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International markets makes sense only if there is a clear path to monetization or the potential acquirer has interests oversees
Zorbo provides a good answer: Focus. Both in what the Tool does and also what it is used for; to wit, we created Storylane to build a library of human experiences and opinions. We created Storylane to focus on what matters. This is partly achieved by the tool itself and how it works, partly by the community and how is being collectively crafted. The key operative word here is actually "being" as in we have been doing this for a couple of weeks and the focus that I am describing is pretty much in the making
You bring two very important points. I agree that creating the right community and the right precedent is Key, but I don't think you need to be closed in order to achieve this. On the contrary, I think one needs to build a system that cana achieve that And be open. From our point a view, is actually an imperative: we Must be able to do it. We simply don't like close, invite only systems. The reasons probably will fit better in another thread.
With regards to managing signal to noise: 100% agree. Figuring out how to slice and dice the content so that you see what matters to You is our number one "tactical" objective. It is actually a hard problem, but one that gets easier as you come to understand the content being created and once you can benefit from enough liquidity to slice and dice at will.
There is an "old fashion sign up" right below..
Thanks for joining in. I love that explanation too :)
Thanks for the feedback.
- Like the idea od removing what you don't like
- I hear on fixing the bar.
Again, thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts
Storylane is free for all (as in: NOT invite only but open to anyone). It is however community curated in that the best content surfaces to the top using the feedback users give.
true. this is also why we need teams and investors truly focused on the long term. oDesk had both.
Point taken, and it seems to be a common thread. We need to think about how to do this better.
The reason we care about registrations is because we look at it as a community not a marketplace for content.
This is one of my favorites
Storylane is an effort to create a library of human experiences. technically it works like a publishing platform built socially from the ground up.
Glad to hear that you liked it! And I hear you on combining the welcome emails
Posted by
jongs on Thursday October 04, 2012 @01:38AM
from the show-hn dept.
Posted by
jongs on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @07:13PM
from the storylane.com dept.
http://www.storylane.com/entrepreneurship
I put together this page of founders stories. What do you think? Feedback is welcome.
Glad you liked the design.
If you have any other thoughts or feedback please dont hesitate to sare them
Not at this point but we wont post anything on your wall without permission.
When adding people to you trusted network check/uncheck the notify with wall post check box as you see fit.
Looking forward to your 2cts
You will need an invite code. Use: protoref
Posted by
jongs on Friday September 30, 2011 @08:18PM
from the blog.reference.me dept.
We looooove data at Mixtent. Everyday we find amazingly interesting relationships between different skills and different profiles. Some of these relationships are expected and intuitive and others are surprising and enlightening.
A while a go we decided that we needed to get our findings out there. The only crucial requirement was that we could present it in a palatable format. So we turned to our good friends at KissMetrics to help us put together in an infographic format some of the interesting finding that we have.
What follows is the work of the brilliant Kissmetrics team using our data on what millions of rankings have thought us about make a great software engineer.
We hope you’ll like it!
Posted by
jongs on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @01:17PM
from the blog.kissmetrics.com dept.
Hi, I am one of the co-founders of Mixtent. Would love to get your two cents on what we launch today
Why would it make it slower?
Indexing is on but my understanding is that it only help reading, not writing on the DB
Posted by
jongs on Tuesday December 21, 2010 @04:30PM
from the self-post dept.
I have a write intensive application running on EC2. Any thoughts on how to optimize it to be able to make several thousands concurrent writes on the MySQL DB?
Is it easy to go from Phyton to PHP? and from Phyton to Java?
Posted by
jongs on Friday November 26, 2010 @07:24PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I am looking for something less verbose than Java but more robust than PHP.
I have been exposed to software as a product manager for several years and have witness how much longer coding in Java takes and how less scalable, less organized and consistent PHP is