News.YCombinator.com – Startup News Done Right
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What happened to social networking is now happening to social news. At first, there was only Digg and a few also-rans. Shoutwire and reddit have seen modest success. But now, just as niche social network sites like LinkedIn, Dogster, etc. have risen in popularity, so to are we seeing a surge in niche social news sites. One of the hottest entrants into the field is news.ycombinator.com, the brainchild of entrepreneur, Lisp hacker, and best-selling author/essayist, Paul Graham. Despite looking a lot like reddit (a YCombinator startup), news.YCombinator.com is actually written in Arc, a dialect of Lisp. But that probably doesn’t mean much to all but a few hardcore programming geeks out there. The real goldmine of News.YC is the community, links and resources featured on the site.
Link: news.ycombinator.com
About the poster: Shanti Braford has sold three web companies, grossing thousands monthly and attracting tens of thousands of visitors daily. He blogs regularly at On Web Apps.
Hrm, I would love to know more about this for my site.
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You make valid points in your article, many of which I agree with. Some I will have contemplate. That just means you made me think.