideas, but I guess everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.

This was no.1 in Show HN because it seemed to be generating quite a lot of interest (and, quite rightly, scepticism), and for some reason has been downgraded to no.63. I feel like this perfectly illustrates the need for a platform where the majority of users aren't overruled by moderators and algorithms.

Thanks!

Haha yeah so unoriginal

My co-founder and I were looking to start working in an office for 3 days per week, and found it annoying that we were essentially having to pay for 5 days per week.

I made this so we could try to make some money from the 2 days that we won't be using the desks.

Thought it could be helpful for others. Grateful for feedback.